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You said:

Back to the blue fish saga while I have uou at full throttle, what I would most like would be a small blue fish (icon) pointing at my inputs and get rid of those ugly big boxes with a letter of the alphabet in them.

ChatGPT said:

Okay, I think I get the spirit of what you’re after, even if the exact target is still a bit fuzzy — and you’re right to want this phrased cleanly rather than drowned in UI jargon.

Right now, the ChatGPT interface marks speakers with those chunky letter-in-a-box avatars (big “U” for you, “C” or logo for me). You’d much rather have something lighter and more directional: a small blue fish-like icon pointing at your inputs, basically a visual cue saying “this bit came from me,” without the visual clunkiness.

Here’s the straight reality check first, then what can be done.

At the moment, you cannot replace those boxes inside the official ChatGPT UI. They’re hard-coded interface elements. No setting, theme, accessibility toggle, or hidden preference allows swapping them out for a custom icon, fish or otherwise. If OpenAI ever adds per-user theming or avatar minimization, this would be exactly the kind of refinement it would enable — but as of now, it’s not exposed.

That said, there are three practical workarounds, depending on how stubborn you feel today.

The cleanest hack is browser-side CSS injection. With a tool like Stylus (Firefox/Chrome), you can hide the avatar boxes entirely and optionally insert a tiny icon (or emoji, or SVG fish) before user messages. This doesn’t touch the server, doesn’t break functionality, and only affects your view. It’s surprisingly effective if your tolerance for tinkering is nonzero.

A lighter version is simply avatar suppression: hide the boxes altogether so the conversation reads like a transcript. Many people find that instantly calmer. No fish, but also no alphabet soup.

The nuclear option is copying conversations into a markdown or text editor where you fully control styling. That’s obviously not interactive anymore, but for reading or archiving, it gives you absolute visual sanity.

If you want, I can:
– give you a short Stylus snippet that hides the boxes, or
– help you replace them with a small blue arrow/fish icon, or
– talk through what an ideal UI version would look like so you can decide whether this is worth the trouble.

Before I launch into code or specifics, just tell me which direction you want to go: hide, replace, or dream spec.

You said:

You don't get me; I should have said that this is what I want on my cloud backup on Google Blogger. All I need from you is a blue fish icon I can put in the right place.

ChatGPT said:

You said:

Ok good shading but stuid eye and too big.

ChatGPT said:

Got it! You want the same small blue fish, but:

• Eye: simpler, less cartoonish—more minimalistic or icon-like.

• Size: smaller, suitable for inline use in a blog.

• Style: keep the nice shading and clean look, but reduce “cuteness” in favor of subtlety.

I can generate a refined version with those tweaks. Do you want it transparent background again for easy placement?

You said:

Good point.

ChatGPT said:

You said:

About a third that size; do I just save it somewhere and then post it when desired?

ChatGPT said:

Exactly—that’s all you need to do. For your blog:

1. Save the file somewhere convenient on your computer or cloud storage. You might want to rename it something simple like blue-fish-icon.png.

2. Upload or insert it whenever you want in a post. On Blogger, you can usually do this via the “Insert Image” button in the editor. Since it has a transparent background, it’ll sit neatly inline with your text.

3. Resize in the editor if needed. Most blogging editors let you click the image and drag corners to scale it down—so if you want it even smaller than the saved file, you can adjust visually.

If you want, I can generate a tiny, ready-to-use version that’s roughly a third the current size so it’s basically perfect for inline text without you having to scale it down. That way it’s blog-ready from the start. Do you want me to do that?

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