Black background with white pixelated text repeating 'be yourself...' and 'its less work' in a pattern, where the word 'work' alternates between having a period or an asterisk

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Black background with white pixelated text repeating 'be yourself...' and 'its less work' in a pattern, where the word 'work' alternates between having a period or an asterisk

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Animation

  • the word 'work' alternates between a period and an asterisk in the middle across observations

Animation Summary

  • The word 'work' alternates between a period and an asterisk in the middle across observations

Composition

  • centered text
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

The image displays a black background with white pixelated text arranged in a 3x5 grid. Each cell contains either "be yourself..." (with ellipsis) or "its less work" (with lowercase 'i'). In the middle row, the word "work" alternates between having an asterisk (*) and a period (.). The text is rendered in a retro digital font typical of early internet graphics. All cells maintain consistent spacing and alignment across observations.

Description

Black background with white pixelated text repeating 'be yourself...' and 'its less work' in a pattern, where the word 'work' alternates between having a period or an asterisk

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080406184717977629940

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • be yourself its less work
  • asterisk replaces period on work
  • pixelated text

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined animationSummary: The word 'work' alternates between a period and an asterisk in the middle row across observations.
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  • quarantined animation: the word 'work' alternates between a period and an asterisk in the middle row across observations
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Visible Text

  • be yourself...
  • its less work

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • be yourself...
  • its less work
  • asterisk replaces period on 'work'
  • retro digital font

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080406184717977629940
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
489 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f8/f8386d3506b4419234bae4802416858de57f34b0196c072f22f46ce86a1e5850.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC
Archive ID
f8386d3506b44192
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:06 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Black background with white pixelated text repeating 'be yourself...' and 'its less work' in a pattern, where the word 'work' alternates between having a period or an asterisk

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 00:47 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,260 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 683

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Animation

  • the word 'work' alternates between a period and an asterisk in the middle across observations

Animation Summary

  • The word 'work' alternates between a period and an asterisk in the middle across observations

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  • black
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  • centered text
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

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Description

Black background with white pixelated text repeating 'be yourself...' and 'its less work' in a pattern, where the word 'work' alternates between having a period or an asterisk

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

Metadata Only Entities

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  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080406184717977629940

Mood

  • neutral
  • minimalist

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • be yourself its less work
  • asterisk replaces period on work
  • pixelated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with white pixelated text repeating 'be yourself...' and 'its less work' in a grid pattern, where the word 'work' alternates between having a period or an asterisk.
  • quarantined animationSummary: The word 'work' alternates between a period and an asterisk in the middle row across observations.
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  • quarantined animation: the word 'work' alternates between a period and an asterisk in the middle row across observations
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • be yourself...
  • its less work

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • be yourself...
  • its less work
  • asterisk replaces period on 'work'
  • retro digital font
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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
20080406184717977629940
Archive entry
20080406184717977629940.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 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