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Pixelated text on cyan background with blue cursor icon, showing two identical frames side-by-side.

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Pixelated text on cyan background with blue cursor icon, showing two identical frames side-by-side.

Pixelated text on cyan background with blue cursor icon, showing two identical frames side-by-side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Animation Summary

  • Two identical frames side-by-side; left frame contains blue cursor icon overlapping text, right frame shows same text without cursor

Composition

  • text centered vertically
  • two identical frames side-by-side
  • left frame contains cursor icon

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays pink pixelated text reading 'i'll spread my wings and i'll learn how to fly' in four lines. Left frame contains a blue pixelated cursor icon overlapping the word 'spread', while right frame shows no cursor. Both frames have identical text layout with consistent letter spacing, color, and font style. Text uses lowercase letters with apostrophes for contractions. Cursor icon is positioned over the second half of 'spread'.

Description

  • Pixelated text on cyan background with blue cursor icon, showing two identical frames side-by-side.

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
  • 20080522160501252592964

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pink pixelated text cursor icon
  • i'll spread my wings and i'll learn how to fly cyan blue

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; two static frames presented as comparison

Visible Text

  • i'll spread my wings and i'll learn how to fly

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pink pixelated text
  • blue cursor icon
  • lowercase letters
  • apostrophe in i'll
  • four-line layout
  • identical frames side-by-side
  • text reads i'll spread my wings and i'll learn how to fly

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080522160501252592964
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/24/241d7ab73a959df5a730ba78abc10c94b6e7d814296b7d12dd81c884e4789fb5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC
Archive ID
241d7ab73a959df5
SHA-256
241d7ab73a959df5a730ba78abc10c94b6e7d814296b7d12dd81c884e4789fb5
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 18:08 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000507

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:29 UTC
Run
105
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.011940

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:21 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
nsfw
Overall score
0.811890

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text on cyan background with blue cursor icon, showing two identical frames side-by-side.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 18:05 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,097 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 622

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • hopeful (mood, 0.80)
  • optimistic (mood, 0.80)
  • cursor icon (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • Two identical frames side-by-side; left frame contains blue cursor icon overlapping text, right frame shows same text without cursor

Colors

  • cyan
  • pink
  • blue

Composition

  • text centered vertically
  • two identical frames side-by-side
  • left frame contains cursor icon

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays pink pixelated text reading 'i'll spread my wings and i'll learn how to fly' in four lines. Left frame contains a blue pixelated cursor icon overlapping the word 'spread', while right frame shows no cursor. Both frames have identical text layout with consistent letter spacing, color, and font style. Text uses lowercase letters with apostrophes for contractions. Cursor icon is positioned over the second half of 'spread'.

Description

  • Pixelated text on cyan background with blue cursor icon, showing two identical frames side-by-side.

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
  • 20080522160501252592964

Mood

  • optimistic
  • hopeful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pink pixelated text cursor icon
  • i'll spread my wings and i'll learn how to fly cyan blue

Objects

  • cursor icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; two static frames presented as comparison

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • i'll spread my wings and i'll learn how to fly

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pink pixelated text
  • blue cursor icon
  • lowercase letters
  • apostrophe in i'll
  • four-line layout
  • identical frames side-by-side
  • text reads i'll spread my wings and i'll learn how to fly
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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
20080522160501252592964
Archive entry
20080522160501252592964.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 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#20080522160501252592964.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080522160501252592964.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016