About two years ago I held a vote to choose the icon for this community. I had used my own minimal photoshop (well, GIMP) skills and made the type of icon I was envisioning. All of the other submissions were AI generated. In the end, my icon lost by one vote and we went with the winner. Lately though, I’ve been thinking about that icon I made. To me, cyberpunk is more punk and not just a pile of skyscrapers.

Anyway, we recently made a !steampunk@lemmy.zip community and BrikoX had created another genAI image for the icon just so the icon wasn’t blank. And we got a lot of complaints about using a genAI image. A random user even submitted their own icon just because he was so annoyed at that genAI image (and we’re now using that icon).

To some extent, I think genAI images are “cyberpunk” so I think it fits the community. However, there’s definitely more push-back on genAI images now than there were 2 years ago. So being a mod (and being drunk on my own power), I’m forcing you all to live with the cheap icon I threw together in GIMP two years ago. 😈

I’m open to using a different icon if someone with more skills than me wants to take a crack at it. But I think I’m going to avoid using a genAI icon for this community now. Also, I don’t have any strong feelings about the banner image so we can leave it or someone can submit an alternative.