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Black background with white pixelated text reading "im always thinking... of u" and scattered pink plus signs in a static pattern.

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Black background with white pixelated text reading "im always thinking... of u" and scattered pink plus signs in a static pattern.

Black background with white pixelated text reading "im always thinking... of u" and scattered pink plus signs in a static pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Composition

  • text arranged in three horizontal lines
  • plus signs scattered across background

Dense Caption

The image displays a black background with white pixelated text arranged in three horizontal lines: the top line reads "im always", the middle line reads "thinking...", and the bottom line reads "of u". Pink plus signs are distributed across the background, varying in size from small dots to larger crosses. The text is rendered in a retro digital font style typical of early internet graphics. All elements remain static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text reading "im always thinking... of u" and scattered pink plus signs in a static pattern.

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
  • 20070913170938458236061

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background pink plus signs white text
  • im always thinking of u pixel art
  • retro digital font sentimentality
  • static buddy icon text only

Visible Text

  • im always
  • thinking...
  • of u

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • "im always thinking... of u"
  • pink plus signs
  • retro digital font
  • static pattern

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070913170938458236061
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
657 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/18/183ad6d65c95465f82f420a39f0a1f7c197d2a278013b84c6dd137212a0b41c6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 UTC
Archive ID
183ad6d65c95465f
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:09 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.150845

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Black background with white pixelated text reading "im always thinking... of u" and scattered pink plus signs in a static pattern.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 01:48 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,909 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 640

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • static image with no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • text arranged in three horizontal lines
  • plus signs scattered across background

Dense Caption

The image displays a black background with white pixelated text arranged in three horizontal lines: the top line reads "im always", the middle line reads "thinking...", and the bottom line reads "of u". Pink plus signs are distributed across the background, varying in size from small dots to larger crosses. The text is rendered in a retro digital font style typical of early internet graphics. All elements remain static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text reading "im always thinking... of u" and scattered pink plus signs in a static pattern.

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
  • 20070913170938458236061

Mood

  • sentimental
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background pink plus signs white text
  • im always thinking of u pixel art
  • retro digital font sentimentality
  • static buddy icon text only

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • im always
  • thinking...
  • of u

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • "im always thinking... of u"
  • pink plus signs
  • retro digital font
  • static pattern
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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
20070913170938458236061
Archive entry
20070913170938458236061.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 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#20070913170938458236061.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070913170938458236061.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016