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by Tadpole9181 813 days ago
They're a developer making a cutesy little nostalgia toy, not an artist. I'm sure they'd be ecstatic for you to donate a couple hundred for them to hire a professional humam?

In the interim, this works fine and looks better than what most developers can make themselves.

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Personally speaking, I think ugly programmer art is better-looking than an AI icon. Even if it was a two-tone vector silhouette of a slice of bread, it would be more evocative and readable to me.

The app is theirs, and they should feel proud enough to make an original icon for it too. I agree with the parent, the AI-generated icon would be the first thing stopping me from spending $1.99 on this.

I'd rather see an mspaint drawing.