Love ‘Crazy Eyes’? New Netflix icons have you covered

If you subscribe to Netflix, you know that every account allows you to create up to five different viewer profiles. This allows viewers to have more control over the shows they want to watch.

For example, letting your kids set up their own profiles means that if they like watching “Fuller House” over and over, but you don’t have any desire to see the new adventures of San Francisco’s Tan- ner family, you can avoid that show, along with suggestions based on the program. And then you can get back to bingewatching “Narcos.”

As part of Netflix’s attempts to create more customized viewing experiences, the company lets you set up a profile icon from one of a series of animated options. And soon, you’ll be able tomake that icon even more to your liking, and look like characters in Netflix original programs.

Netflix saidWednesday that it is beginning to roll out the option to use characters such as Crazy Eyes from“Orange Is The New Black,” Luke Cage, and Steve — the 80s teenager with the awesome hair, from “Stranger Things”— for a person’s profile icon. Netflix said the new feature will become available over the next few weeks across its desktop website, mobile and TV devices.

In addition to the character icons, Netflix said it will be setting more personalized recommendations for its subscribers and that customers can set a profile name based on their moods, or the types of programming they prefer to watch. So, you could take Steve from “Stranger Things” and, say, set a profile name of “Cool Dude.”

There was no word about whether or not all Netflix original program characters will be made available to be profile icons. Anyone hoping to set themselves up as former Colombian cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar, from “Narcos,” will have to wait and see how far Netflix will go with its icon selection.