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Pixelated cyan text on white background with black outline, arranged in four sections forming a question about love and walking by.

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Pixelated cyan text on white background with black outline, arranged in four sections forming a question about love and walking by.

Pixelated cyan text on white background with black outline, arranged in four sections forming a question about love and walking by. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four sections of text
  • top-left, top-right, bottom-left arrangement
  • faint gray shapes behind text

Dense Caption

Cyan pixelated text with black outlines appears across the image. Top-left section reads "do you believe"; top-right section reads "in love at first sight?"; bottom-left section reads "or should i walk by again". The background is white with faint gray abstract shapes behind the text. All text uses a consistent pixelated font style.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on white background with black outline, arranged in four sections forming a question about love and walking by.

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
  • 200801311447381012691023

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pixelated text love question
  • in love at first sight or walk by again
  • text-based buddy icon cyan black white
  • four section romantic question

Visible Text

  • do you believe
  • in love at first sight?
  • or should i walk by again

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black outlines
  • white background
  • pixelated font
  • four sections
  • question format
  • faint gray shapes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801311447381012691023
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/18/18b05e6acfba5989576e9464abb84a696abbb487e9ac4349db4ff967ef63b08e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC
Archive ID
18b05e6acfba5989
SHA-256
18b05e6acfba5989576e9464abb84a696abbb487e9ac4349db4ff967ef63b08e
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
0.195940

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cyan text on white background with black outline, arranged in four sections forming a question about love and walking by.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 13:58 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,507 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 622

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • questioning (mood, 0.80)
  • romantic (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • four sections of text
  • top-left, top-right, bottom-left arrangement
  • faint gray shapes behind text

Dense Caption

Cyan pixelated text with black outlines appears across the image. Top-left section reads "do you believe"; top-right section reads "in love at first sight?"; bottom-left section reads "or should i walk by again". The background is white with faint gray abstract shapes behind the text. All text uses a consistent pixelated font style.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on white background with black outline, arranged in four sections forming a question about love and walking by.

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
  • 200801311447381012691023

Mood

  • questioning
  • romantic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pixelated text love question
  • in love at first sight or walk by again
  • text-based buddy icon cyan black white
  • four section romantic question

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • do you believe
  • in love at first sight?
  • or should i walk by again

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black outlines
  • white background
  • pixelated font
  • four sections
  • question format
  • faint gray shapes
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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
200801311447381012691023
Archive entry
200801311447381012691023.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 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#200801311447381012691023.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801311447381012691023.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016