Even Forum Signatures Have to Move with the Times

  I didn't follow too many fan forums until I got into K-pop so the first time I ever created a "signature", (that piece of text or picture that's at the end of your comments) it was for the Allkpop site with K-pop idols KARA and Girls Generation.
  The Girls Generation sig was two screencaps of my faves Jessica (and Yuri, who was, at the time, my number 2 bias in SNSD) with attention to their nicknames, the Ice Princess and Black Pearl:

Well I hadn't been on any forums much this past year, (and actually, in that time the Allkpop site has long since gone south) but when I joined the new-ish site at KAYO, I found that in the time since I'd been actively involved, the gif had replaced the picture for almost 99.9% signatures, making my old SNSD signature seem sorely out-of-date! 
  I wanted to create a gif but still wanted to use the same Jessica image, so in the end, I had to go BACK to the original source, the girls' First Japan Concert Tour DVD. Locating the performance the image of Jessica was lifted from (I'm In Love With The HERO), I was able to isolate the video of Jessica making her "Smiling" gesture and turn it into the newfangled Sica gif you see below!

ALL HAIL THE ICE PRINCESS

Gotta say, after all these years of seeing just the frozen screencap, it's rather enjoyable commenting and then seeing Jessica's lovely features "smiling" for me every time! Ain't technology grand?
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com