i miss when rp icons were like… visually accessible. 100x100 or bigger, no filters, no boarders, unedited.
i feel like tumblr rpers nowadays forgot why icons were used in the first place. it was to show your character’s expressions, reacting to the situation.
call me a “tumblr rp boomer”, but i miss when people didn’t overly edit icons or make their blog themes impossible to access or make their writing posts so tiny that they’re unreadable/format them to try to be “fancy”. when i first got into rping on tumblr, people with the same character used to share icons between each other. now people are editing them as if to “claim” them as theirs. the edits are so heavy that they’re unrecognizable from what they originally were. they’re so tiny that i can’t tell what i’m looking at, and/or they’re so overly edited that i STILL can’t tell what i’m looking at.
when did this become the norm? WHY did this become the norm?













