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I was shocked to find them using bitmojis at all. I find them terribly off putting visually. Not a big deal of course, but until I installed Snapchat I hadn't seen one in years.



Snap (then Snapchat) acquired them back in 2016

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/tech-news/snapcha...


I have a feeling that My AI's weird avatar is one of the many variables as to why he was pushed back by users. It is a smug looking character with purple skin. To me, the avatar enters the uncanny valley.


You can change the avatar and name.


Defaults matter. You could change Clippy to be Albert Einstein on a bicycle, but we all remember it as Clippy.




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