Meanings
- Internetpluralplural of doll
Stardoll: a ‘dress-up’ or ‘Dollz’ game designed for children aged 9 years and over.
2010, Neil Selwyn, John Potter, Sue Cranmer, Primary Schools and ICT: Learning from Pupil Perspectives, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 635 more examples
The Web has become the setting for a new kind of play and dolls have shed a dimension, becoming flat like their paper ancestors. As a sign of the times, they’ve also gained a Gen-Y misspelling and are known now as “dollz” (usually) to their avid collectors. […] Online, where young men tend to attract most of the attention for graphical artistry in video games, Photoshopping and related media, the dollz subculture is a breath of fresh air far apart from the frenzied demimondes of CounterStrike mods or “tourist guy” Photoshop contests.
2003 October 7, Mitch Borgeson, “Playing with dollz”, in Salon.com, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2012In this framework, typical icons of the Emo subculture are the emo dollz, ie puppets without eyes that feature in the illustrations and in the comic strips filling the pages of the Emo […]
2013, Ariela Mortara, Simona Ironico, “Deconstructing Emo lifestyle and aesthetics: a netnographic research”, in Young Consumers, volume 14, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 351–359In its origins, it was ostensibly for making dollz, with a z, which are different than dolls with an s. […] The Doll Palace wasn’t the only website that offered dollz; there were people all over the internet who built their own bases and elements that you could incorporate into your designs.
2016 July 16, maralie darling, “we have always lived in the palace”, in Medium, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2017With faster connection speeds came visual chat rooms where users could express their personalities more overtly through graphic avatars, pixel-resolution representations ranging from inanimate objects to cartoonish “dollz,” animals, and abstract swizzles.
2019 September 16, Claire L. Evans, “Quest of the Avatars”, in Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal: Imitation, number 23, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2020There are other meanings of the expression virtual dolls. […] On the internet they are often referred to as dollz to distinguish them from traditional dolls. The hobby has been around since 1995, when dollz were created to use as avatars in the graphic chat programme “The Palace”, […]
2021, José Enrique Finol, On the Corposphere: Anthroposemiotics of the Body, De Gruyter, →ISBN
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