If you’re a regular Twitter user, you have probably had an annoying encounter with a user whose identity was kept conveniently hidden by the default egg avatar. The avatar is usually used by people who enjoy bullying and trolling innocent tweeters or just users who can’t be bothered with changing their profile images. Either way, it’s usually very convenient as they’re the ones who can comfortably be jerks, knowing they’ll get away with it without revealing who they are.
Following continuous reports by users of harassment from these eggs, the popular social media platform made the decision to swap the eggs for bland “gender-balanced figures” and people are in no way satisfied.
See some of the best reactions
WHAT THE FUCK DID TWITTER DO why am I not an Egg where is my egg why am I a generic youtube/facebook no profile image Twitter stop these are
— Tom Ratt (@jxtom) March 31, 2017
Since Twitter has gotten rid of the egg icons, I guess this clip is appropriate pic.twitter.com/4hMSewpHnC
— ?Roya the Cool Dude? (@rsdream12) April 1, 2017
TWITTER Those egg accounts that spew venomous insults all day-
ME You banned them?
TWITTER -we made their avatars look like car headrests— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) March 31, 2017
Twitter has changed all egg avatars to silhouettes of people, ensuring you blame the human race for the abuse rather than innocent birds. pic.twitter.com/X2QIIQz3Vb
— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) March 31, 2017
Me: This site is a hideous avalanche of hate speech and death threats from Nazi Twitter eggs
Twitter: that's terrible. let's change the egg
— Eldritch Costello (@acekatana) March 31, 2017
We’re not exactly sure what they were expecting, but making the avatars look like ‘car headrests’ certainly wasn’t among the options most users had expected.