(courtesy of The Somnolescent Archives)

Neopets especially shows its age when you get a whiff of the buddy icons page in the referrals section. Yes, Neopets had many, many official buddy icons you could simply click on (assuming you had AOL Instant Messenger open) and have a shiny new buddy icon to let your friends know what you've been into lately.

We're talking nearly 800 of the damn things.

Now, AIM is long-gone and Neopets is (as of 2021) in the middle of a giant redesign to make the site less Flash-reliant and better on phones. As a result, who knows how much of its sprawling historical network will be lost after the old layout is officially deprecated. (Consider that Neopets disallows Wayback Machine crawls.) The referral section is chief among what's likely to be lost.

I've elected to save every last buddy icon on offer and sort them into more easily digestible, basic HTML galleries. This index page contains some miscellaneous ones that didn't fit anywhere else. When we're all using sites that don't mind 50x50 icons, I'll see you there with one of these.

Also check out our gallery of Neopets' LiveJournal/MSN Messenger icons!

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