How to put a picture of yourself as your icon on aim?

Why does AIM keep removing my icon?

• I cannot seem to keep my icon on there. It keeps removing it and I can't understand why. It seems to happen with this ONE picture. It's a piece of artwork, which is my own work. I mean, there is nothing wrong with it, it's cartoon-style pony. It goes up for a while and then AIM removes it and WON'T let me put it back up? Any idea why it's doing this and how I can fix it?

• Answer:

  You mean the "buddy icon" you use for AIM? Did you check the image requirements? Even though your image may appear to be the correct size, there's usually a file size minimum and maximum. "Keep in mind that your buddy icon needs to be 48 x 48 pixels and no more than 7K size." I don't know why it's allowed for brief periods, but I'm pretty sure size is the problem. (I can not respond to comments you make here as doing so would be considered chatting which is a violation. You should consider allowing email in your Yahoo! Answers profile. At NO time will anyone see your email address when emailing through Y!A. Email addresses remain anonymous at all times. When replying to a Y!A message from another user, there's a "Reply to this message" link with all messages you receive that you click on to respond) http://www.aim.com/didyouknow/createbuddyicons.adp