I know using a question as title for a post may be not “right”, but about this issue i want to talk about i have more doubts than trues, specially because it’s more a question of opinion than a question of reality.

Possibly i can say i’m kinda old in Second Life©, more than two years, not sure if is old, but is enough to perceive some kind of evolution, or change around.

I have the feeling something is changing gradually in the community, something i can call “standardization”. I have the feeling like some of the so called “sub-cultures” are disappearing, or being less visible. Furries, tinies, robots, etc. I see more and more “humans” and less “different” avatars. Even inside the “human” group i perceive this normalization i was talking about, in tones of skin, styles of shapes, clothing, hair, …

Someway i think something the old diversity is lost in a big group of Mediterranean look guys and stylish girls wearing them all fantastic outfits created by the SLfashion gurus. Of course i still see some really imaginative avatars around, some furries and some tinies, but i have the feeling they are not so much as before. Ok, maybe is just a feeling and maybe this is caused by the environment i’m exploring or the people i have social contact inworld. I’m not sure, so this post is a way to express this ideas and also know what others think.

It may be all that i just said, and it also may be a reality caused by the discrimination existing to the different avatars. I saw some places where the visit of furry avatars was forbidden (not only some clubs, also some other places), i saw “human” avatars insulting a furry and calling him very bad things, including comments about the sexuality or the preferences (including animalism) of him/her.

I don’t have the moral superiority to preach, and i don’t pretend to do it, i just think there was more avatar diversity before and i miss it. I don’t pretend someone to change, i am what i like to be and i’m sure everybody is the rest, but i’m not talking about individual behaviours, is about group behaviour.

All this post is rambling, is a feeling, is just something i have in mind sometimes. I wanted to share it and i’d like you to share your opinion about it.