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A static digital image displays repeated cyan text on a black background with green star and dot accents.

A static digital image displays repeated cyan text on a black background with green star and dot accents. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Share…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three identical horizontal
  • framed text blocks
  • corner star accents
  • dotted line borders

Dense Caption

The image shows three identical horizontal rows of cyan pixelated text reading "And the Lies just won't stop Slipping" against a solid black background. Each row is bordered by small green stars at corners and dotted lines along edges, forming a frame-like structure. The text uses a retro digital font with visible pixelation typical of early internet graphics. Green star icons appear in all four corners of each framed section, while short green dotted lines connect the corner stars to form partial borders around each textual block.

Description

  • A static digital image displays repeated cyan text on a black background with green star and dot accents.

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
  • 200801061157021393390359

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text black background green stars
  • repeated phrase And the Lies just won't stop Slipping
  • pixelated font frame border
  • green star corner accents

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three identical horizontal rows

Visible Text

  • And the Lies just won't stop Slipping

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black background
  • green star accents
  • pixelated font
  • repeated phrase
  • frame-like border
  • dotted line connections

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801061157021393390359
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/17/173a610c79dbfcf7cafcc97560e3713b2ab7cecc44f5b983d72c688bc5173215.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
Archive ID
173a610c79dbfcf7
SHA-256
173a610c79dbfcf7cafcc97560e3713b2ab7cecc44f5b983d72c688bc5173215
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:07 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094533

OpenAI category scores

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A static digital image displays repeated cyan text on a black background with green star and dot accents.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 08:18 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,019 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,166, response 651

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • repetitive (mood, 0.80)
  • stressed (mood, 0.80)
  • urgent (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • green

Composition

  • three identical horizontal
  • framed text blocks
  • corner star accents
  • dotted line borders

Dense Caption

The image shows three identical horizontal rows of cyan pixelated text reading "And the Lies just won't stop Slipping" against a solid black background. Each row is bordered by small green stars at corners and dotted lines along edges, forming a frame-like structure. The text uses a retro digital font with visible pixelation typical of early internet graphics. Green star icons appear in all four corners of each framed section, while short green dotted lines connect the corner stars to form partial borders around each textual block.

Description

  • A static digital image displays repeated cyan text on a black background with green star and dot accents.

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
  • 200801061157021393390359

Mood

  • repetitive
  • stressed
  • urgent

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text black background green stars
  • repeated phrase And the Lies just won't stop Slipping
  • pixelated font frame border
  • green star corner accents

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three identical horizontal rows

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • And the Lies just won't stop Slipping

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black background
  • green star accents
  • pixelated font
  • repeated phrase
  • frame-like border
  • dotted line connections
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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
200801061157021393390359
Archive entry
200801061157021393390359.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 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#200801061157021393390359.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801061157021393390359.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016