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Pixelated yellow text and a large white 'A' icon on black background with sequential text changes.

Pixelated yellow text and a large white 'A' icon on black background with sequential text changes. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Animation

text changes sequentially
phrases shift from 'Wait...' to '...who's Michigan?'

Animation Summary

Text changes sequentially from 'Wait...' to '...who's Michigan?' across four positions.

Composition

top-left icon
text distributed across four positions

Dense Caption

Black background with a large, pixelated white 'A' icon outlined in light brown at top-left. The 'A' contains a small brown triangle above a dark gray horizontal bar. Four yellow pixelated text phrases appear sequentially: top-right 'Wait...', middle-left 'Wait...', bottom-left '...who's', and bottom-right '...who's Michigan?'. Text changes from 'Wait...' to '...who's Michigan?' across frames. All text uses a retro digital font.

Description

Pixelated yellow text and a large white 'A' icon on black background with sequential text changes.

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
provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

wait who's michigan
pixelated text animation
black background yellow text
michigan text change

Visible Text

Wait...
...who's
...who's Michigan?

Wordwall

black background
white 'A' icon
light brown outline
small brown triangle
dark gray bar
yellow pixelated text
retro digital font
text changes
Wait...
who's Michigan?

Source & archive date

Added to archive: July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title: 200709021022101964769551
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: 2.4 KB
Motion: Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive: July 12, 2026
Relative path: icons/3d/3d9501548765df766fe5785749973ece3c7193cdec78e65f2a9b23982b816893.gif
Media type: image/gif
Scanner metadata: v1
Animation inspected: July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID: 3d9501548765df76
SHA-256: 3d9501548765df766fe5785749973ece3c7193cdec78e65f2a9b23982b816893

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow

Assessed: July 27, 2026 at 10:53 UTC
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated yellow text and a large white 'A' icon on black background with sequential text changes.

Reviewed: August 26, 2026 at 09:09 UTC
Run: 69
Version: v5
Elapsed: 6,259 ms
Tokens: prompt 2,113, response 686

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top-left icon
text distributed across four positions

Dense Caption

Description

Pixelated yellow text and a large white 'A' icon on black background with sequential text changes.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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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
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provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
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pixelated text animation
black background yellow text
michigan text change

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text

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Subjects

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icon

Visible Text

Wait...
...who's
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Wordwall

black background
white 'A' icon
light brown outline
small brown triangle
dark gray bar
yellow pixelated text
retro digital font
text changes
Wait...
who's Michigan?

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror

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Run: 52
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Error: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)

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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: 200709021022101964769551
Archive entry: 200709021022101964769551.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#200709021022101964769551.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709021022101964769551.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

Pixelated yellow text and a large white 'A' icon on black background with sequential text changes.

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