Yeah, there weren't avis and items like there are on Voltra. Your avatar/profile picture was just an image that you chose to upload and use as your avatar.
The site had items and badges though. Badges went under your avatar, and you could have have up to 4 displayed in a 2x2 square. They were rounded square images. There were four ways to earn badges. Most users displayed badges of their favorite idols or groups. The images for these badges were voted on once a year by the fans of the groups/artists. You got to choose one badge when you reached 100 posts, and then you could choose 1 more for every 100 posts up to 500 posts/5 badges. After that you could get a new badge for every 250 posts, so you'd get badge 6 at 750 posts and so on.
Another way to get certain badges was by using the forum currency. The badges you could buy this way were for things like anime and video game characters. Forum currency was one of the prizes we gave away during games. The third type of badges was only purchasable with event currency. Event currency was used as prizes for certain games and events that were usually hosted by event staff. Users could put in a request for the event staff to sponsor their event/game though, and they could be sponsored with either regular forum currency, items, or event currency. And the last type of badge was just given out as a prize of its own. For example, there was a badge of the site mascot dressed as a bunny for the Easter event winners. It was also possible to earn a unique badge that a user could choose their own image for.
Then there were items which went under the badges. I forget how many of these you could have displayed at a time, but these were smaller images of various things and some were exclusively purchased with event currency. There were some unique items as well that users could pick their own image for.
The second site was mostly the same minus the event currency.
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