The flat design revolution, which is now so deeply embedded in UI/UX we no longer bother to name it, has now moved its quest to make all icons monochrome, abstract and denuded of detail to the point where the "profile" icon for Tidal now appears to be some sort of glyph of a insect or fairy

Following historical trends, before long these icons will start to be used as analogues for their sounds, creating the basis of a primitive alphabet. What you see below will someday be the character for "P".

@mcc "Searching…"
"Are you still there?"
@patridge @mcc
Is that an ambulance rocket?

@slowtiger @mcc Sure, why not. 🤷

(Or…it's a turret from the Portal game series. Highly recommend it, if you haven't played them. Available on PC/Mac and just about every platform back to the Xbox 360 and PS3.)