It's almost that time of year again where Santa comes down your chimney and changes your logo on VLC ....
Every December on around the 20th, the VLC logo on the player gets a Christmas decoration. A Santa hat. Apparently, some people don't like this. It doesn't bother me but if your one of those who don't want to see it, follow these instructions.
Open VLC and press CTRL + P to go into preferences or go into Tools and then Preferences.
Click on the All button, bottom left-hand corner of screen. And then go to Interface -> Main interfaces -> Qt and scroll down on the right to find the setting Allow automatic icon changes. Uncheck to see the Santa hat disappear.
Or check this if you want it back.
Then Save. Now restart VLC.