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Pixelated static image with black text on a blue-gray gradient background featuring white cloud-like shapes.

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Pixelated static image with black text on a blue-gray gradient background featuring white cloud-like shapes.

Pixelated static image with black text on a blue-gray gradient background featuring white cloud-like shapes. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • horizontal alignment
  • four-line layout

Dense Caption

Static pixelated digital image displays four lines of black sans-serif text: 'you're so', 'far away, but', 'you feel', 'so close'. Background is light blue to gray gradient with scattered white and light gray pixel clusters resembling clouds. Text appears centered horizontally across the frame. Pixelation creates blocky appearance for all elements.

Description

  • Pixelated static image with black text on a blue-gray gradient background featuring white cloud-like shapes.

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: historical-archive
  • 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
  • 20080210170408365865297

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • text-based buddy icon
  • blue-gray gradient background
  • cloud shapes text
  • pixelated four-line quote

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 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

Visible Text

  • you're so
  • far away, but
  • you feel
  • so close

Wordwall

  • text
  • blue-gray background
  • cloud shapes
  • pixelated
  • four lines
  • centered text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080210170408365865297
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/35/356c9baaee3a25984b4aec8fcddf3726afc3898bf0e6874ac45d55d021f8b987.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC
Archive ID
356c9baaee3a2598
SHA-256
356c9baaee3a25984b4aec8fcddf3726afc3898bf0e6874ac45d55d021f8b987
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:39 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.103837

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated static image with black text on a blue-gray gradient background featuring white cloud-like shapes.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 20:07 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,559 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 662

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • reflective (mood, 0.80)
  • gradient background (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue-gray
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • centered text
  • horizontal alignment
  • four-line layout

Dense Caption

Static pixelated digital image displays four lines of black sans-serif text: 'you're so', 'far away, but', 'you feel', 'so close'. Background is light blue to gray gradient with scattered white and light gray pixel clusters resembling clouds. Text appears centered horizontally across the frame. Pixelation creates blocky appearance for all elements.

Description

  • Pixelated static image with black text on a blue-gray gradient background featuring white cloud-like shapes.

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: historical-archive
  • 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
  • 20080210170408365865297

Mood

  • melancholic
  • reflective

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • text-based buddy icon
  • blue-gray gradient background
  • cloud shapes text
  • pixelated four-line quote

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • gradient background

Visible Text

  • you're so
  • far away, but
  • you feel
  • so close

Wordwall

  • text
  • blue-gray background
  • cloud shapes
  • pixelated
  • four lines
  • centered text
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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
20080210170408365865297
Archive entry
20080210170408365865297.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 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#20080210170408365865297.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080210170408365865297.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016