icontalking | Help With Icon Terms and Links

Hello!

A few weeks ago I commented on the post here about songsets because I hadn't seen them before. I looked up information about it on Fanlore and was distressed to see that it didn't mention them at all. What's more, there wasn't that much information about icons generally, considering what an enormous influence they had on fandom users on LJ.

tinny and

excelsior_hallelujah kindly helped me out with some links and I expanded the former page for icon contests. But I would like to see much more added to the history of icon usage there. Unfortunately I am not, myself, an icon maker and I don't know a lot of the needed information.

Fanlore is open to editing by anyone who wants to sign up for an account. However, if you do not want to, I would be glad to add information that is posted here in comments to fill out its pages there. The main ones appear to be:

Icon_(image)
Icontest

Please take a look at the links and let me know if you can think of examples, particularly for things like icon memes, aesthetic trends, terms, and different kinds of challenges.

Thanks!

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colls

Those fanlore pages were very interesting - brought back a lot of memories (LOL)

On the icontest page, I suggest listing icon rumbles.
And example of one on LJ is: https://firefly-rumble.livejournal.com/profile

A rumble is like a lims contest in that participants sign up and there is a round of challenges (usually 8-10). No one is eliminated, but votes are weighted (and screened) and winners get positive feedback only.

I dearly loved rumbles and now kinda what to host one. I might go over to iconbattles and set one up! :) :)

yourlibrarian

Ha, glad it reignited your interest! I'll add that in this week.

tinny

other good examples of rumbles are

turbo_rumble

and the rumbles at

calendarsquares under this tag: https://calendarsquares.livejournal.com/tag/-rumble

(i really wanted to reply to you, not myself. *headdesk*

Oh yes, count me in. rumbles are awesome.

Okay, I would add stuff there directly but didn't know how to upload images.

So I am posting them here, after all. Please put the iconmaker credit in the image description if possible. (All mentioned makers are LJ makers unless otherwise noted!)

Memes:

"pop art/ads/posters"

brasaremean | gilcurtis

"in ur..."

tinny@dw | songstresslenne

Techniques/Trends:

"prominent borders"

ofthemorning | luppiters | novindalf

"tiny text"

evilgiraffe | magicrubbish

"red blob of doom"

slackerace | alwaysbeenasmiler@dw

"silhouettes"

jsfunction | lemonpunch

"extremely vibrant high contrast/extremely muted low contrast"

deny1984 | adriftingsea

"circle textures"

sweet_lyri | novindalf

"negative space"

? | nightbulbs

"art/painting"

damsiedam | longerthanwedo

"that one halo texture"

Edited Date: 2019-04-28 09:29 am (UTC)

Thank you for the additions, tinny! Yes, the image uploading works in two parts there (kind of like here and LJ, they have to go into a gallery first and then connected to the post).

goodbyebird

Just came over this while browsing. I'd be happy to supply some more icons when I get home in a couple of weeks. Some trends I recall off the top of my head are wings, halos, "I watch for the plot", quotes, crowns, fake backgrounds, fractured icons, animated icons, manipped icons, bw, close-crops, etc. HUGE folder at home, so I'm sure I'll think of more.

(awww tiny text and red blob of doom, blast from the past!)

Also, I remember there being icon talking posts, where every comment just said "." and the actual convo was made using icons. Aww the good ol' days.

That would be great! I'll be glad to update those pages.

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