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Pixelated text in pink on dark blue background with white rectangular overlays shifting

Pixelated text in pink on dark blue background with white rectangular overlays shifting. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, L…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • overlays shift horizontally

Animation Summary

  • White rectangles shift horizontally across the text, covering different segments in each frame.

Composition

  • vertical text stack
  • horizontal overlay movement

Dense Caption

Dark blue background features vertically stacked pixelated pink text: 'I', 'need', 'u', 'like', 'wow<3'. White rectangles shift horizontally across the image, covering different segments of the text. In one frame, a rectangle covers 'u' in the second row; another covers 'like' in the fourth row; and a third covers 'wow<3' in the fifth row. The text remains consistent across all frames.

Description

  • Pixelated text in pink on dark blue background with white rectangular overlays shifting

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
  • 200812241604201879376324

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink pixelated text dark blue background
  • white overlays shift horizontal
  • I need u like wow<3

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated text in pink on dark blue background with white rectangular overlays shifting across rows.
  • quarantined animation: overlays shift horizontally across rows

Visible Text

  • I
  • need
  • u
  • like
  • wow<3

Wordwall

  • pink pixelated text
  • dark blue background
  • white rectangular overlays
  • text: I need u like wow<3
  • overlays shift horizontally

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812241604201879376324
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2b/2b05073061f22aca97ae56d5480b7d8f5c69cfaf03e6e4b4cdca44534bd2e651.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
2b05073061f22aca
SHA-256
2b05073061f22aca97ae56d5480b7d8f5c69cfaf03e6e4b4cdca44534bd2e651
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 4, 2026 at 04:49 UTC
Run
1262
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.002786

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:28 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.297966

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text in pink on dark blue background with white rectangular overlays shifting

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 15:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,650 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,167, response 625

Review tags

  • overlays shift horizontally (action, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • white rectangles (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static background with moving overlays (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • overlays shift horizontally

Animation

  • overlays shift horizontally

Animation Summary

  • White rectangles shift horizontally across the text, covering different segments in each frame.

Colors

  • dark blue
  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • vertical text stack
  • horizontal overlay movement

Dense Caption

Dark blue background features vertically stacked pixelated pink text: 'I', 'need', 'u', 'like', 'wow<3'. White rectangles shift horizontally across the image, covering different segments of the text. In one frame, a rectangle covers 'u' in the second row; another covers 'like' in the fourth row; and a third covers 'wow<3' in the fifth row. The text remains consistent across all frames.

Description

  • Pixelated text in pink on dark blue background with white rectangular overlays shifting

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
  • 200812241604201879376324

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink pixelated text dark blue background
  • white overlays shift horizontal
  • I need u like wow<3

Objects

  • white rectangles

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated text in pink on dark blue background with white rectangular overlays shifting across rows.
  • quarantined animation: overlays shift horizontally across rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static background with moving overlays

Visible Text

  • I
  • need
  • u
  • like
  • wow<3

Wordwall

  • pink pixelated text
  • dark blue background
  • white rectangular overlays
  • text: I need u like wow<3
  • overlays shift horizontally
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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
200812241604201879376324
Archive entry
200812241604201879376324.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#200812241604201879376324.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812241604201879376324.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016