It's a trap!

[theweaselking]

EDIT: Okay, I've had my fun.

The reason I have your icon, or your old icon, or maybe you don't see anything, is that it's pulling out of Livejournal's cached "scratch space"

Basically, if you upload a pic that's too big, it puts it in a scratch space, loads it into the editor, lets you modify it, and lets you save the result in a pic slot.

However, it doesn't *delete* that scratch image. And the image is still there, stored in your account, weeks or months later.

Meaning that this thing pulls out *the last picture you edited using livejournal's picture editor*.

Comments

[publius1.livejournal.com]

... I've been using that awesome retro picture as my AI irony-icon for my posts.. is that where you got it, or did you randomly find it yourself? 'cause if so, wow, coincidence.

[nadriel.livejournal.com]

It's my Star Wars LARP icon- I use it for game-related posts.

I certainly created the one with that writing, although I've no idea who else may have come up with the idea simultaneiously.

Edit: Looking below, it seems like a case of parallel development :P

[geminiknight.livejournal.com]

S'funny, I used that for one of my LJ icons, too.

[faolan-phe0nix.livejournal.com]

::smile:: I have that as an icon too :D

[thornleaf.livejournal.com]

Ah, neat. I see what's happening here.

For a second there I was wondering where the hell you got a picture of my cat. :)

[harald387.livejournal.com]

Don't DO that.

[quilzas.livejournal.com]

Ah yes.. this is one of my LJ icons as well.

And I have the full-sized picture that it's from. ;)

[torrain.livejournal.com]

*cannot see picture*

[elffin.livejournal.com]

*seconded*

[jdarkwulf.livejournal.com]

Okay, when I saw the picture that's showing for ME, it caught me completely off-guard.

From some of the comments, I think I understand what's going on. My question is, "whoa, how?" :)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

The URL is http://www.livejournal.com/misc/mogupic.bml?size=200

If you hit that page, it pulls one of your own pictures, out of the logged-in journal, and returns it.

So what I've posted is, essentially, an image that is an icon or a pic of *whoever is looking at it at the time*.

[dolston.livejournal.com]

Bad trap. It pulled a REALLY old icon of mine. Kind of nifty.

[reyl.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes it is. BASTARD!

[marlo.livejournal.com]

Oh jesus. That scared the crap out of me.

[elffin.livejournal.com]

Icon love.

[paradoxicmotion.livejournal.com]

I c wat u did thur.

[mcpino.livejournal.com]

Way cool!

[scixual.livejournal.com]

Damn, and I thought my icon had gone all viral.

[stormfeather.livejournal.com]

Heh, I saw this one. For a second, I thought you suddenly decided you really liked it and must share. :p Couldn't figure out the topic though...

[being-here.livejournal.com]

Oh that's brilliant!

[moosl.livejournal.com]

It's not working for me, and I got lots of icons (http://www.livejournal.com/allpics.bml?user=moosl).

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

It's pulling out of Livejournal's cached "scratch space" - basically, if you upload a pic that's too big, it loads it into the editor, lets you modify it, and lets you save the result in a pic slot.

However, it doesn't *delete* that scratch image.

Meaning that this thing pulls out *the last picture you edited using livejournal's picture editor*.

If you never use it, like me and, apparently, you, you don't see anything. And you miss the joke, which is sad.

[neobitch.livejournal.com]

Thank god I read the comments before posting. I was about to get all, "Pfft, I linked that, like, WEEKS ago!" on you. ;)

[phasade.livejournal.com]

This messed me up...

I am like how the hell do you have a picture of my son as a newborn!!

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I don't. YOU do, and this pulls the last image you edited out of livejournal's cache.

[ulitave.livejournal.com]

ah-ha! I've seen this trick before but couldn't figure out how it was done.

alternatively

[speck.livejournal.com]

Meaning that this thing pulls out *the last picture you edited using livejournal's picture editor*.

An icon you technically deleted but really will stay on livejournal's servers for-evah.

As is true in my case.

[panzerwalt.livejournal.com]

LOL this is the one i got

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[hadesflower.livejournal.com]

lol...thats kinda funny, I got bored waiting for that to load and went on to other sites, I didn't even bother to go back and look for it

[chizzer.livejournal.com]

Fedor arm-bars God!