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Pixelated text on a split background with two star icons, one cyan and one magenta.

Pixelated text on a split background with two star icons, one cyan and one magenta. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text
  • star icons placed next to 'were'

Dense Caption

The image displays four quadrants of pixelated white text reading "I use To luv The guy Thought you were" against solid backgrounds. Top-left is bright pink; top-right is light purple; bottom-left is cyan; bottom-right is lavender. A small cyan star icon appears in the top-left quadrant next to 'were'; a magenta star icon appears in the bottom-left quadrant next to 'were'. All text and icons are static with no visible animation.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a split background with two star icons, one cyan and one magenta.

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
  • 200804121754161998849242

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text four quadrants
  • cyan magenta star icons
  • bright pink light purple cyan lavender backgrounds
  • text reads I use To luv The guy Thought you were

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: text arranged in columns

Subjects

  • star icons

Visible Text

  • I use
  • To luv
  • The guy
  • Thought you
  • were

Wordwall

  • pixelated white text
  • split background
  • four quadrants
  • cyan star icon
  • magenta star icon
  • bright pink background
  • light purple background
  • cyan background
  • lavender background
  • text reads 'I use To luv The guy Thought you were'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804121754161998849242
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
939 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/15/156fc91ff0c5d16a02ac570ff4bbf44f45cd30ca57167c9267d81fcd148e83f0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC
Archive ID
156fc91ff0c5d16a
SHA-256
156fc91ff0c5d16a02ac570ff4bbf44f45cd30ca57167c9267d81fcd148e83f0
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:05 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.182922

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text on a split background with two star icons, one cyan and one magenta.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 03:02 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,218 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 693

Review tags

  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • cyan star (color, 0.80)
  • lavender (color, 0.80)
  • light purple (color, 0.80)
  • magenta star (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • split background (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • star icons (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • bright pink
  • light purple
  • cyan
  • lavender
  • white
  • cyan star
  • magenta star

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text
  • star icons placed next to 'were'

Dense Caption

The image displays four quadrants of pixelated white text reading "I use To luv The guy Thought you were" against solid backgrounds. Top-left is bright pink; top-right is light purple; bottom-left is cyan; bottom-right is lavender. A small cyan star icon appears in the top-left quadrant next to 'were'; a magenta star icon appears in the bottom-left quadrant next to 'were'. All text and icons are static with no visible animation.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a split background with two star icons, one cyan and one magenta.

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
  • 200804121754161998849242

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text four quadrants
  • cyan magenta star icons
  • bright pink light purple cyan lavender backgrounds
  • text reads I use To luv The guy Thought you were

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: text arranged in columns

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
  • split background

Subjects

  • star icons

Visible Text

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  • To luv
  • The guy
  • Thought you
  • were

Wordwall

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  • split background
  • four quadrants
  • cyan star icon
  • magenta star icon
  • bright pink background
  • light purple background
  • cyan background
  • lavender background
  • text reads 'I use To luv The guy Thought you were'
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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
200804121754161998849242
Archive entry
200804121754161998849242.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

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804121754161998849242.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804121754161998849242.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016