![]() ![]() What is that pixel font used on so many of these? Also, lots of these feature lyrics, so a quick google of those usually turns up the song they’re from. Usually I’m able to figure it out but sometimes I’m not, so if you recognize someone I haven’t or I’ve screwed up, let me know. For those, I take to TinEye and Google reverse image search. There are a few exceptions - I wasn’t super deep into pop punk, so I don’t know individual band members beyond the popular lead singers by sight, and I know absolutely nothing about MTV shows or anime, for example. ![]() I’m of an age where I remember most of the popular subjects of these icons - bands, movies, TV shows, internet references and so on. How do you figure out who’s in these icons? If you did make any of these, I’d love to hear from you! For icons I find on LiveJournal, I often am able to find credits, so I put links to those users’ journals in the content source. Plus people just didn’t care about keeping credit for these, so the sources have been long lost. Even when I search on TinEye, most of the links are dead if they even show up. Lots of people on Xanga just collected and reposted icons. The Xanga blogs I got them from weren’t the original creators. It wasn’t me (unless otherwise stated on like, 5-10 icons I made for the TV show The Soup once because nobody else had.) The truth is that I have no idea who made the vast majority of these icons, and there’s really no way to easily find out. Plus your average teen on the internet back then didn’t know/think about the fact that saving something as a jpeg at the lowest quality setting wouldn’t produce the best images. These days, even phone screens often have better resolution than the typical home monitor in 2004, so blown up they look like crap. Keep in mind that most people’s home internet in the early-mid aughts couldn’t handle large image downloads or would have loaded them very slowly, so these babies had to be kept tiny. This was the limit for size on MSN messenger, LiveJournal, many forums and other sites. ![]() Most icons were only 100x100 pixels and compressed. Why are the icons such poor quality/so pixilated? They load properly on the desktop Tumblr interface. Sometimes they’re just that way - most of these were made by teenagers just playing around with graphics software after all - but in most cases, for some reason the Tumblr mobile app really screws up the animation on certain icons. Why is the animation of some icons so jittery? Recently I’ve been diving more into LiveJournal communities. Some “MySpace graphics” websites are still up, like Jellymuffin and. I downloaded one of the massive WARC files that ArchiveTeam scraped before Xanga shut down and went through the blogs saved in there. Many of them were pulled from the archives of Xanga blogs on the Internet Archive. But the remnants still exist, and they bring me right back to those glory days of glitter graphics and emo lyrics, so I’m sharing them with all of you. On forums you would often see “icon shop” threads where people would make icons for others, or even icon making contests.īy the early 2010s people started using photos of themselves online more regularly with the popularity of Facebook, home internet connections were able to handle much higher quality images, and the websites and IM clients where icons reigned shut down or lost popularity, so these icons largely faded into the past (though you can still find active icon-making communities on LiveJournal and even Tumblr!). Eventually communities popped up on the social networking sites where people would make their own icons and share them, or simply collect ones they liked. They often depicted a pop culture thing the user liked, a ~deep~ quote, a joke (that “random xD” humour dominated), or just a pretty picture. People were still wary about posting pictures of themselves for everyone to see online, and internet bandwidth and speeds were still pretty low for more people, so when the idea of a profile pictures to easily identify your posts on whatever site came about, lots of people started using these little icons. Sites like LiveJournal (and its clones), Xanga, Friendster, Bebo and of course MySpace were popping up, alongside forums for every imaginable subject and instant messenger clients like MSN and AIM were widely used. All of these places are off-site because everyone usually checks their FC’s icon tags first, but a lot of people don’t know about insanejournal, dreamwidth, or livejournal icon communities.Back in the grand old days of 2000s internet, what we would come to call social media was first emerging. 100x100 icons have become popular in the community lately, and I just wanted to list some icon sources that will hopefully make finding icons for your FC much easier! I mostly only included places with a decent-sized, organized directory/tag system. ![]()
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