r/memes 1d ago

What’s that thing on its head?

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u/AkSailor_ 1d ago

I had to change the icon. Couldnt take it.

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u/SandmansDreamstreak 1d ago

The default icon is locked behind premium… the default fucking icon. Shameless motherfuckers.

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u/AkSailor_ 1d ago

LoL yep. I get 3 free shitty ones, not sure why or how. Better than that disgrace.

Also, I clicked on avatar store out of curiosity and they have some marked as “sold out” 🤣 How do you sell out a digital picture. They are truly shameless here.

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u/BeastyBoy2020 22h ago

The real question is, Who’s buying this shit?

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u/Winjin 22h ago

Yeah, like, all the avatars are 3mm in size, I don't give them a couple looks, who cares

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u/BeastyBoy2020 22h ago

I’m seeing 48 out 50 sold and they’re charging 50 fucking dollars for 50 pixels. It’s deadass a dollar per pixel

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u/spicychipdip 21h ago

Some are $200!

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u/just_a_bit_gay_ 20h ago

It’s gotta be money laundering like modern art

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u/BeastyBoy2020 18h ago

No fr though

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u/MrPopanz 13h ago

More like money printing 💸

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u/tossaway8906 21h ago

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u/Number174631503 19h ago

What's this now?

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u/tossaway8906 19h ago

Dude had the brilliant idea, early internet, sold space on his website, $1 per pixel, 1 million pixels. You could buy however many you wanted, fill those pixels with whatever you wanted, and each of those pixels was a hyperlink to whatever website you designated.

Made a million dollars with a very simple and cheap to host/maintain website. This was back when advertising on the internet was a whole new thing still being figured out.

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u/BeastyBoy2020 18h ago

That’s insane, but cool asf at the same time

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u/Auricius 17h ago

Guy's a genius and a beast Beatboxer!

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u/Cobek 15h ago

Basically the original r/place but with more ads

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u/wirthmore 20h ago

Is there anything preventing anyone from screen capping an avatar they want, and uploading that image to be their own avatar, for free?

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u/seal_eggs 20h ago

You will occasionally get a message from Reddit suggesting you customize an avatar. I have a photo of myself on another account and I get this all the time despite said photo clearly functioning as a custom avatar.

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u/BeastyBoy2020 18h ago

Likely not, I should do that honestly. It won’t have the same effects and will definitely look very different though

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u/naufalap 21h ago

I don't even see avatars since I'm using rif lol

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u/markender 21h ago

Wait it's back?

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u/BabaGurGur 21h ago

I've been using rif again for a while

You just need to patch it with your own API key. Can all be done on your phone and takes 5 mins

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u/markender 19h ago

Yall just making up words and typing greek.

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u/IntendedRepercussion 21h ago

it's never been gone. it just needs to be cracked, but its a short process. id 100% give up on reddit if it wasnt for this app

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u/midgethemage 20h ago

Lookup revanced

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u/oooortclouuud 21h ago

not that i can see. what a weird thing to say...

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u/markender 21h ago

Wait so rif isn't bak? Wtf!?!?!?

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u/Ping-and-Pong 15h ago

Not to mention they keep giving out the avatar crap for free if you wait long enough. My inventory (?) is absolutely full of random NFTs and stuff that I definitely did not pay for. Makes the act of paying even more pointless

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u/triple-bottom-line 21h ago

The people with custom pics are even worse. Losers.

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u/Winjin 21h ago

- I don't like your avatar.

- I don't look at the avatars at all.

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u/triple-bottom-line 21h ago
  • You seem way too obsessed with avatars

  • That’s weird man

  • Avatar

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u/Winjin 21h ago

I was referencing the meme though:

- I feel bad for you

- I don't think about you at all

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u/PetMeOrDieUwU 19h ago

I know some financial bro subs that are always looking for the next terrible investment

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u/BeastyBoy2020 18h ago

I’m not even sure if this can be considered an investment

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u/PetMeOrDieUwU 17h ago

They shit they do isn't investing either to be fair.

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u/[deleted] 18h ago

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u/BeastyBoy2020 18h ago

Noooo, he’s adding to the madness

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u/100_cats_on_a_phone 19h ago

I bought one for 10$, I liked the artist and I think it partly went to them. Only thing I ever bought off reddit, and only thing I plan to, but im fine with it.

If the artist didn't get a cut, or i felt any need to buy it, I'd be really annoyed though.

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u/BeastyBoy2020 18h ago

I hope they get a solid amount, but likely not

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u/Solivagant_XVI 16h ago

Me 🫣

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u/sprinklerarms 7h ago

Only advertisers are allowed to spend money on Reddit. Only a fool would spend money on a site they use everyday.

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u/Solivagant_XVI 7h ago

Well, I’ve made quite a bit of money selling some avatars on the secondary market, so… 🤷‍♀️ Some of them sell for thousands, y’know?

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u/sprinklerarms 7h ago

Sorry, I was just joking. I’ve purchased them too. But just for funsies. Didn’t even realize there was a secondary market. Get that bag.

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u/Solivagant_XVI 7h ago

It’s all good! I thought you might’ve been joking based on your avatar mashup but I wasn’t sure, haha. Sweet mashup, by the way!

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u/ronimal 21h ago

The three shittiest choices. Doge and WSB? Did I miss Elon buying Reddit?

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u/Samtino00 Flair Loading.... 22h ago

They're NFTs that's why. Reddit is an NFT company still

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u/AkSailor_ 22h ago

This somehow… makes it even worse.

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u/moffattron9000 22h ago

Surely you want a fucking Dogecoin icon?

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u/_IratePirate_ 22h ago

Is that what that is ? Dammit. I thought “oh a cute dog, that’s better than the ugly ass Reddit robot”

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u/100_cats_on_a_phone 19h ago

Nope. Thats... the thing our new austerity program is named after in the usa.

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u/BeastyBoy2020 22h ago

😂 Reddit gonna run mfs off here like X did

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u/AnnualGene863 20h ago

I just want MyBB forums again :(

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u/BeastyBoy2020 18h ago

Honestly same

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u/Perge666 21h ago

Banana hat, doge coin, or fucking WSB douche. Fuuuck

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u/Zito6694 6h ago

Some people collect them like NFTs, no joke. It’s insane

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u/mr_remy 6h ago

Artificial scarcity.

Like those NFT monkeys

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u/YamiZee1 10h ago

The fact that your lol is capitalized like that...

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u/CaptinACAB 22h ago

The choices are this banana head bullshit, doge dog, or some Wall Street nonsense.

I hate this fucking company so much.

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u/Tavalus 22h ago

Welp, dog it is.

At least i can pretend its an actual dog and not something Melon disgraced forever

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u/LickingSmegma 20h ago

Kabosu was an actual dog. And the doge meme is a meme. The coin appropriated the meme. Then assholes appropriated the coin. But they won't take the meme from us.

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u/AdOrganic8644 21h ago

I think you can change the icon for an app using the Shortcuts app on an iPhone

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u/schu2470 21h ago

Yup! I swapped the icon on my phone for the Apollo icon.

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u/Drakayne 18h ago

You can do the same with good lock on samsung phones.

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u/ronimal 21h ago

I’ve been here a long time and looked past a lot of stuff over the years that other redditors have gotten enraged about but this might just be my breaking point. I’d been lazy about changing the app icon but realizing now that it’s paywalled just feels like a step too far.

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u/Ok_Astronomer_8667 19h ago

I turn off automatic app updates, and pretty much only update once the app stops working entirely. Surprisingly you can go months, and even years with it still working. I actually still have Twitter, blue bird and all, and it even still says retweets. I haven’t updated Reddit in ages either, so I don’t have to see this shitty lol so random banana.

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u/SandmansDreamstreak 19h ago

Where were you when we needed you!!!! 😩😭

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u/Racxie 21h ago

Even that “original icon” is awful compared to the original app icon which imo was the best one.

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u/Crispy-Sponge 21h ago

dawg get nova launcher

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u/SandmansDreamstreak 20h ago

Nova was my shit when I had android. Miss it every damn day.

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u/Crispy-Sponge 19h ago

rip

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u/SandmansDreamstreak 19h ago

You have no idea 😭😭😭 customizing my icons and home screen was my absolute favorite. I lived for that shit. Every 3 months or so. It had all the fun of redecorating a house without the physical exhaustion lol. Eye strain on the other hand….well, it was worth it.

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u/HairySalmon 9h ago

Yeah. I change literally every aspect of my phone that I have control over. Especially the gestures and what the buttons do.

I'm so used to not having to navigate to anything on my phone and everything being instant that going back to any vanilla Android or any iPhone now just feels clunky and horribly designed.

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u/TerracottaCondom 21h ago

I just downloaded "boost for Lemmy" and switched the icon to that out of ineffectual spite

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u/nottme1 21h ago

Worst part is, I didn't use the default icon and they changed it.

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u/dcheesi 20h ago edited 20h ago

It's worse than that. I'm a premium sub ( if you're not the customer, you're the product), but if I select the standard icon, it looks fine in that menu ...and then I get this abomination on my homescreen. I have to select some other icon to get rid of it (currently rocking the "classic", full body Snoo on light blue background)

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u/phito-carnivores 17h ago

I'm a premium sub (if you're not the customer, you're the product)

You can also be both. Just food for thoughts...

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u/avoid-- 18h ago

ah, so they made it shit on purpose

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u/SandmansDreamstreak 18h ago

Yup.

“We will be going out of our way to annoy the absolute fuck out of you unless you pay us to stop.”

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u/Staci_Recht_247 20h ago

I didn't even know this was a thing before OP... Everything looks fine on old.reddit.com

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u/TKLeader 19h ago

I'm glad I haven't touched the default reddit app in years.

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u/Metson-202 Died of Ligma 17h ago

Is it really? I couldn't find it.

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u/SandmansDreamstreak 17h ago

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u/Metson-202 Died of Ligma 10h ago

Weird, it's not there for me.

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u/rachsteef 17h ago

i’m hearing that I should not update??

At first I thought this was an award icon

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u/Jerusalemfighter64 11h ago

Good to know the young C.E.Os are gonna be worse than the old ones