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A static image with orange background displaying repeated text and changing symbols.

A static image with orange background displaying repeated text and changing symbols. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three
  • text and symbols
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right

Dense Caption

The image has a solid orange background. It contains repeated text "ughh </3 here we go again" in orange pixelated font. Three rows of text are visible. The top row has three heart symbols (two white, one white outline). The middle row has two white hearts and one white downward arrow. The bottom row has one white downward arrow and one white dot. The bottom-right corner shows a gray rectangle. The text and symbols are arranged in a grid-like pattern.

Description

  • A static image with orange background displaying repeated text and changing symbols.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • repeated text ughh here we go again
  • orange background white symbols
  • text with heart arrow dot
  • gray rectangle bottom right
  • pixelated text buddy icon
  • three text symbols
  • white heart white arrow white dot
  • repetitive ughh here we go again

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: three rows
  • quarantined retrieval: three rows text symbols
  • quarantined retrieval: text grid with heart arrow dot

Visible Text

  • ughh </3 here we go again

Wordwall

  • orange background
  • repeated text
  • ughh </3 here we go again
  • white heart symbols
  • white downward arrow
  • white dot
  • gray rectangle
  • pattern
  • pixelated font
  • three

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709021005381621928156
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
371 bytes
Motion
Animated (7 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/37/37a6295f6dc94a7c0e6056ed52a81838042a4a9987dcafff37aecd742751669f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
37a6295f6dc94a7c
SHA-256
37a6295f6dc94a7c0e6056ed52a81838042a4a9987dcafff37aecd742751669f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081078

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static image with orange background displaying repeated text and changing symbols.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 09:08 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,898 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 657

Review tags

  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • repetitive (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • orange
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • three
  • text and symbols
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right

Dense Caption

The image has a solid orange background. It contains repeated text "ughh </3 here we go again" in orange pixelated font. Three rows of text are visible. The top row has three heart symbols (two white, one white outline). The middle row has two white hearts and one white downward arrow. The bottom row has one white downward arrow and one white dot. The bottom-right corner shows a gray rectangle. The text and symbols are arranged in a grid-like pattern.

Description

  • A static image with orange background displaying repeated text and changing symbols.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • repetitive
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • repeated text ughh here we go again
  • orange background white symbols
  • text with heart arrow dot
  • gray rectangle bottom right
  • pixelated text buddy icon
  • three text symbols
  • white heart white arrow white dot
  • repetitive ughh here we go again

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: three rows
  • quarantined retrieval: three rows text symbols
  • quarantined retrieval: text grid with heart arrow dot

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • ughh </3 here we go again

Wordwall

  • orange background
  • repeated text
  • ughh </3 here we go again
  • white heart symbols
  • white downward arrow
  • white dot
  • gray rectangle
  • pattern
  • pixelated font
  • three
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:57 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200709021005381621928156
Archive entry
200709021005381621928156.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#200709021005381621928156.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709021005381621928156.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016