So you go to take a photo for your passport. You specially put on a clean shirt, comb your hair, smile. And the photographer says:
- "Don't smile. Don't turn around. Don't breathe. Don't live at all. I'll click now."
- "Click."
- "That's it, next one!"

Then you get your passport - open it... and begin to suspect that your photo was replaced with some sullen suspect from a crime chronicle.

Avatar: a place where you are a god of Photoshop
But humanity did not give up. We invented the Internet. And then — social media.
And with them came it — reincarnation through an avatar!

Now you can be anyone. A model. A philosopher. A cat in a hat. Or that mysterious person in the twilight who looks away because the front camera betrayed him.
📸 Passport photo: "Woman, 34, tired of life and the tax office"
🖼️ Avatar: "Lady of eternal summer, between Bali and Paris"
📸 Passport: "Man, 29, suspected of stealing his own mood"
🖼️ Avatar: "Digital nomad, drinks smoothies on the roof and reads Haruki Murakami"
The greatness of an avatar
An avatar is a way to tell the world: "I am not like in the passport. I am better. I am in focus. I have a filter. I chose this angle myself!"
And if it's from a photo shoot where you were spun like a burrito, lit up like the Mona Lisa, and your face was polished to the state of porcelain - oh, that's digital magic.
Shame on the passport, like on the avatar!
So don't worry if in your passport photo you look more like a hungover fired dwarf wizard. The main thing is that in the avatar you are yourself. Or, at least, the version of yourself that doesn't scare the bank employees. A little advice:
If you are asked to show a document somewhere and you bashfully hide the photo in your passport - just show them your avatar.
- "Who is this?"
- "This is me. When I got enough sleep. And believed in myself."