Do you mean icons? Like icons for applications?
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Do you mean the previews of files in your file browser (dolphin, nemo, nautilus, thunar)?
Using KDE, it's ~/.cache/thumbnails
Indeed, and for details on why https://specifications.freedesktop.org/thumbnail-spec/latest/directory.html
Maybe it's desktop environment dependent. Better to help yourself by: find / -iregex '.*jpg$' -o -iregex '.*jpeg$'
find ~ ... would be quicker, auto generated files are likely stored in ~/. cache per-profile.
Quicker... as in for a first-stab, then /var. Rather than scanning the whole disk.
You could definitely be right. I think I remeber storage of some icons under /usr/local/share/... but I could be wrong!