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A static image with a bright cyan background, white star shapes scattered across it, and black text reading "sorry boys im TAKEN MATT" in multiple

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A static image with a bright cyan background, white star shapes scattered across it, and black text reading "sorry boys im TAKEN MATT" in multiple

A static image with a bright cyan background, white star shapes scattered across it, and black text reading "sorry boys im TAKEN MATT" in multiple. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ic…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four identical vertical of text
  • star shapes scattered across background

Dense Caption

Bright cyan background filled with small white five-pointed stars. Black pixelated text arranged in four vertical columns: top-left column reads "sorry boys im TAKEN MATT", top-right column identical to top-left, bottom-left column identical to top-left, bottom-right column identical to top-left. Text uses mixed case ("TAKEN" and "MATT" uppercase), with all other words lowercase. No visible animation or motion changes across observations.

Description

A static image with a bright cyan background, white star shapes scattered across it, and black text reading "sorry boys im TAKEN MATT" in multiple

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 20070916084823455818826

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background white stars sorry boys im TAKEN MATT
  • TAKEN MATT cyan background white stars
  • sorry boys im TAKEN MATT text
  • white stars cyan background black text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static image with a bright cyan background, white star shapes scattered across it, and black text reading "sorry boys im TAKEN MATT" in multiple rows.
  • quarantined composition: four identical vertical columns of text

Visible Text

  • sorry boys im TAKEN MATT

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • white stars
  • black text
  • TAKEN MATT
  • sorry boys im

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070916084823455818826
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/35/35c41908a499226bf7d4d4241832fa8929a004c47a96e8ef5f4d281d30ebf853.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
Archive ID
35c41908a499226b
SHA-256
35c41908a499226bf7d4d4241832fa8929a004c47a96e8ef5f4d281d30ebf853
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
0.131760

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A static image with a bright cyan background, white star shapes scattered across it, and black text reading "sorry boys im TAKEN MATT" in multiple

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 02:35 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,660 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 661

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated text (style, 0.80)
  • static image (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • four identical vertical of text
  • star shapes scattered across background

Dense Caption

Bright cyan background filled with small white five-pointed stars. Black pixelated text arranged in four vertical columns: top-left column reads "sorry boys im TAKEN MATT", top-right column identical to top-left, bottom-left column identical to top-left, bottom-right column identical to top-left. Text uses mixed case ("TAKEN" and "MATT" uppercase), with all other words lowercase. No visible animation or motion changes across observations.

Description

A static image with a bright cyan background, white star shapes scattered across it, and black text reading "sorry boys im TAKEN MATT" in multiple

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 20070916084823455818826

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background white stars sorry boys im TAKEN MATT
  • TAKEN MATT cyan background white stars
  • sorry boys im TAKEN MATT text
  • white stars cyan background black text

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined composition: four identical vertical columns of text

Style

  • pixelated text
  • static image

Visible Text

  • sorry boys im TAKEN MATT

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • white stars
  • black text
  • TAKEN MATT
  • sorry boys im
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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
20070916084823455818826
Archive entry
20070916084823455818826.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 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#20070916084823455818826.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070916084823455818826.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016