A 48x48 pixel animated buddy icon with a black background and green text, displayed as a contact sheet of three frames showing sequential text changes.

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A 48x48 pixel animated buddy icon with a black background and green text, displayed as a contact sheet of three frames showing sequential text changes.

A 48x48 pixel animated buddy icon with a black background and green text, displayed as a contact sheet of three frames showing sequential text changes. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM budd…

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Animation

frame 0 shows 'be yourself!' and 'you're doing it wrong'; frame 1 shows 'no one can ever tell you' replacing previous text; frame 2 is blank/empty

Animation Summary

Three-frame animation showing sequential text changes: 'be yourself!' and 'you're doing it wrong' in first frame, replaced by 'no one can ever tell you' in second frame; third frame empty

Composition

contact sheet layout with three frames showing sequential text changes; left frame top-left text, middle frame centered text, right empty space

Dense Caption

The image shows a static contact-sheet layout containing three sampled frames from an animated AIM buddy icon. Each frame features bright green pixelated text on a dark background with abstract yellow-green digital noise patterns. The leftmost frame displays 'be yourself!' in two lines at the top-left, followed by 'you're doing it wrong' stacked below. The middle frame shows 'no one can ever tell you' across three lines centered horizontally. The rightmost section is empty gray space indicating transparency or unused area. Text uses a retro digital font with visible pixelation and slight dithering effects. Background consists of dark black areas interspersed with yellow-green abstract noise resembling static or corrupted data. All text appears to be part of the same animation sequence, with each frame showing different segments of the full message. The icon maintains consistent color scheme (green text on dark background) across all visible frames.

Description

A 48x48 pixel animated buddy icon with a black background and green text, displayed as a contact sheet of three frames showing sequential text changes.

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"beyourselfaim","basis":"both","confidence":0.8,"evidence":"text content matches theme"}

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • category tags like 'iconupload' not visually verifiable

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text content matches 'beyourself' theme

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beyourselfaim buddy icon
  • be yourself you're doing it wrong animation
  • no one can ever tell you text meme
  • green pixelated AIM icon
  • retro digital text animation

Preprocessing Notes

contact sheet layout (2x2), sampledFrameCount=3, sourceFrameCount=3, reviewImagePixels=512x512, gray transparency background in unused section

Safety Notes

  • text contains sarcastic message but no explicit content or nudity

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • alt: beyourselfaim suggests possible name or theme; category hints indicate icon type and upload context

Visible Text

  • be yourself!
  • you're doing it wrong
  • no one can ever tell you

Visually Supported Entities

  • beyourself meme reference

Wordwall

  • green pixelated text
  • black background
  • yellow-green digital noise
  • retro digital font
  • text 'be yourself!'
  • text 'you're doing it wrong'
  • text 'no one can ever tell you'
  • stacked text layout
  • pixelation artifacts
  • dithering effects
  • abstract static-like patterns
  • centered text frame
  • top-left text frame
  • gray transparency background
  • contact sheet layout
  • 3 sampled frames
  • sequential text animation
  • digital corruption aesthetic
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • message progression

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures

Source title
beyourselfaim
Category
icon / iconupload / buddypics / beyourselfaim
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 01:34 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/76/767741bd8ed0f2c6ec2ba28cd773ebc1a7e0eb5a6b2862c8b9e680092a610e6a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:06 UTC
Archive ID
767741bd8ed0f2c6
SHA-256
767741bd8ed0f2c6ec2ba28cd773ebc1a7e0eb5a6b2862c8b9e680092a610e6a
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:11 UTC
Run
104
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096646

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.910772onnx/unsafe0.096646onnx/nsfl0.048527onnx/nsfw0.048119
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 11, 2026 at 08:37 UTC
Run
27
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
safe
Overall score
0.950000

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flaglegacy/manual-review0.000000falselegacy/nsfw0.000000false
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A 48x48 pixel animated buddy icon with a black background and green text, displayed as a contact sheet of three frames showing sequential text changes.

Reviewed
July 11, 2026 at 08:37 UTC
Run
27
Version
v3
Elapsed
17,186 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,927, response 1,082

Review tags

  • low resolution (style, 0.95)
  • pixelated (style, 0.95)
  • green text (color, 0.90)
  • animation frame (medium, 0.90)
  • beyourself (subject, 0.85)
  • sarcasm (mood, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • text meme (subject, 0.75)
  • digital noise (background, 0.70)

Animation

frame 0 shows 'be yourself!' and 'you're doing it wrong'; frame 1 shows 'no one can ever tell you' replacing previous text; frame 2 is blank/empty

Animation Summary

Three-frame animation showing sequential text changes: 'be yourself!' and 'you're doing it wrong' in first frame, replaced by 'no one can ever tell you' in second frame; third frame empty

Colors

  • green
  • black
  • yellow-green
  • gray

Composition

contact sheet layout with three frames showing sequential text changes; left frame top-left text, middle frame centered text, right empty space

Dense Caption

The image shows a static contact-sheet layout containing three sampled frames from an animated AIM buddy icon. Each frame features bright green pixelated text on a dark background with abstract yellow-green digital noise patterns. The leftmost frame displays 'be yourself!' in two lines at the top-left, followed by 'you're doing it wrong' stacked below. The middle frame shows 'no one can ever tell you' across three lines centered horizontally. The rightmost section is empty gray space indicating transparency or unused area. Text uses a retro digital font with visible pixelation and slight dithering effects. Background consists of dark black areas interspersed with yellow-green abstract noise resembling static or corrupted data. All text appears to be part of the same animation sequence, with each frame showing different segments of the full message. The icon maintains consistent color scheme (green text on dark background) across all visible frames.

Description

A 48x48 pixel animated buddy icon with a black background and green text, displayed as a contact sheet of three frames showing sequential text changes.

Identity Hypotheses

  • {"name":"beyourselfaim","basis":"both","confidence":0.8,"evidence":"text content matches theme"}

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • category tags like 'iconupload' not visually verifiable

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text content matches 'beyourself' theme

Mood

  • sarcastic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beyourselfaim buddy icon
  • be yourself you're doing it wrong animation
  • no one can ever tell you text meme
  • green pixelated AIM icon
  • retro digital text animation

Preprocessing Notes

contact sheet layout (2x2), sampledFrameCount=3, sourceFrameCount=3, reviewImagePixels=512x512, gray transparency background in unused section

Safety Notes

  • text contains sarcastic message but no explicit content or nudity

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • alt: beyourselfaim suggests possible name or theme; category hints indicate icon type and upload context

Style

  • pixelated retro digital art

Visible Text

  • be yourself!
  • you're doing it wrong
  • no one can ever tell you

Visually Supported Entities

  • beyourself meme reference

Wordwall

  • green pixelated text
  • black background
  • yellow-green digital noise
  • retro digital font
  • text 'be yourself!'
  • text 'you're doing it wrong'
  • text 'no one can ever tell you'
  • stacked text layout
  • pixelation artifacts
  • dithering effects
  • abstract static-like patterns
  • centered text frame
  • top-left text frame
  • gray transparency background
  • contact sheet layout
  • 3 sampled frames
  • sequential text animation
  • digital corruption aesthetic
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • message progression
Raw JSON
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Full source records (1)

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures (wayback-coolbuddy-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Type
Wayback historical mega-gallery crawl
Category
icon / iconupload / buddypics / beyourselfaim
Alt
beyourselfaim
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 01:34 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
large category portal with broad AIM and messenger icon coverage