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Blue background with repeated black text patterns and cyan cursor-like symbols blinking at the end of lines.

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Blue background with repeated black text patterns and cyan cursor-like symbols blinking at the end of lines.

Blue background with repeated black text patterns and cyan cursor-like symbols blinking at the end of lines. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • cyan cursor symbols blink sequentially at end of 'eel with' lines

Animation Summary

  • Cyan cursor symbols blink sequentially at the end of 'eel with' lines across observations.

Composition

  • horizontal of text
  • centered alignment
  • uniform spacing between lines

Dense Caption

The image displays a blue background filled with repeating rows of black pixelated text. Each row contains 'm a awsom a awsom a awso', followed by 'Fashion Fashion Fashion', then 'signer causigner causigner cau', and finally 'I AM I AM I AM'. Below these lines, the phrase 'eel with' appears repeatedly, each ending with a cyan cursor symbol that blinks in sequence across observations. The text is rendered in a low-resolution, monospaced font typical of early digital interfaces.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated black text patterns and cyan cursor-like symbols blinking at the end of lines.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801031044541246770356

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background cyan cursor text
  • repeating fashion am text
  • pixelated monospaced animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: repeating black text rows
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows of text

Visible Text

  • m a awsom a awsom a awso
  • Fashion Fashion Fashion
  • signer causigner causigner cau
  • I AM I AM I AM
  • eel with

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • repeating black text
  • cyan cursor symbols
  • pixelated monospaced font
  • 'm a awsom' pattern
  • 'Fashion Fashion Fashion' pattern
  • 'I AM I AM I AM' pattern
  • 'eel with' phrase

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801031044541246770356
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/0d/0d6c5091feda5e0ba8278e9bff1b54eca3abd212ed296d41013f07e350b7098b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC
Archive ID
0d6c5091feda5e0b
SHA-256
0d6c5091feda5e0ba8278e9bff1b54eca3abd212ed296d41013f07e350b7098b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:57 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.135169

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with repeated black text patterns and cyan cursor-like symbols blinking at the end of lines.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 07:15 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,201 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 756

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • digital (mood, 0.80)
  • static (mood, 0.80)
  • text based (mood, 0.80)
  • monospaced text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive layout (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • cyan cursor symbols blink sequentially at end of 'eel with' lines

Animation

  • cyan cursor symbols blink sequentially at end of 'eel with' lines

Animation Summary

  • Cyan cursor symbols blink sequentially at the end of 'eel with' lines across observations.

Colors

  • blue
  • black
  • cyan

Composition

  • horizontal of text
  • centered alignment
  • uniform spacing between lines

Dense Caption

The image displays a blue background filled with repeating rows of black pixelated text. Each row contains 'm a awsom a awsom a awso', followed by 'Fashion Fashion Fashion', then 'signer causigner causigner cau', and finally 'I AM I AM I AM'. Below these lines, the phrase 'eel with' appears repeatedly, each ending with a cyan cursor symbol that blinks in sequence across observations. The text is rendered in a low-resolution, monospaced font typical of early digital interfaces.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated black text patterns and cyan cursor-like symbols blinking at the end of lines.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801031044541246770356

Mood

  • static
  • digital
  • text-based

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background cyan cursor text
  • repeating fashion am text
  • pixelated monospaced animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: repeating black text rows
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows of text

Style

  • pixelated
  • monospaced text
  • repetitive layout

Visible Text

  • m a awsom a awsom a awso
  • Fashion Fashion Fashion
  • signer causigner causigner cau
  • I AM I AM I AM
  • eel with

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • repeating black text
  • cyan cursor symbols
  • pixelated monospaced font
  • 'm a awsom' pattern
  • 'Fashion Fashion Fashion' pattern
  • 'I AM I AM I AM' pattern
  • 'eel with' phrase
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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
200801031044541246770356
Archive entry
200801031044541246770356.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 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#200801031044541246770356.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801031044541246770356.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016