how many avatars are there

There are two popular ways people mean “how many avatars are there?” right now, and they give very different answers:

• In Avatar: The Last Airbender / The Legend of Korra (the bending universe), in‑world material and fan analyses usually place the total number of Avatars from Wan up to Korra at roughly the high two‑digits to low two‑hundreds, with many recent fan calculations clustering around about 100–200 distinct Avatars, not thousands as Roku’s poetic line might suggest.

• In general internet/tech culture (profile pictures, VTubers, AI or game avatars), the number of avatars is effectively unlimited, because anyone can create new characters, styles, and digital bodies at any time.

I don’t have live access to more data or official databases beyond what I’ve already been given, so I can’t compute a single exact “master number” of all avatars across every platform, game, and fandom. But if you’re asking in the way forum and fandom discussions usually do, people are most often talking about the Avatar universe above, where the answer is “on the order of a hundred‑plus, not a thousand.”