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Purple text repeats 'i comb the crowd and pick you out...' over red pixelated shapes on black background.

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Purple text repeats 'i comb the crowd and pick you out...' over red pixelated shapes on black background.

Purple text repeats 'i comb the crowd and pick you out...' over red pixelated shapes on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Share…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text centered horizontally
  • text top-aligned
  • red shapes bottom-aligned

Dense Caption

Black background with purple pixelated text repeating 'i comb the crowd and pick you out...' in three lines. Below the text, red pixelated shapes resembling flames or abstract forms fill the lower portion. The text is rendered in a retro 8-bit style with sharp edges and uniform letter spacing. The red shapes have varying heights and widths, creating a textured pattern. The image has no visible motion or animation.

Description

  • Purple text repeats 'i comb the crowd and pick you out...' over red pixelated shapes on black background.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple text black background red shapes
  • i comb the crowd and pick you out
  • 8-bit style repeating text
  • flame-like pixelated shapes
  • retro text animation
  • repetitive text 8-bit
  • purple red black pixel art
  • text centered flame shapes

Visible Text

  • i comb the crowd and pick you out...

Wordwall

  • purple text
  • black background
  • red pixelated shapes
  • repeating text
  • 8-bit style
  • three lines of text
  • flame-like forms
  • uniform letter spacing
  • textured pattern
  • no animation

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070819131907705209015
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
758 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/41/41d4317db0626842141f67effbe64cfba5fc55983563f4b08be76f969a0c246a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
41d4317db0626842
SHA-256
41d4317db0626842141f67effbe64cfba5fc55983563f4b08be76f969a0c246a
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 02:16 UTC
Run
1343
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000583

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 27, 2026 at 13:05 UTC
Run
1196
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:52 UTC
Run
107
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nsfw
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Purple text repeats 'i comb the crowd and pick you out...' over red pixelated shapes on black background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 02:11 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,651 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 687

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • mysterious (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • repetitive (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • black
  • red

Composition

  • text centered horizontally
  • text top-aligned
  • red shapes bottom-aligned

Dense Caption

Black background with purple pixelated text repeating 'i comb the crowd and pick you out...' in three lines. Below the text, red pixelated shapes resembling flames or abstract forms fill the lower portion. The text is rendered in a retro 8-bit style with sharp edges and uniform letter spacing. The red shapes have varying heights and widths, creating a textured pattern. The image has no visible motion or animation.

Description

  • Purple text repeats 'i comb the crowd and pick you out...' over red pixelated shapes on black background.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • mysterious
  • repetitive
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple text black background red shapes
  • i comb the crowd and pick you out
  • 8-bit style repeating text
  • flame-like pixelated shapes
  • retro text animation
  • repetitive text 8-bit
  • purple red black pixel art
  • text centered flame shapes

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • retro

Visible Text

  • i comb the crowd and pick you out...

Wordwall

  • purple text
  • black background
  • red pixelated shapes
  • repeating text
  • 8-bit style
  • three lines of text
  • flame-like forms
  • uniform letter spacing
  • textured pattern
  • no animation
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:12 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20070819131907705209015
Archive entry
20070819131907705209015.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#20070819131907705209015.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070819131907705209015.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016