Introduction

While users on social media platforms with a more personal fronts, like Facebook or Instagram, almost always use depictions of themselves as their profile image, on a less personal site like Tumblr users may choose to obscurely or humorously depict themselves since the focus of the site is less on interperson interaction and more on the sort of content users curate or create. 

This unique form of self-representation is mostly intended to obscure the user's followers' knowledge of the user, but it is also generally carefully chosen to send specific messages about the person who runs the blog. 

Amongst the people I follow (and as such, the sample chosen), there is little if any effect on image choice from gender, age, or location. Instead, patterns emerge mostly from the sort of content shared on the blog.