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Pixelated text repeats 'BOY.. IM BETTER OFF WITHOUT YOU<3' in pink on black with scattered white and gray stars.

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Pixelated text repeats 'BOY.. IM BETTER OFF WITHOUT YOU<3' in pink on black with scattered white and gray stars.

Pixelated text repeats 'BOY.. IM BETTER OFF WITHOUT YOU<3' in pink on black with scattered white and gray stars. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • stars shift position between frames

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift position between frames while text remains static.

Composition

  • repeated text blocks
  • star scatter
  • bottom-right rectangle

Dense Caption

Black background contains repeated pixelated text blocks: 'BOY..', 'IM BETTER', 'OFF WITHOUT', 'YOU<3' in bright pink. White and gray star shapes are scattered across the image, some appearing to move between frames. The text repeats four times horizontally per row with three rows visible. A solid light gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner of the frame.

Description

  • Pixelated text repeats 'BOY.. IM BETTER OFF WITHOUT YOU<3' in pink on black with scattered white and gray stars.

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
  • 200709201645441021301537

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink pixelated text stars
  • repeated YOU<3 emoticon
  • black background light gray rectangle

Visible Text

  • BOY..
  • IM BETTER
  • OFF WITHOUT
  • YOU<3

Wordwall

  • pink pixelated text
  • black background
  • white stars
  • gray stars
  • repeated text blocks
  • YOU<3 emoticon
  • light gray rectangle

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709201645441021301537
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
908 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/09/09041f4412d9fa9a3e3594f15bde98aaf9308ba9a781a05a552904152edd5b42.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
Archive ID
09041f4412d9fa9a
SHA-256
09041f4412d9fa9a3e3594f15bde98aaf9308ba9a781a05a552904152edd5b42
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:52 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.523147

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text repeats 'BOY.. IM BETTER OFF WITHOUT YOU<3' in pink on black with scattered white and gray stars.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 03:18 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,515 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,125, response 657

Review tags

  • scattered stars move between frames (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • light gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • scattered stars move between frames

Animation

  • stars shift position between frames

Animation Summary

  • Stars shift position between frames while text remains static.

Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • repeated text blocks
  • star scatter
  • bottom-right rectangle

Dense Caption

Black background contains repeated pixelated text blocks: 'BOY..', 'IM BETTER', 'OFF WITHOUT', 'YOU<3' in bright pink. White and gray star shapes are scattered across the image, some appearing to move between frames. The text repeats four times horizontally per row with three rows visible. A solid light gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner of the frame.

Description

  • Pixelated text repeats 'BOY.. IM BETTER OFF WITHOUT YOU<3' in pink on black with scattered white and gray stars.

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
  • 200709201645441021301537

Mood

  • sentimental
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink pixelated text stars
  • repeated YOU<3 emoticon
  • black background light gray rectangle

Objects

  • light gray rectangle

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • BOY..
  • IM BETTER
  • OFF WITHOUT
  • YOU<3

Wordwall

  • pink pixelated text
  • black background
  • white stars
  • gray stars
  • repeated text blocks
  • YOU<3 emoticon
  • light gray rectangle
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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
200709201645441021301537
Archive entry
200709201645441021301537.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 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

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709201645441021301537.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709201645441021301537.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016