![]() There were communities for hating on the elite communities. There were elite icon maker communities you had to apply to enter. There were flame wars and anonymous hate posts. “But did anyone care about this, seriously? There wasn’t actual drama about this sort of thing-” Oh they cared. Everyone had an opinion, a style, a look. There was a time 45x45 pixels was the ‘in’ thing. Take that anime and crank up those values! Hypersaturation was the key to the early look. Depending on the community, you might be the height of fashion or rocking white after Labour Day with your use of borders. Finally, borders became gauche, and you would let your icon hang borderless. ![]() For a while, only a pariah would go without a delicate one pixel border around your icon. (Side-note: I’m not censoring out names here because all accounts are dead, and most of them died 15-20 years ago.Ī brief overview of some icon trends over the years: Īround 2004, many icons included tiny, intentionally unreadable text. And yes, I found some old drama with images for you youngins to experience. Unfrost your 90s tips, take off that black lace choker and join me in the early 2000 internet culture. That’s right, I’m here to talk about LIVEJOURNAL ICON DRAMA. You wouldn’t do that, would you? Have an unaesthetic, imperfectly balanced icon? Of course not! Everyone would judge you if you had 3 uneven pixels! No one here would ever be some sort of … 98x97 pixel peasant. Back to the days of dial-up and ADSL, before Tumblrs and Tweets and Tik-Toks, when most of fandom was congregated in one location and your precious online self-representation came in the form of 3 little images, sized 100x100 if you knew what was good for you. I added MORE JUICY DRAMA SCREENCAPS so if you read it before, you can search for “NEW:” and check out the new drama such as ‘Harriet Tubman animated icon defending Harry Potter shipping’ and ‘an icon commissioner doesn’t fulfill an order for five months, with public mudslinging from both sides.’
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