The default picture used by over 84% of users of the popular networking site myspace (See definition #4).
-Man, she looks fine!
-Can't you tell? That's a horrible pixelated shot of an underdeveloped highschool freshman in their underwear trying their best to make a seductive face, dude.
An insult coined by Miami lawyer and anti-videogame crusader Jack Thompson to describe gamers who fought back against his attempts to ban violent games. While intended as an ad hominem insult, some gamers have taken the mantle on proudly as "pixelantes".
Believed to be a portmanteau derived from "pixel", a reference to videogame graphics, and "vigilante".
Pixelation happens when an image displayed on a monitor (TV, VGA, LCD, etc...) is stretched beyond its intended resolution, this causes the individual pixels themselves to be enlarged, making the image look blocky and generally bad.
I got this porn MPG on my computer, it was 320x240 so when I put it in full screen, it got so pixelated I couldn't see it well enough to get hard.
Originally, a term coined by Jack Thompson, referring to members of the internet-based gaming subculture who have taken it upon themselves to take action against him for his harassment of Mike Krahulik, the artist from the webcomic Penny Arcade.
The term has since been reclaimed by two designers at Straight Loop, who have made a tshirt design based on the word.
"Several weeks ago some gamer idiot (sorry to be redundant) managed to email me thousands of death threats from a blast e-mail service based in Ireland using the following e-mail address: georgewbush@whitehouse.gov. The Secret Service shut that pixelante right down."