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Dollz, Cartoon Dolls or Pixel Dolls are small pixelated images, generally of people. They are mainly used online as avatars, signatures or just displayed as artwork on personal webpages. more...

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Dolls range in size from being a few pixels high to a few hundred pixels high. Generally, dolls are human figures (mainly female, but male dolls are becoming increasingly more common), although there have been instances of animals being named "dolls." Dolls are generally dressed, and come in a wide range of styles. Bases are the template upon which dolls are created - the naked human form with no hair.

People who create dolls are called dollers or dollists. The community is well inter-linked because of both message board communities and the concept of "adoption." Adoption is where a doller displays a favoured doll that was created by someone else upon their website, with credit and a link to the other's site or email. Adoption is not an option with bases.

"Dolling" has become a widespread Internet phenomenon, spawning numerous websites, communities, forums and other related items. Some entrepreneuristic people have expanded into the commercial world with their digital art and sell their graphic images as either clipart or on merchandise. However, dolling is more of a personal hobby for many.

History

The roots of this phenomenon are in Paperdolls, which are paper figures with a base body to which clothes, hairstyles and accessories can be attached. The first digital version of this concept was the Kisekae Set System, invented in 1991. The first known instances of cartoon dolls used as online avatars were introduced in 1995 on a visual chat client called The Palace by a Palace user named artgrrl (later known as shattered innocents). The first dollz were simplistic, starting from a generic base consisting of 44 by 44-pixel "props" that were hand-drawn in the Editing palette of the Palace program. The first dollz were generally cartoon-like in appearance and restricted to only a small number of poses.

The original "prep" doll was created by a South Park Palace user which, at the time was known as "Starr" who created the very first base from an image of Madonna hitchhiking naked , from her since revoked "sex book". This doll made her very first appearance among the Sk8ers in the graveyard of the South Park chat, and was passed to a user who went by "ImpyVampire" something or rather, who made her into a goth. From there, the doll was passed along and along, sk8er faces were added to them, and make up, wigs, paper doll like clothing, as well. She soon became what you know today as the Preps.

At first, these doll-like avatars were called "little people," then "skaters" or "sk8ers." Another Palace user named Rainman was responsible for the proliferation of the skater dollz, editing and distributing them by the thousands. The Palace "dressup" script helped in distributing the dollz from user to user, with each user editing the props to customize their doll. Because dollz were generally worn by younger people, some Palaces started banning their use in an attempt to restrict membership to adults. Modifications to the dollz were called "editz" and contests were held daily on many of the Palaces, with competitions based on style of outfit, color schemes, music themes, or accessories. Eventually, there were entire Palaces devoted only to doll-based avatars.

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