What do I notice?

• Female watchers tend to have non-human designs as icons. Male watchers tend to have more typically-expected profile pictures.

• Character art is popular. My avatar is of a character, too, so I'm in that group.

• A noticeably large amount of people use external images from pop culture, despite my impressions of the site inspiring personal creations. I suppose being a Pokémon artist helps with that.

• There is a sharp drop-off between the first three categories of avatar and the rest. The images we may expect to be popular on other forms of social media--photography and icons--are of less popularity here.

•• A mere three avatars are of real-life images, and out of those, one of those is a photo of an amigurumi (crochet toy), showing the artist's talent. As expected, avatars tend toward being art rather than being the artist.

•• Two of the avatars I interpret as being a brand of some sort. There are many more independent artists than 'establishments'.

• Twelve of the avatars are of pixel art, seven of the avatars are of Pokémon art, and three avatars are in the intersection of pixel art and Pokémon art. That's a pretty large number for my sample size.

• Most watchers display an avatar. This can mean one of few things:

•• Most people who make an account on deviantArt are artists. There is a high ratio of producers to consumers.

•• People who watch me are artists, perhaps seeking my art as an inspiration or reference. As a pixel artist, there may be 'lurkers' who view my art passively and not actively to scrutinize it.