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Pixelated cyan text on black background with a white cursor blinking over the 'o' in "Could".

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Pixelated cyan text on black background with a white cursor blinking over the 'o' in "Could".

Pixelated cyan text on black background with a white cursor blinking over the 'o' in "Could". Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • cursor blinks on the letter 'o' of "Could"

Animation Summary

  • A white cursor blinks over the 'o' in "Could" on a black background with cyan pixelated text.

Composition

  • centered text blocks
  • two identical text sections side-by-side
  • cursor positioned over 'o' in top-left line

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated cyan text reading "If I Could If I Could I know I I know I Would Lay Would Lay Forever.. Forever.. In his ArmsIn his Arms". A white, blocky cursor blinks over the letter 'o' in the word "Could" on the top-left line of text.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on black background with a white cursor blinking over the 'o' in "Could".

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070914112027597085346

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pixelated text
  • black background
  • white blinking cursor
  • text repeats twice

Visible Text

  • If I Could
  • I know I
  • Would Lay
  • Forever..
  • In his Arms

Wordwall

  • cyan pixelated text
  • black background
  • white blinking cursor
  • text reads If I Could
  • text repeats twice
  • text includes I know I
  • text includes Would Lay
  • text includes Forever..
  • text includes In his Arms

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070914112027597085346
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
344 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3a/3a7529bf4582cef1c02540dce97d754f42f24b9e734c62a103bd5ed562182644.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 UTC
Archive ID
3a7529bf4582cef1
SHA-256
3a7529bf4582cef1c02540dce97d754f42f24b9e734c62a103bd5ed562182644
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:44 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075069

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cyan text on black background with a white cursor blinking over the 'o' in "Could".

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 01:55 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,111 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 682

Review tags

  • cursor blinks over o in could (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • white cursor (object, 0.80)
  • cursor blinks on the letter o of could (other, 0.80)
  • monospaced (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • cursor blinks over 'o' in "Could"

Animation

  • cursor blinks on the letter 'o' of "Could"

Animation Summary

  • A white cursor blinks over the 'o' in "Could" on a black background with cyan pixelated text.

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered text blocks
  • two identical text sections side-by-side
  • cursor positioned over 'o' in top-left line

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated cyan text reading "If I Could If I Could I know I I know I Would Lay Would Lay Forever.. Forever.. In his ArmsIn his Arms". A white, blocky cursor blinks over the letter 'o' in the word "Could" on the top-left line of text.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on black background with a white cursor blinking over the 'o' in "Could".

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070914112027597085346

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pixelated text
  • black background
  • white blinking cursor
  • text repeats twice

Objects

  • white cursor

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • monospaced

Visible Text

  • If I Could
  • I know I
  • Would Lay
  • Forever..
  • In his Arms

Wordwall

  • cyan pixelated text
  • black background
  • white blinking cursor
  • text reads If I Could
  • text repeats twice
  • text includes I know I
  • text includes Would Lay
  • text includes Forever..
  • text includes In his Arms
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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
20070914112027597085346
Archive entry
20070914112027597085346.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 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#20070914112027597085346.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070914112027597085346.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016