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A static image with a bright pink background displaying repeated blue text and small white stars.

A static image with a bright pink background displaying repeated blue text and small white stars. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three horizontal of repeating text
  • stars scattered throughout background
  • solid gray block in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

Bright pink background; repeating blue pixelated text "i could write could write could write better thc better thc better thc ever felt i ever felt i ever felt" in three horizontal rows, each row containing the phrase four times with a single white star between each repetition of "could write" and "better thc"; small pink stars scattered throughout the background; bottom-right corner has a solid gray rectangular block covering part of the text.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background displaying repeated blue text and small white stars.

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
  • 200805141823111259802154

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background blue text white stars gray rectangle
  • repeating text i could write better thc ever felt
  • pixelated text pink background
  • gray block bottom right corner

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three horizontal rows of repeating text

Visible Text

  • i could write could write could write better thc better thc better thc ever felt i ever felt i ever felt

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • repeating blue pixelated text
  • white stars
  • gray rectangle in bottom right

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805141823111259802154
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
970 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/25/25d3d2a69d967a0a234a41bb6d881ecbfb9a7a55f4000c971ae351c14cfc9c05.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC
Archive ID
25d3d2a69d967a0a
SHA-256
25d3d2a69d967a0a234a41bb6d881ecbfb9a7a55f4000c971ae351c14cfc9c05
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:23 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.098696

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A static image with a bright pink background displaying repeated blue text and small white stars.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,429 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,126, response 656

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution graphics (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • pink
  • blue
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • three horizontal of repeating text
  • stars scattered throughout background
  • solid gray block in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

Bright pink background; repeating blue pixelated text "i could write could write could write better thc better thc better thc ever felt i ever felt i ever felt" in three horizontal rows, each row containing the phrase four times with a single white star between each repetition of "could write" and "better thc"; small pink stars scattered throughout the background; bottom-right corner has a solid gray rectangular block covering part of the text.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background displaying repeated blue text and small white stars.

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
  • 200805141823111259802154

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background blue text white stars gray rectangle
  • repeating text i could write better thc ever felt
  • pixelated text pink background
  • gray block bottom right corner

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three horizontal rows of repeating text

Style

  • pixelated
  • repetitive text layout
  • low-resolution graphics

Visible Text

  • i could write could write could write better thc better thc better thc ever felt i ever felt i ever felt

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • repeating blue pixelated text
  • white stars
  • gray rectangle in bottom right
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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
200805141823111259802154
Archive entry
200805141823111259802154.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 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#200805141823111259802154.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805141823111259802154.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016