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Pixelated text 'try and guess' in black on cyan background with pink and light blue asterisks below.

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Pixelated text 'try and guess' in black on cyan background with pink and light blue asterisks below.

Pixelated text 'try and guess' in black on cyan background with pink and light blue asterisks below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Composition

  • vertical text stack
  • horizontal asterisk
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays pixelated black text reading 'try', 'and', 'guess' stacked vertically. Below the text, a horizontal row of five asterisk-shaped pixels: first two are bright pink, third is light purple, fourth and fifth are bright pink. The same layout appears on both sides of the image.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'try and guess' in black on cyan background with pink and light blue asterisks below.

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 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
  • 20071016155446723510041

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background try and guess pink asterisks
  • pixelated text try and guess cyan
  • try and guess pixel art cyan background
  • five asterisks try and guess

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: horizontal asterisk row

Visible Text

  • try
  • and
  • guess

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • black pixelated text
  • 'try'
  • 'and'
  • 'guess'
  • five asterisks
  • pink asterisks
  • light blue asterisk
  • stacked vertical text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071016155446723510041
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
280 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/19/19070c94068a11cc9ea9b691acecc1f053f9b65017e9a3e003ac75d2a24b6a75.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC
Archive ID
19070c94068a11cc
SHA-256
19070c94068a11cc9ea9b691acecc1f053f9b65017e9a3e003ac75d2a24b6a75
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.117149

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.889581onnx/unsafe0.117149onnx/nsfw0.078052onnx/nsfl0.039097
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text 'try and guess' in black on cyan background with pink and light blue asterisks below.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 10:33 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,202 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 632

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • light purple (color, 0.80)
  • no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • static image (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • bright pink
  • light purple

Composition

  • vertical text stack
  • horizontal asterisk
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays pixelated black text reading 'try', 'and', 'guess' stacked vertically. Below the text, a horizontal row of five asterisk-shaped pixels: first two are bright pink, third is light purple, fourth and fifth are bright pink. The same layout appears on both sides of the image.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'try and guess' in black on cyan background with pink and light blue asterisks below.

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 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
  • 20071016155446723510041

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background try and guess pink asterisks
  • pixelated text try and guess cyan
  • try and guess pixel art cyan background
  • five asterisks try and guess

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: horizontal asterisk row

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • try
  • and
  • guess

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • black pixelated text
  • 'try'
  • 'and'
  • 'guess'
  • five asterisks
  • pink asterisks
  • light blue asterisk
  • stacked vertical text
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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
20071016155446723510041
Archive entry
20071016155446723510041.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 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#20071016155446723510041.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071016155446723510041.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016