So, Gaia's icon.

[9Os]

So every now and then, I'll notice the little red haired anime-eyed avatar right next to the name of the Gaia tab, and I'll think, "Why is this avatar our icon?" I mean, we've come a long way from just making spin off anime items, and not all our avatars are kawaii desu desu anymore.

What do you think is a more suitable icon?
Where do the origins of this one come from?

[Yilanti Midnight]

I think it's a suitable icon. Even if we're not a spin-off anime site anymore, it still has anime roots.

The only other icon I can think is suitable are those mini angel wings that Gaia uses as stickers, and that's a bit kawaii desu too.

[NETGEAR]

I think a Kiki would be more suitable.
I'm a bit sick of seeing the red/brown haired girl as an icon, when I started Gaia I used to look like that. burning_eyes

[Slick Southpaw]

gaia_gaiagold <<-----that, I could go for that as a symbol

Although I did like the wing----& gaia_angelright

The face just kinda creeped me out.

....still better than a cat head. Like dem kitten stars. Ew. gaia_kittenstar So kawaii

[Cosmic Summer]

I did not see it before.


Not as I Know of.

[In Paradisum]

I use a Greasemonkey script in Firefox that turns the newbie girl into the angel wing that they use for stickers. gaia_angelright
I kinda forgot that she was the default. sweatdrop

[fly high - icarus]

well, the red haired (or brown, if you are colorblind like me) bug-eyed icon is unique.
you couldn't mistake it for anything else, really, which i suppose gaia is going for.

i mean look at tumblr and facebook, or instance. blue box with a white lowercase letter. neither is very unique; while gaia's icon is.

still, i think i'd like it better if they changed it into that winged sticker.
it's equally unique, and even more gaia, imo!

gaia_angelright

[Noroia]

Looks like Gaia-tan to me.

[Aperture Sentry Turret]

I hardly even noticed it until now. Site icons are something that don't even exist to me most times.

[Not That Awesome]

I think that even after all these years, it still represents everything that is Gaia. And I'm 100% fine with that.

[little pixels]

I'm going to keep noticing that now. ;A;

But ontopic- I think the wing sticker would make a better icon, as it's uniquely Gaia.

[Caerthakatha]

I think the icon represents Gaia well: for one, it looks like a new user, as well as bearing a
resemblance to Gaia-tan.

[Daniel has Amnesia]

Comon, they changed everything else

at least let us keep the Gaia-tan avatar icon

for nostalgia's sake

[Viviette Valentine]

Guys, Gaia-tan was made years after the favicon and it's based on that avatar, not the other way around XD; also, anime chibi wings really aren't unique, nor was Gaia the first thing to use them... see Card Captor Sakura and many shojos and you'll notice it plenty of times, either way I do like more the mini wing over the current favicon, I have a greasemonkey scrip to change it back at home, and I love the little wing~ <3

[cool nights]

I think that icon will always be suitable. Forever.