Why are icons addictive?

[conuly]

You'd think 50 would be enough for anyone, but now I want more. Maybe 100... Hm. I'm hardly about to reiterate the oh-so-popular suggestion, but any chance, do you think, of people being able to buy ever more icons... *plots and schemes*

Yes, I know, this is pathetic. Sorry. While we're on the subject, why do so many people make icons that all look alike? Is it just that they all decided that they like this one style, so they're only going to make icons in that one style, even though it's virtually impossible to distinguish one from another? And what's with the tiny text? If a person with normal eyesight is unlikely to be able to read the text, don't you think it should be made a little larger? Maybe?

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[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

Brushes are pre-made shapes that you can load into PS or PSP, and pick a color, and paint them on. They come in all sorts--some make it look grungy, some make it look patterned, or textured, or brighter, or darker.. And there are brushes that people have made by typing something in, like "sadness is a color" or some other poetic thing, and then post it for the world to download and paste on instantly. So there's people running around with icons that have the same phrase in the same size and same font.

Hm, I ramble. That might have made sense, though.