Are all of these really the same? Some examples look quite different
About a dozen years ago someone made the case for their being only one cloud icon, I think a lot cleaner
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/there-is-only-one-cloud-icon-...
I've noticed this to hold over the years, almost always. I actually end up laughing a bit when I see cloud depictions in design specs these days because it's the same damn cloud every time.
I actually wrote something about 12 years ago where I caught the Debian swirl on this music label https://www.discogs.com/label/144485-Balance-Alliance
And someone pointed out that it's a Photoshop brush pattern. Although I'm not so sure that's the connection. It was sometimes just straight up Debian red https://www.discogs.com/release/1841959-Various-Balance-Esse...
Here's the old post with link rots and everything https://kristopolous.blogspot.com/2011/11/what-nice-logo.htm...
This story about finding assets in common across various forms of media is so old and it's always the same examples despite there being way more out there.
The only people lazier than those who used these assets are the ones parroting stories about them almost word for word.
- Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble
- Turok
Several of the other DK images don't look right, but it's hard to be sure - they could be heavily edited, and some of the samples are quite small.
Some of the Banjo-Kazooie ones also don't look right but are hard to be sure of.
If you can clearly highlight the matching unique features on all of those images that would be interesting to see!