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idk, man. i see plenty of ocs and book characters in bakerstreet with popular actors in roles that make me doubletake when i scroll by until i see they're an oc or not the character i thought they were. then i either get interested enough to see what the char's about, or i scroll on.

jensen ackles has a face. a recognizable face because he played a popular character for over a decade. he's playing other characters now, like in the boys and tracker, so who's to say that it's not taken from one of those roles? someone like jensen is typecast, and even though they've branched out, they'll forever be known as one role. doesn't mean someone's not using daenerys targaryan icons for amalthea the unicorn, or ben barnes from punisher as an oc. not shitting on those choices, either. but 'popularity' and negative association is going to be a ymmv thing. some people might be okay with it. some won't. in the end, who cares? the ones who don't like it just aren't going to tag you. the ones who don't care will either tag or scroll past.

perception is part of the problem too, because especially for book characters without a visible media counterpart, your brain might just supply its own version of feyre or tamlin or anita blake. and it might be because a show or movie you watched had a character that came really close to the visual representation, and that's your version of them in your head. and an already established character is usually going to be easier to find icons already made or screencaps to make icons for than using picrew or commissioning art.