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Black background with white pixelated text reading "It Sucks To Be Me!!!" and an orange heart symbol at the bottom right.

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Black background with white pixelated text reading "It Sucks To Be Me!!!" and an orange heart symbol at the bottom right.

Black background with white pixelated text reading "It Sucks To Be Me!!!" and an orange heart symbol at the bottom right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical text alignment
  • heart positioned to right of final line

Dense Caption

The image displays a black background with white pixelated text arranged vertically: "It" on the first line, "Sucks" on the second, "To" on the third, "Be" on the fourth, and "Me!!!" on the fifth. An orange heart symbol appears to the right of the final exclamation marks. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font style typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text reading "It Sucks To Be Me!!!" and an orange heart symbol at the bottom right.

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
  • 20071218225012342310202

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • it sucks to be me text
  • orange heart pixel art
  • black background white text
  • retro digital font humor

Visible Text

  • It
  • Sucks
  • To
  • Be
  • Me!!!

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • It Sucks To Be Me!!!
  • orange heart symbol
  • vertical text layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071218225012342310202
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
237 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC
Archive ID
1b6c4b0c3257f015
SHA-256
1b6c4b0c3257f0150d6fd78288a75a8e055a824cde9c2343b9672eae12a01ce5
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:12 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075847

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with white pixelated text reading "It Sucks To Be Me!!!" and an orange heart symbol at the bottom right.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 03:03 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,413 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 663

Review tags

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  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • self deprecating (mood, 0.80)
  • orange heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • orange

Composition

  • vertical text alignment
  • heart positioned to right of final line

Dense Caption

The image displays a black background with white pixelated text arranged vertically: "It" on the first line, "Sucks" on the second, "To" on the third, "Be" on the fourth, and "Me!!!" on the fifth. An orange heart symbol appears to the right of the final exclamation marks. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font style typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text reading "It Sucks To Be Me!!!" and an orange heart symbol at the bottom right.

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
  • 20071218225012342310202

Mood

  • humorous
  • self-deprecating

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • it sucks to be me text
  • orange heart pixel art
  • black background white text
  • retro digital font humor

Objects

  • orange heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • It
  • Sucks
  • To
  • Be
  • Me!!!

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • It Sucks To Be Me!!!
  • orange heart symbol
  • vertical text layout
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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
20071218225012342310202
Archive entry
20071218225012342310202.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 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#20071218225012342310202.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071218225012342310202.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016