Neopets avatars

A very popular part of the online game, Neopets, Neopets avatars are little squares that appear next to your name on the chat boards (and they are also shown when your username is looked up in the Search bar). They display an image, or an image with text. Most of the time, they are animated. There are many ways to get them: they include equipping your Neopet with a certain weapon, using a Morphing Potion on your Neopet, having a certain item in your inventory, etc. You start out with a group of non-secret avatars, but you can collect "secret" ones around the site using the aforementioned methods. The number of "secret" avatars you have collected will be displayed in your userlookup (or profile), and there is also a high score table where players can earn a trophy and a special "Avatar Collector" avatar for collecting the most "secret" avatars. There is even a special chat board specifically for discussion of avatars and avatar collectors.

While a lot of fun to collect, many players blame the arrival of "secret" avatars for the downfall of the Neopian economy. A formerly-affordable item will rise to hundreds of thousands of Neopoints (the site's currency) just because an avatar was released to go with it. An example is an item known as a "Quadrapus": it was worth 20,000 Neopoints at the start, which is quite cheap. However, now you cannot get one for under 350,000 Neopoints at the time of writing, because it can give you an avatar. This can be very frustrating, as it is difficult for the average user to earn Neopoints on the site, and even more difficult for them to purchase items when sellers get greedy and inflate such items to immense proportions over a square of pixels. Before avatars arrived, many items were more affordable than they are today. One item- 200,000 Neopoints before its avatar was released- has even risen to 30 million Neopoints (at the time of writing)!

The Neopets Avatar Chat (abbreviated AC), or, technically the "Avatars/Neosignatures board" is the first board listed on the NeoBoards page. (it's arranged alphabetically.) The board is well-known as the following topics:

1. Lending Neopets or items for avatars, usually in exchange for collateral or another avatar item or pet.

2. When a new avatar comes out, many n00bs spamming by posting topics asking how to get it.

3. A place to invite people to private Avatar Guilds.

4. A somewhat replacement for the Neopets General Chat. There are many chat boards on the AC where people chat, rarely about avatars.

5. A board for dumb games like Avatar Simon or Avatar Survivor.

A place where no-lives go to lurk and flame others because they have nothing else to do besides sulk in there broken homes. Usually it consists of a bunch of individuals who attempt to collect virtual avatars, create supposedly "elite guilds" and brag when they get lent ELUSIVE ITEM AVATARS. They tend to overuse the "~" (tilde) and add "-eh" to the end of words. They use bright fonts that could make an epileptic kid seize. This is also a place known for frequent, but failed CG and Scamming attempts.

1)A evil place in the NeoPets Forums where beggers go to whenever they want a pet / item.
2)Flooding with people shownig off or aksing how to get the new avatar.

Often called the "AC", this is where the wannabe 1337 neo-players hang out. Known for its rivalry with the BDC, or Neopets Battledome Chat, mindless chat is prevalent here, as well as chatspeak.

The AC doesn't care about spam at all, you can pretty much get away with anything you want there. Unless of course you insult a regular, which practically gets you flamed and banished for good by the other regulars there.

This is located on the Neopets.com message boards. Full of people who are illiterate and do not know what the shift key is for. They spend their time "collecting" Neopets avatars, but people in other boards tend to have more than the ACers themselves.
Although the word "avatar" is right at the top of the chat on every page, none can seem to spell the word properly.