Twitter changes its default profile picture

After deciding on a figure, we began our refinements. We had to determine how to bring inclusivity into our single default profile photo, given that we don’t require people to specify their gender on Twitter. We felt that the circle of the head in the figure still seemed masculine, even though it technically had no design characteristics to indicate that it was a man. So for inspiration, we looked at how women are portrayed in generic, wayfinding iconography, such as bathroom signs, and noticed that the only difference between the sexes is the shape of their clothing.
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Regardless, people have come to associate the circle head with masculinity, and because of this association, we felt that it was important to explore alternate head shapes. We reviewed many variations of our figure, altering both the head and shoulders to feel more inclusive to all genders. When the shoulders were wider, the image felt overly masculine, so we decreased the width of the shoulders and adjusted the height of the figure.
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https://blog.twitter.com/2017/rethinking-our-default-profile-photo

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So now you have to upload an egg? :D
 
FoXtroT said:
Holy hell, and to think the amount of money those okes are being paid to bull**** like that!
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And this is why Twitter is going to hell in a handbasket. Can you just image the man/woman/transgender/bicurious hours involved in that gender-neutral non-circle ... and it was all wasted, because no woman in the world wants an upper body that looks like that :D
 
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