It started off as a journalsite but is now formerly known for their icon thieves, who are stealing icons from Livejournal users.
Pretty often, those people join webrings to promote their xangas with their icon collections.
Not all are hotlinking. And not everbody claims them as their icons. They are basically just too
lazy to
make their own icons and have no
respect at all in artwork.
LJ User1:
Oh man, I know. I am so sick of all the mass hotlinking that seems to be the only thing that Xanga is used for! I
lost count of how many times some random person came to my journal and commented with
something like, "Um, hey, just so you know, there's a shitload of your icons hotlinked over --here--," and if they hadn't've told me, I wouldn't've known about it.
Also, the fact that Xanga appears completely
useless and
stupid is just kind of accentuated by this sort of thing, and just sours me toward it more.
LJ User2:
holy crap these sites make me REALLY pissed off
and their entry makes me laugh
"im having problems uploading icons"
UPLOAD?! LOL! no trouble THERE when you'
re just hotlinking! is "uploading" POSTING them on their "sites" to them?! LOL pppppppahtetic -____-
