New World Notes: Take the Crowded Virtual World #NoAvatarSocialDistance Challenge!

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Take the Crowded Virtual World #NoAvatarSocialDistance Challenge!

Here's a quarantine-related challenge that isn't specifically about the Coronavirus, but instead, is about what what we've left behind in recent weeks -- and what virtual worlds of all kinds now make possible: The chance to be in crowded spaces with many people.

Presenting the "No Social Distance" Crowded Avatars Challenge! Here's the rules:

Take screenshots of user avatars posing together in a virtual world -- the more, the better.
Be creative about the crowding! Recreate a movie scene or something from current events, or whatever comes to mind when you read the words "no social distance".
Despite the fact that some of you read the last rule and thought, "giant orgy!", please keep submissions PG-13.
Strongly recommend pics without masks, PPE, and other pandemic-related paraphernalia. (Not having to worry about COVID-19 in virtual worlds being the whole point of this challenge!)
Upload your picture to Flickr or Instagram and tag it "#NoAvatarSocialDistance".
Post a link to the Flickr/Instagram picture in Comments of this post and include your name for credit and award (see below).
Deadline: Image link must be posted to Comments of this post by May 5th, 12:01am PST!

New World Notes image curator Cajsa Lilliehook and I will select our 3-5 favorites based on amount of avatars and artistic quality, and put the final winner up for a reader poll (assuming we get at least three great submissions). And to make things a bit more interesting, I'll award L$10,000 to the grand prize winner.

Questions? Post them in Comments too!

Posted on Tuesday, April 21, 2020 at 03:31 PM in Contests | Permalink

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Hamlet, I've seen you post and tweet about social distancing enough to feel safe in the assumption that you're as concerned by the "liberate" movement as most of us are. Encouraging people to use a hashtag that, to the millions of social media users who don't read this blog, is going to sound (and look, if it's pictures of characters grouped together) like it's anti-social-distancing is terribly counter-productive.

Posted by: Taylor | Tuesday, April 21, 2020 at 05:51 PM

That's a very good point, thank you! I've changed the hashtag (with additional advice from Cajsa) to "#NoAvatarSocialDistance" and tweaked the title to make sure no one misunderstands. (Hopefully.)

Posted by: Wagner James Au | Tuesday, April 21, 2020 at 09:42 PM