Icon Theme Day

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Icon Theme Day takes place each Friday, during which time participants use an icon that fits into the week's theme. A consensus on each week's theme is reached in the days leading up to the event (usually involving cage matches and taking out hits on competing ideas), with some themes being chosen in advance to go along with holidays or other special events. Lately, though, things have been much more organized and less contentious, as whenever new themes need to be chosen the top two or three contenders are just tossed onto a schedule for the next few weeks. The theme day begins at midnight on Thursday night (or whenever anyone feels like switching) and goes until the following midnight.

The first official Icon Theme Day took place on February 9, 2007, and was preceded by AD Self-Loathing Avatar Switch Day in December 2006 and a random "let's wear Eureka seveN icons" day. A second Self-Loathing Avatar Switch Day took place in March 2008 when we found out we'd be losing icons from several shows, even though we hadn't gotten the new icon batch yet which was why it wasn't held the previous December.

Here's the first thread, which was locked for too much awesome.

The second thread. Also locked for rampant awesome.

Third thread, yep... still too much awesome.

Previous icon themes include:

• Week 1 - Stephanie Sheh for a day
• Week 2 - Characters with silver/white/gray hair
• Week 3 - Animals
• Week 4 - Lolis (This was one of only (I believe) themes to be thought up only minutes before theme day began)
• Week 5 - Characters wearing hats or other headgear
• Week 6 - Villains/antagonists
• Week 7 - Faye for a day
• Week 8 - Lost rights
• Week 9 - Opposite gender
• Week 10 - March of the Shippos
• Week 11 - Homunculi
• Week 12 - Gekko State (commemorating the Eureka seveN finale)
• Week 13 - Old people
• Week 14 - Mothers (for Mother's Day)
• Week 15 - Blood Drive (icons from Blood+ and Trinity Blood; this was the first week with the new icon batch)
• Week 16 - Characters in uniform (for Memorial Day)
• Week 17 - Day of Rage
• Week 18 - Crispin Freeman characters
• Week 19 - Fathers (for Father's Day)
• Week 20 - Characters wearing glasses or other eyewear
• Week 21 - Couples and groups (in which participants match up with other people and use coordinating icons)
• Week 22 - Red, white, and blue (for the Fourth of July)
• Week 23 - Facial hair (icons that have moustaches, beards, soul patches... you name it)
• Week 24 - Mecha
• Week 25 - Nostalgia day (your first icon)
• Week 26 - Comedy shows
• Week 27 - Frou-frou (frilly, fussy, or showy dress or ornamentation)
• Week 28 - Soul Reapers
• Week 29 - Objects
• Week 30 - Steven Blum characters
• Week 31 - GeckoZero memorial (commemorating the passing of our friend and Jin enthusiast Gecko)
• Week 32 - Cowboy Bebop (commemorating the return of the show to the lineup)
• Week 33 - Super-deformed
• Week 34 - Men in suits
• Week 35 - Characters with blonde hair
• Week 36 - Characters who appear in only one episode
• Week 37 - Icons with multiple people
• Week 38 - Swordsmen/women
• Week 39 - Characters wearing costumes/disguises (for Halloween)
• Week 40 - Shoutas
• Week 41 - Characters who look like you
• Week 42 - Food and drink (for Thanksgiving)
• Week 43 - Section 9
• Week 44 - BOHAHAHA
• Week 45 - Movies/specials
• Week 46 - Holiday wishlist (things or people you'd like to get as a present)
• Week 47 - Drunks and partygoers (for New Year's)
• Week 48 - s-CRY-ed
• Week 49 - Matching rank color
• Week 50 - Lupin III (commemorating the news of the show's lost rights)
• Week 51 - Dress for the weather
• Week 52 - Asskicking chicks
• Week 53 - Revisit a theme from the past year (for the anniversary of Icon Theme Day)
• Week 54 - Kari Wahlgren characters
• Week 55 - Characters from a show you've never seen
• Week 56 - Last chance day (the icon you'll miss most, wish you could have used, etc.; this theme followed the announcement that icons from several shows would be removed at some unspecified but imminent date)
• Week 57 - Clergy
• Week 58 - Nerds
• Week 59 - Your first AS show (that we have icons for)
• Week 60 - Characters who share your personality (icons were actually removed during this theme day, forcing some people to change icons partway through the day)
• Week 61 - No icon (commemorating the mass icon removal)
• Week 62 - Musicians
• Week 63 - Smiling characters
• Week 64 - GAR characters
• Week 65 - Gunmen
• Week 66 - Smokers
• Week 67 - Paranoia Agent
• Week 68 - Samurai Champloo
• Week 69 - Michael McConnohie characters
• Week 70 - Your favorite character
• Week 71 - Gays/trannies
• Week 72 - Think Pink (icons featuring the color pink)
• Week 73 - Couples/groups
• Week 74 - Guys with long hair
• Week 75 - Your current mood
• Week 76 - Smileyindifferent day (icons of characters making indifferent faces)
• Week 77 - Younger versions of characters
• Week 78 - "Aquatic" icons (for Discovery Channel's Shark Week)
• Week 79 - Wendee Lee characters
• Week 80 - Transportation
• Week 81 - Prostitutes
• Week 82 - Liam O'Brien characters
• Week 83 - Sports and games
• Week 84 - Characters' alternate forms
• Week 85 - Icons with numbers (this theme took place the day after Samurai Champloo icons were removed)
• Week 86 - Body parts that aren't faces
• Week 87 - Monochromatic icons
• Week 88 - Shin-chan (commemorating the airing of the final episode on the Fix)
• Week 89 - Right hand men/women
• Week 90 - Noobs
• Week 91 - Scary things (for Halloween)
• Week 92 - Mavericks
• Week 93 - Plants
• Week 94 - Chicks with big boobs
• Week 95 - Families (couples and groups; for Thanksgiving)
• Week 96 - Cats vs. dogs (was going to be Voltron but then they took away the icons for Voltron, Paranoia Agent, and Trinity Blood like the day before)
• Week 97 - Scrooges (crabby characters; sort of for Christmas)
• Week 98 - Red, green, and white (also for Christmas)
• Week 99 - Johnny Yong Bosch-ing Day (for Boxing Day)
• Week 100 - Celebration-y icons (for New Year's and the 100th Icon Theme Day)
• Week 101 - Inuyasha (sort of commemorating the show's removal from the weeknight schedule)
• Week 102 - Leaders (for President Obama's inauguration)
• Week 103 - Orphans

In the wake of the announcement that all icons from lost shows would be removed from the boards, a series of last-ditch Icon Theme Days were scheduled as the Week of Despair, also known as Hell Week. Although it was really more like two weeks before we decided that enough was enough.

• Woz's pants
• Silhouettes
• Michelle Ruff characters
• Mullets
• Gung-ho Guns
• Angels
• Mecha pilots
• Androids/cyborgs/robots
• Symbols
• Eyes
• Loli Squad of Death (Ageha Squad)

Schedule of upcoming themes:

• 1/30 - Characters wearing jewelry/accessories
• 2/6 - Revisit a theme from the past year (for the second anniversary of Icon Theme Day)