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- Apr 11, 2022
For almost a decade now we have been stuck with circle profile pictures on social media and a lot of the other remaining sites. The only exceptions are here, Steam, and a couple smaller forums that still chug onwards. The circle is inferior to the square in every single way. No image format is a circle so trying to fit a square image into a circle hole just doesn't work.
In my research the only reason I see given is that a photograph of a face fits better in a circle as a face is sort of circle-ish (if you are not Dong Long Gone). I find this reason bullshit though as it's harder to make out the details of a face without the blank space around the head you get in a square, a circle feels like you are squinting at someone through a keyhole.
I also wondered if it had something to do with touch screens since a finger tip is also sort of a circle but then the app icons are still a square (a rounded square usually) and a square would be easier to tap on anyway.
It also looks really ugly when all of the other elements that make up a website are squares and then you have circles for profile pictures/avatars. If you look at screenshots of old Twitter and Youtube it looks so much better in every way and form.
So people of QnA, lonely souls like myself, all searching meaning in a meaningless world, what dear reader is the reason we are stuck with circles? Thanks in advance.
In my research the only reason I see given is that a photograph of a face fits better in a circle as a face is sort of circle-ish (if you are not Dong Long Gone). I find this reason bullshit though as it's harder to make out the details of a face without the blank space around the head you get in a square, a circle feels like you are squinting at someone through a keyhole.
I also wondered if it had something to do with touch screens since a finger tip is also sort of a circle but then the app icons are still a square (a rounded square usually) and a square would be easier to tap on anyway.
It also looks really ugly when all of the other elements that make up a website are squares and then you have circles for profile pictures/avatars. If you look at screenshots of old Twitter and Youtube it looks so much better in every way and form.
So people of QnA, lonely souls like myself, all searching meaning in a meaningless world, what dear reader is the reason we are stuck with circles? Thanks in advance.
