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Black background with white stars and purple text repeating 'When I was a kid, PLUTO was a planet' in pixelated font.

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Black background with white stars and purple text repeating 'When I was a kid, PLUTO was a planet' in pixelated font.

Black background with white stars and purple text repeating 'When I was a kid, PLUTO was a planet' in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no visible changes

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible animation changes.

Composition

  • vertical
  • scattered stars
  • text overlay

Dense Caption

Black background with white stars. Purple pixelated text reads 'When I was a kid, PLUTO was a planet' repeated multiple times. Text is arranged in vertical columns. Stars are scattered across the background. The text and stars do not change position or appearance across observations. The image is static with no visible animation.

Description

  • Black background with white stars and purple text repeating 'When I was a kid, PLUTO was a planet' in pixelated font.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pluto was a planet
  • when i was a kid pluto
  • purple text black background
  • repeated text stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: vertical columns

Visible Text

  • When I was a kid, PLUTO was a planet

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white stars
  • purple text
  • pixelated font
  • PLUTO was a planet
  • When I was a kid
  • repeated text
  • vertical
  • scattered stars

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810021105561358623984
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/40/40215a371781d54d72ae5ab2c5a22943953395ddd24c4c2e5208d63386f4134f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
40215a371781d54d
SHA-256
40215a371781d54d72ae5ab2c5a22943953395ddd24c4c2e5208d63386f4134f
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 02:46 UTC
Run
1309
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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Assessed
July 27, 2026 at 16:37 UTC
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1196
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July 23, 2026 at 07:50 UTC
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Black background with white stars and purple text repeating 'When I was a kid, PLUTO was a planet' in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:37 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,700 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 581

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible changes (other, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no visible changes

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible animation changes.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • purple

Composition

  • vertical
  • scattered stars
  • text overlay

Dense Caption

Black background with white stars. Purple pixelated text reads 'When I was a kid, PLUTO was a planet' repeated multiple times. Text is arranged in vertical columns. Stars are scattered across the background. The text and stars do not change position or appearance across observations. The image is static with no visible animation.

Description

  • Black background with white stars and purple text repeating 'When I was a kid, PLUTO was a planet' in pixelated font.

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

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • repetitive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pluto was a planet
  • when i was a kid pluto
  • purple text black background
  • repeated text stars

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: vertical columns
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Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • repetitive

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • When I was a kid, PLUTO was a planet

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white stars
  • purple text
  • pixelated font
  • PLUTO was a planet
  • When I was a kid
  • repeated text
  • vertical
  • scattered stars
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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
200810021105561358623984
Archive entry
200810021105561358623984.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#200810021105561358623984.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810021105561358623984.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016