Pixelated text repeats 'be who you be' and 'not what others want to see' with punctuation variations on a black background.

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Pixelated text repeats 'be who you be' and 'not what others want to see' with punctuation variations on a black background.

Pixelated text repeats 'be who you be' and 'not what others want to see' with punctuation variations on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Animation

  • punctuation symbols change across frames: + → † → × → . → ... → : → .

Animation Summary

Punctuation symbols in 'to see' sequence change across frames: plus sign → cross → multiplication symbol → period → ellipsis → colon → period.

Composition

  • centered
  • horizontal alignment
  • repetitive layout

Dense Caption

Black background displays white pixelated text repeating 'be who you be who you want to be' in three rows. Second row contains 'not what not what not what others wanothers wanothers want to see' followed by alternating symbols: plus, cross, and period. Third row repeats the first pattern with punctuation variations including periods and ellipses. Text uses a fixed-width font typical of early digital displays.

Description

  • Pixelated text repeats 'be who you be' and 'not what others want to see' with punctuation variations on a black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • repeating text pixel art
  • black background white text animation
  • punctuation variation icon
  • philosophical message digital art

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: centered rows

Visible Text

  • be who you be who you want to be
  • not what not what not what others wanothers wanothers want to see
  • to see+
  • to see†
  • to see×
  • to see.
  • to see...
  • to see:
  • to see

Visually Supported Entities

  • text-based icon

Wordwall

  • repeating text
  • pixelated font
  • black background
  • white text
  • punctuation variations
  • fixed-width typeface

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802251231231691124660
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
547 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
5d35ebedbc2e7aee
SHA-256
5d35ebedbc2e7aee3ff4dbc04d81a4c0352dcc99168cc5f89df8889ae02f0b53
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:36 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079350

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text repeats 'be who you be' and 'not what others want to see' with punctuation variations on a black background.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 03:49 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,790 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 676

Review tags

  • punctuation variation (action, 0.80)
  • repeating (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • philosophical (mood, 0.80)
  • reflective (mood, 0.80)
  • symbols (object, 0.80)
  • punctuation symbols change across frames (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital (style, 0.80)
  • monospaced text (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • repeating
  • punctuation variation

Animation

  • punctuation symbols change across frames: + → † → × → . → ... → : → .

Animation Summary

Punctuation symbols in 'to see' sequence change across frames: plus sign → cross → multiplication symbol → period → ellipsis → colon → period.

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered
  • horizontal alignment
  • repetitive layout

Dense Caption

Black background displays white pixelated text repeating 'be who you be who you want to be' in three rows. Second row contains 'not what not what not what others wanothers wanothers want to see' followed by alternating symbols: plus, cross, and period. Third row repeats the first pattern with punctuation variations including periods and ellipses. Text uses a fixed-width font typical of early digital displays.

Description

  • Pixelated text repeats 'be who you be' and 'not what others want to see' with punctuation variations on a black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • reflective
  • philosophical

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • repeating text pixel art
  • black background white text animation
  • punctuation variation icon
  • philosophical message digital art

Objects

  • symbols: +, †, ×, ., ..., :

Preprocessing Notes

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Style

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  • low-resolution digital

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

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  • to see×
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  • to see...
  • to see:
  • to see

Visually Supported Entities

  • text-based icon

Wordwall

  • repeating text
  • pixelated font
  • black background
  • white text
  • punctuation variations
  • fixed-width typeface
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
200802251231231691124660
Archive entry
200802251231231691124660.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture