With my Death Bacon avatar, I will single-handedly change the culture of the message board, from an enclave of advanced intellectual discourse, inquiry and exploration, into a pit of lulz, lolcats, memes, and one-line quips written in textspeak! MWAH HA HA HA HA!
“Oh, look. Dude’s got a cat. Let’s see what he wrote…” = normal person
Whereas, the horrible attention whore thinks: "Ooooooooh, right now somebody’s probably looking at my cat avatar… and now they’re magnifying it somehow… and they can see that it’s not just a cat, but a LOLcat with a Death Bacon hoodie on… and they’re tweeting that I’m awesome… and someone somewhere mighta just posted on Facebook that she’s got a crush on “that LOLcat with a Death Bacon hoodie.”
Dude, you’re the one who started the thread; he who seemingly has intellectual issues with goofy pictures but not goofy monikers, like “bucketybuck,” for instance.