S4S (Sign for Sign) -
Making a myspace fan sign for someone with the expectation that he or she will reciprocate by making you a fan sign.
The purpose of a fan sign is to make you appear as though you have fans. Typically someone who wants to make you a sign for a sign will ask you in a comment. It should look something like this:
“Hey baby ur so fkkin sexxee.. S4S?”
The most important advice for S4S is this:
When someone invites you to do a sign for a sign, make sure they do their sign first or make sure you talk to them a while and trust them enough to make you a sign.
Typical Paper / Cardboard Signs
A “fan sign” on myspace is usually a piece of paper held up next to your face in the mirror with “I love (some person’s screen name and myspace ID)” or something like “(some person) is sexy/hawt/etc”.
Here’s an example of a regular paper sign:

It’s kind of boring, so you probably want to spruce things up a bit with colors at least.
This is how a paper sign should probably look. Notice how it’s easy to read the sign and all the personal touches that say “this would have been a pain to do in photoshop”:

This person took the shortcut and held up a piece of white paper so he could photoshop on the writing later. We don’t recommend the lazy way because it looks cheap and fake:

If you’re going to photoshop your signs, they should look creative like this one:

Make sure you hold your sign up properly and that your camera is focused correctly on the sign (and maybe also your face if you have a nice one). Don’t do this:

Try to be creative with your myspace signs, there are a lot of things you can do. Here are some S4S ideas:

Body Signs and Hand Signs
Some people prefer a “body sign” or “hand sign” which is the same as a fan sign, except instead of using paper, you use a marker on your skin (such as your fingers or the palm of your hand, or your boobs / tummy / etc). Remember that Myspace doesn’t allow females to show nipples or anyone to show butt cracks or genitals. Tom will delete you or make you brake yo’self. Oh yeah for body signs - if you don’t got it, don’t flaunt it.
Here’s an example of a nice, quick, simple hand sign done with a marker:

This guy has a decent body, but the sign was kinda quick and dirty. I suppose he wanted Hollie to stare at his body while she tried to figure out what the sign says:

This skinny emo kid made a pretty good sign for Raine a.k.a. Nintendoll. He turned up his contrast really high in order to make the sign easier to read (or maybe to hide chest hairs, who knows.) I think it’s a success. A body sign should probably look something like this:

Fan art isn’t really a sign, but I thought it was worth mentioning here. If you have fan art, it means you have some actual real fans who are extremely dedicated. Drawing a picture of someone (or tastefully photoshopping it) takes a lot of work. Train whores have lots of signs on their myspace profile page, but scene queens and real celebrities have fan art instead.
Here’s an example of what Fan Art is supposed to Look like (Artwork drawn by Callowlily for Anita. K.):
More Advice on Myspace Signs
- Beware of betches on myspace who hit u up and fkkin lie and don’t do their sign after u do ur sign.
- When you put signs up on your page, create a separate album and label it “signs” or “fansigns” or even better “signs - add these ppl” (with their short myspace URL or friend ID next to their signs)
- Always give credit to the person making you a sign unless they perfer to remain anyonymous (like anyone does?)
- Most people prefer that you put their short myspace URL ( www.myspace.com/somegirl ) as the caption of their photo. You should prefer this too if you want lots of people to see that you’re down for S4S and you want lots of people to add you.
- If you’re going to be lazy and photoshop your signs instead of making a real sign by hand, then at least be creative in photoshop and make sure people know you aren’t a fake.
ok…..I’m pretty sure there is a much easier way of doing this but…being me and using both
sides of my brain to accomplish something..I came up with this horrible method. Normally i just upload about 4 seconds of video to GIFNINJA.com and they do there stuff and out pops a video converted into a gif….but for some reason lately they havent been doing anything at all….just errors….so screw you gifninja lol……plus they make the gif picture itself really small and they only use a few frames per second….instead of my usual 16 or so frames….which makes for a crappy gif in my opinion so….
- Take a video of what you want and upload it to your computer. I don’t use mac…..(I absolutely hate editing on MAC computers) sorry….and load your video into windows movie maker.
- edit your video how you want it (remember theres no sound in GIF’s…it’s a picture file not a movie)
- I suggest you speed up your video using the video effects options. And seriously….only use about 4 seconds of video total…or your gunna hate doing this.
- SAVE SAVE SAVE!
- now for the fun part. Remember how i told you to speed up your video…if you didnt do so your gunna hate this part…..Go to where you preview the movie….should be on the right side…looks like a regular old video player….on the bottom of the right corner there should be a picture of a camera. This will be your best friend for the next hour or so.
Then Locate the little blue slider thingy on the video timeline.
You are going to pause the video and move the slider verrryyyyy slowwwly to the next frame…at each frame click the picture button and save the picture to a folder in your “MY PICTURES” ******Make sure you number each picture in sequencial order….this will help later on.
So…..do that for EVERY FRAME….just a heads up there are usually 12-16 frames per second….so remember when I told you to only use about 4 seconds?
This is why - Ok so yay! you finished taking pictures of every frame and you should have over 50 new pictures all numbered and put in there own little picture folder.
- Now….you need some sort of GIF editing software.I use Jasc Animation Shop 3 You can download the trial version of it here
- When you have downloaded the program open each picture starting with number one and work your way up…..copy and paste the pictures into the boxes of the 1st picture…..all in order.Then save your animation
Ta Da…..:)
Mine took an hour.
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pc4pc (short for Picture Comment for Picture Comment)
A bartering of services in which comments are exchanged, usually regarding photographs or pictures on a myspace page.
pc4pc is not just limited to the practice of soliciting attention, but rather considered a policy of common courtesy when engaging in online social networking. In other words, it is advisable to reciprocate comments any time comments are given.
Example of a typical pc4pc scenario:
- “Girl A” announces a “pc4pc on default” offer in her status and bulletins.
- “Boy B” sees that “Girl A” is attractive and submits a comment on “Girl A’s” default photo. He writes, “Damn qirl U teh sex.”
- “Boy B” now expects that “Girl A” will reciprocate with her own comment.
- “Girl A”, in the process of approving hundreds of comments sees the comment “Boy B”, but “Boy B” is embarassingly unattractive. “Girl A” will most likely:
- Ignore “Boy B” and not comment back
- Comment back under the general comments (rather than the picture comments) with a message like “Thanks.”
- Courteously comment back on the easiest picture to access with a message like “Thanks.”
A Video of a young girl soliciting Picture Comments for Picture Comments (for those of you who don’t read):
A Video of kids with braces explaining the importance of PC4PC etiquitte:
People generally expect to receive comments on their default picture, which should be the first picture available in their “My Photos” album. If they do not want comments on their default picture, they will most likely move it to a private album or an album called don’t comment, or mark it with a caption that says “Don’t comment.”
The well organized, experienced myspace whore will rotate one or two photos into an album in the upper left corner called “Comment these, Bitches” and move older images to a different album which may be called “Old - Don’t comment.”
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