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Pixel art icon with black background showing repeated text "was'n't me 0:)" and star symbols in white and gray, with animated star changes.

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Pixel art icon with black background showing repeated text "was'n't me 0:)" and star symbols in white and gray, with animated star changes.

Pixel art icon with black background showing repeated text "was'n't me 0:)" and star symbols in white and gray, with animated star changes. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star symbols alternate between white and gray

Animation Summary

  • Star symbols alternate between white and gray across observations while text remains static.

Composition

  • six identical text arrangements
  • star symbols to left of text
  • repeated pattern

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixel text "was'n't" above "me" above "0:)" repeated in six identical arrangements. Each arrangement has a star symbol to the left: white stars in top-left, top-middle, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-middle, and bottom-right positions. The star symbols alternate between white and gray in a sequence: top-left star is gray, top-middle and top-right stars are white; bottom-left star is white, bottom-middle and bottom-right stars are white. The star symbols change from white to gray and back in a repeating pattern across observations. The text "was'n't me 0:)" remains static in all positions.

Description

  • Pixel art icon with black background showing repeated text "was'n't me 0:)" and star symbols in white and gray, with animated star 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200811261738031810652418
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text content
  • star alternation
  • color scheme

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • wasn't me 0:)
  • star alternation
  • pixel art text
  • black background white text
  • repeated text star
  • 0:) text
  • gray star white star
  • text star arrangement

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate 2007-2016 collection but pixels show no era-specific evidence

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains era and collection hints but pixels do not confirm era or collection

Visible Text

  • was'n't
  • me
  • 0:)

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixel text
  • was'n't me 0:)
  • star symbols
  • white stars
  • gray stars
  • repeated text
  • text arrangement
  • star alternation
  • pixel art

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811261738031810652418
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
587 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/48/482f474105ad4d31614c54129002880dde285bb78bf62c1d265dce2914734df9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
482f474105ad4d31
SHA-256
482f474105ad4d31614c54129002880dde285bb78bf62c1d265dce2914734df9
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:58 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083492

OpenAI category scores

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Pixel art icon with black background showing repeated text "was'n't me 0:)" and star symbols in white and gray, with animated star changes.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 10:49 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,189 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,168, response 819

Review tags

  • star alternation (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • defensive (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • star symbols alternate between white and gray (other, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • star symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • star alternation

Animation

  • star symbols alternate between white and gray

Animation Summary

  • Star symbols alternate between white and gray across observations while text remains static.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • six identical text arrangements
  • star symbols to left of text
  • repeated pattern

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixel text "was'n't" above "me" above "0:)" repeated in six identical arrangements. Each arrangement has a star symbol to the left: white stars in top-left, top-middle, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-middle, and bottom-right positions. The star symbols alternate between white and gray in a sequence: top-left star is gray, top-middle and top-right stars are white; bottom-left star is white, bottom-middle and bottom-right stars are white. The star symbols change from white to gray and back in a repeating pattern across observations. The text "was'n't me 0:)" remains static in all positions.

Description

  • Pixel art icon with black background showing repeated text "was'n't me 0:)" and star symbols in white and gray, with animated star 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200811261738031810652418
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text content
  • star alternation
  • color scheme

Mood

  • playful
  • defensive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • wasn't me 0:)
  • star alternation
  • pixel art text
  • black background white text
  • repeated text star
  • 0:) text
  • gray star white star
  • text star arrangement

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate 2007-2016 collection but pixels show no era-specific evidence

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains era and collection hints but pixels do not confirm era or collection

Style

  • pixel art
  • monochrome

Subjects

  • text
  • star symbols

Visible Text

  • was'n't
  • me
  • 0:)

Wordwall

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  • white pixel text
  • was'n't me 0:)
  • star symbols
  • white stars
  • gray stars
  • repeated text
  • text arrangement
  • star alternation
  • pixel art
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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
200811261738031810652418
Archive entry
200811261738031810652418.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#200811261738031810652418.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811261738031810652418.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016