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Blue background with repeated text "when its real tough just cry!!!" and changing symbols between

Blue background with repeated text "when its real tough just cry!!!" and changing symbols between. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • symbols change between : plus sign → asterisk → X in top , plus sign → dot → dots in bottom

Animation Summary

  • The symbols between change: top has plus sign, asterisk, X; bottom has plus sign, single dot, two dots

Composition

  • three horizontal of text with symbols between

Dense Caption

The image shows a blue background with three horizontal rows of identical black pixelated text reading "when its real tough just cry!!!". Between the top and middle row, there is a small blue plus sign on the left, a small blue asterisk in the center, and a small blue X on the right; between the middle and bottom row, these symbols change to a small blue plus sign on the left, a single small blue dot in the center, and two small blue dots on the right. The text remains static across all rows.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated text "when its real tough just cry!!!" and changing symbols between

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
  • 200905011100411536574299

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background text cry
  • when its real tough just cry
  • pixelated text blue symbols
  • three text symbols

Objects

  • plus sign
  • X

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with repeated text "when its real tough just cry!!!" and changing symbols between rows.
  • quarantined animationSummary: The symbols between rows change: top row has plus sign, asterisk, X; bottom row has plus sign, single dot, two dots.
  • quarantined wordwall: three horizontal rows of text
  • quarantined composition: three horizontal rows of text with symbols between rows
  • quarantined animation: symbols change between rows: plus sign → asterisk → X in top row, plus sign → dot → dots in bottom row
  • quarantined retrieval: three rows text symbols

Visible Text

  • when its real tough just cry!!!

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • black pixelated text
  • "when its real tough just cry!!!"
  • three horizontal of text
  • small blue plus sign
  • small blue asterisk
  • small blue X
  • single small blue dot
  • two small blue dots

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200905011100411536574299
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3e/3eca9382a70824c0c4b9567c5afcefd3b2218586ea78719a20ec92bbeba31e28.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
3eca9382a70824c0
SHA-256
3eca9382a70824c0c4b9567c5afcefd3b2218586ea78719a20ec92bbeba31e28
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:49 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.128966

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with repeated text "when its real tough just cry!!!" and changing symbols between

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 08:26 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,364 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 781

Review tags

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  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • sarcastic (mood, 0.80)
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Animation

  • symbols change between : plus sign → asterisk → X in top , plus sign → dot → dots in bottom

Animation Summary

  • The symbols between change: top has plus sign, asterisk, X; bottom has plus sign, single dot, two dots

Colors

  • blue
  • black

Composition

  • three horizontal of text with symbols between

Dense Caption

The image shows a blue background with three horizontal rows of identical black pixelated text reading "when its real tough just cry!!!". Between the top and middle row, there is a small blue plus sign on the left, a small blue asterisk in the center, and a small blue X on the right; between the middle and bottom row, these symbols change to a small blue plus sign on the left, a single small blue dot in the center, and two small blue dots on the right. The text remains static across all rows.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated text "when its real tough just cry!!!" and changing symbols between

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
  • 200905011100411536574299

Mood

  • humorous
  • sarcastic

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  • when its real tough just cry
  • pixelated text blue symbols
  • three text symbols

Objects

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  • asterisk
  • X
  • dots

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined animation: symbols change between rows: plus sign → asterisk → X in top row, plus sign → dot → dots in bottom row
  • quarantined retrieval: three rows text symbols

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • when its real tough just cry!!!

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • black pixelated text
  • "when its real tough just cry!!!"
  • three horizontal of text
  • small blue plus sign
  • small blue asterisk
  • small blue X
  • single small blue dot
  • two small blue dots
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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
200905011100411536574299
Archive entry
200905011100411536574299.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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

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