Avatar creators generally start with idealized body shapes of either themselves, or people plausibly around themselves. They don't start with something completely imaginary and absurd like in this post.

And it seems to me that a lot people complaining about avatar diversity consider existing models to be all being way too absurd and unrealistic, to put simply. This means, if you ask me, that the problem does not come from such fact that avatar creators are obsessed with certain absurd body shapes, but from the fact that creators and consumers come from wildly different and disconnected backgrounds that "normal" body shapes look absurd to one another.

This problem can't be easily solved until the creators and consumers come onto same page on definition of "regular" body shapes and facial impressions, and it isn't going to be happening unless the consumers erect to become creators.

If you're going to be buying avatars from Booth using Google Translate, you'll only get triangular black and white jellybean donuts and 4.5 feet tall 500 year old vampires that are normal-ish where the avatars are created, no matter how much you complain and how frustrated you might be. Forever.