EDIT 1/11/2015: I'm not sorry for killing this thread
So I typed this out to make a point, but I'll review Moy's below all this:
Forums Games sure is fun
(Why not move this to General Artwork? We can start a poll, since this honestly isn't even a forum game anymore apparently)
Alright, guess I'll pull out all the stops then.
It took me awhile to get what bothered me about the image itself, but the violet gas cloud on the right distracts from the actual subject of the image, which is your shorthand name/nickname. It's thicker compared to the letters and just larger in general. Without it, the font itself is fine, I guess the filter does its job of contrasting the subject and background, so cool cool.
The meat of your sig is under that spoiler. Format is beautiful, but ways to improve it aesthetically are to make your lack of capitalization consistent (it looks minimalist if it's all lowercase which is fine, but there are things in there that are uppercase which messes it up), give 'hello this is oj' a separate section (because grouping your aka's by themselves makes more sense graphically and the 'hello' can work as a more succinct subtitle for the sigbar which acts as a title) and switch shows and games around to match the other side, and keep messing with that as you update it. If it becomes problematic, think about inverting one in relation to the other or suggesting common text justifications/writing format (I'll make examples below)
inverted:
sec 1 | sec 2
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indented paragraph
sec 1 | sec 2
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full justified
sec 1 | sec 2
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flush left
sec 1 | sec 2
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I don't know to what extent you can format these, so maybe you can even justify the columns themselves, but this is all assuming you're stuck with centering.
I don't dig the background color you gave that gif (I can see that it's a transparent background image placed in a formatted box), maybe because it is there all alone with nothing else to counterbalance it on either side. Another thing is that the box doesn't match the horizontal nature of a signature.
At this point, its all my personal taste, but maybe the link can be transferred to the gif and the gif box can be repositioned (and resized using simg if its possible to override the image link) in between the gray columns. You can put a disclaimer directly below that, in the same box, that it isn't your gif or tumblr if it really matters.
9.3/10
Beautiful, minus the gif (box color choice included), could be perfect with fine tuning. Good things get their flaws pointed out hard.
tl;dr eh, we should talk about moving this if we're really gonna take these posts seriously
Moy, your sigbar is much simpler to rate because it's just a sigbar, so no wall of text. Still longer though.
I know you love your filters, and at this point, I've just come to accept it (levels with filters over it, I don't know about though, I remember not liking those when that was popular). In this case though, it is indeed aesthetically pleasing because it looks like they support the winter theme, with a hazy, frosted look. In particular, I'm thinking of a flowing water that froze over.
The text is almost fine, and I get that it's spaced evenly from the corner, but I'm thinking keeping it all contained within that ellipse made inside the lightest shade of blue would unify the text more. Shifting it that way would probably fix some inconvenient clashing, too, in particular: the g in single. If not, I think the filters simplify it enough that coloring over a few snowflakes wouldn't be too annoying.
Simple things are cool. Just a minor problem in clashing and a suggestion in visual emphasis. 8.6/10
I guess something interesting that just popped up was that it kinda works with the post itself if its short enough. The post title and rank color are blue, and they flow into your quote which is especially neat, and white text can balance with the bottom of the sig too.