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Pixelated text on black background with yellow star-like symbols replacing letters in the word 'the' across multiple lines.

Pixelated text on black background with yellow star-like symbols replacing letters in the word 'the' across multiple lines. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • text arranged in five horizontal lines
  • symbols replacing letters in 'the'
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text reading 'i dnt regrei dnt regre things i've things i've gret the thgret the th dnt do whednt do whe the chance the chance' across five lines; yellow star-like symbols replace the 't' and 'h' in 'the' on the bottom line, with one symbol replacing 't' and two symbols replacing 'h' in the first 'the', and one symbol replacing 't' and two symbols replacing 'h' in the second 'the'.

Description

  • Pixelated text on black background with yellow star-like symbols replacing letters in the word 'the' across multiple lines.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081011180842391693468

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text with yellow star symbols
  • text contains 'dnt' and 'regrei'
  • text contains 'i've' and 'whednt'
  • text contains 'gret' and 'thgret'
  • text contains 'chance'
  • black background white text yellow symbols
  • repeated 'the' with symbol substitutions
  • humorous text-based icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • text contains multiple misspellings and intentional symbol substitutions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but no pixel-confirmed identity clues

Visible Text

  • i dnt regrei dnt regre
  • things i've things i've
  • gret the thgret the th
  • dnt do whednt do whe
  • the chance the chance

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • yellow star symbols
  • repeated 'the' with symbols
  • text contains 'dnt' and 'regrei'
  • text contains 'i've'
  • text contains 'whednt'
  • text contains 'gret'
  • text contains 'thgret'
  • text contains 'chance'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081011180842391693468
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
388 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2f/2f407226b71a71f44ca4b99dbce4269133578c77ffb43af7dda750a8147befe9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
2f407226b71a71f4
SHA-256
2f407226b71a71f44ca4b99dbce4269133578c77ffb43af7dda750a8147befe9
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:33 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080523

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.920195onnx/unsafe0.080523onnx/nsfw0.042189onnx/nsfl0.038335
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text on black background with yellow star-like symbols replacing letters in the word 'the' across multiple lines.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 03:47 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,318 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 850

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible motion (other, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • star symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • yellow

Composition

  • text arranged in five horizontal lines
  • symbols replacing letters in 'the'
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text reading 'i dnt regrei dnt regre things i've things i've gret the thgret the th dnt do whednt do whe the chance the chance' across five lines; yellow star-like symbols replace the 't' and 'h' in 'the' on the bottom line, with one symbol replacing 't' and two symbols replacing 'h' in the first 'the', and one symbol replacing 't' and two symbols replacing 'h' in the second 'the'.

Description

  • Pixelated text on black background with yellow star-like symbols replacing letters in the word 'the' across multiple lines.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081011180842391693468

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text with yellow star symbols
  • text contains 'dnt' and 'regrei'
  • text contains 'i've' and 'whednt'
  • text contains 'gret' and 'thgret'
  • text contains 'chance'
  • black background white text yellow symbols
  • repeated 'the' with symbol substitutions
  • humorous text-based icon

Objects

  • star symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • text contains multiple misspellings and intentional symbol substitutions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but no pixel-confirmed identity clues

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text
  • star symbols

Visible Text

  • i dnt regrei dnt regre
  • things i've things i've
  • gret the thgret the th
  • dnt do whednt do whe
  • the chance the chance

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • yellow star symbols
  • repeated 'the' with symbols
  • text contains 'dnt' and 'regrei'
  • text contains 'i've'
  • text contains 'whednt'
  • text contains 'gret'
  • text contains 'thgret'
  • text contains 'chance'
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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
20081011180842391693468
Archive entry
20081011180842391693468.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#20081011180842391693468.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081011180842391693468.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016