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Black background with white pixelated text 'And I fake a smile.' and red pixel art symbols in four quadrants.

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Black background with white pixelated text 'And I fake a smile.' and red pixel art symbols in four quadrants.

Black background with white pixelated text 'And I fake a smile.' and red pixel art symbols in four quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • top-left: solid red heart
  • top-right: red dots radiate outward
  • bottom-left: red dots form vertical line

Animation Summary

Text remains static while red symbols animate: heart stays solid, dots radiate outward in top-right , and dots form vertical line in bottom-left

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • symmetrical text layout
  • central symbol placement

Dense Caption

Four identical panels of white pixelated text reading 'And I fake a smile.' on black background. Top-left panel has solid red heart symbol above text; top-right panel shows red dot cluster with radiating lines above text; bottom-left panel displays red dot cluster forming vertical line shape above text; bottom-right panel is plain text without symbols.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text 'And I fake a smile.' and red pixel art symbols in four quadrants.

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
  • 20071215093439230982384

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 'And I fake a smile.' pixel art
  • red heart text animation
  • red dot cluster animation
  • four quadrant text icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Text remains static while red symbols animate: heart stays solid, dots radiate outward in top-right panel, and dots form vertical line in bottom-left panel.
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Visible Text

  • And I fake a smile.

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • 'And I fake a smile.'
  • black background
  • red heart symbol
  • red dot cluster
  • radiating dots
  • vertical dot line

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071215093439230982384
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
914 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/1c/1c6249b04ec465326092590928b5cdbfb757e61322a5d99aaf792c16a6b269b5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 UTC
Archive ID
1c6249b04ec46532
SHA-256
1c6249b04ec465326092590928b5cdbfb757e61322a5d99aaf792c16a6b269b5
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:13 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.099922

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with white pixelated text 'And I fake a smile.' and red pixel art symbols in four quadrants.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 02:06 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,873 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 686

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • minimalist (mood, 0.80)
  • bottom left red dots form vertical line (other, 0.80)
  • top left solid red heart (other, 0.80)
  • top right red dots radiate outward (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • top-left: solid red heart
  • top-right: red dots radiate outward
  • bottom-left: red dots form vertical line

Animation Summary

Text remains static while red symbols animate: heart stays solid, dots radiate outward in top-right , and dots form vertical line in bottom-left

Colors

  • white
  • black
  • red

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • symmetrical text layout
  • central symbol placement

Dense Caption

Four identical panels of white pixelated text reading 'And I fake a smile.' on black background. Top-left panel has solid red heart symbol above text; top-right panel shows red dot cluster with radiating lines above text; bottom-left panel displays red dot cluster forming vertical line shape above text; bottom-right panel is plain text without symbols.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text 'And I fake a smile.' and red pixel art symbols in four quadrants.

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
  • 20071215093439230982384

Mood

  • melancholic
  • minimalist

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 'And I fake a smile.' pixel art
  • red heart text animation
  • red dot cluster animation
  • four quadrant text icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Text remains static while red symbols animate: heart stays solid, dots radiate outward in top-right panel, and dots form vertical line in bottom-left panel.
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • And I fake a smile.

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • 'And I fake a smile.'
  • black background
  • red heart symbol
  • red dot cluster
  • radiating dots
  • vertical dot line
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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
20071215093439230982384
Archive entry
20071215093439230982384.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 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#20071215093439230982384.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071215093439230982384.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016