furtech: (acorn)
furtech ([personal profile] furtech) wrote2005-09-16 06:10 pm

Is there a term for it?

The net is crazy about giving names to behaviors, types of people and actions. Troll...sniper...L337...etc.

So is there a term for people who use particularly gross or obscene icons in a context that is out of place? Or a word for that type of icon (which is disturbing or gross-- in a Jr. High kind of way)?

I was curious because I've seen a couple of them in forums/groups that are relatively innocuous and all-ages. It's almost like they're -daring- someone to complain so that they can call them square (or whatever the term is now).

[identity profile] furtech.livejournal.com 2005-09-18 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
I think you've come closest to pegging them. They're edgy-posers who want others to see them as such. But, IMO, doing that with a user icon is like wearing a t-shirt that says, "OMG, I'm SO COOL!"