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Green and red pixelated text on black background split into white and gray lower sections.

Green and red pixelated text on black background split into white and gray lower sections. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical text on left
  • vertical text on right
  • horizontal split below

Dense Caption

The image displays a static composition with green pixelated text reading "If you gonna play the game" arranged vertically on the left side of a black background. On the right side, red pixelated text reads "you gotta love the pain." The bottom half is divided into two equal horizontal sections: white on the left and gray on the right. All text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital interfaces.

Description

  • Green and red pixelated text on black background split into white and gray lower sections.

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 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
  • 200809231952171961697944

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green red pixelated text
  • black white gray background
  • vertical game pain quote
  • low-resolution motivational text

Visible Text

  • If you gonna play the game
  • you gotta love the pain

Wordwall

  • green pixelated text
  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • white lower section
  • gray lower section
  • vertical text layout
  • blocky font style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809231952171961697944
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
3e9dc968c5548ddf
SHA-256
3e9dc968c5548ddf98126717c2f4dc48d09d58c76d433b2a3d5bb04b61790c61
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:45 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.131211

OpenAI category scores

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Green and red pixelated text on black background split into white and gray lower sections.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 01:25 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,240 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 641

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • assertive (mood, 0.80)
  • motivational (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • red
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • vertical text on left
  • vertical text on right
  • horizontal split below

Dense Caption

The image displays a static composition with green pixelated text reading "If you gonna play the game" arranged vertically on the left side of a black background. On the right side, red pixelated text reads "you gotta love the pain." The bottom half is divided into two equal horizontal sections: white on the left and gray on the right. All text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital interfaces.

Description

  • Green and red pixelated text on black background split into white and gray lower sections.

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 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
  • 200809231952171961697944

Mood

  • assertive
  • motivational

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green red pixelated text
  • black white gray background
  • vertical game pain quote
  • low-resolution motivational text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • If you gonna play the game
  • you gotta love the pain

Wordwall

  • green pixelated text
  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • white lower section
  • gray lower section
  • vertical text layout
  • blocky font style
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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
200809231952171961697944
Archive entry
200809231952171961697944.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#200809231952171961697944.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809231952171961697944.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016