I was just in a community and someone had posted their icons with a note that "textless icons are not bases". You know what I have to say to that? Bases are not textless icons! ZOMG What?! Yeah, if you took a screenshot and cropped an image down to 100x100, it's not an icon. It's just a base. With no border, no text, no personalization, it's just a 100x100 picture, but I don't really think it's an icon just because you cropped it. I know everyone's thoughts on this stuff is different. It's like going "What is art?" except it's "What is an icon?" To me, an icon is something you took a little time on that expresses your personality in some way, be it through how you tweaked it to what you wrote on it. If you didn't make it, your choice of icons still says something about you. Ah well, I guess I'm just something of an icon elitist. But really, don't get your panties in a bunch when you make a 100x100 picture that isn't even a good focus or crop job and someone else feels the need to fix it up.
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