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Pixelated orange text on black background with white cursor overlay, showing repeated 'love Shelby' and 'MU' text elements.

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Pixelated orange text on black background with white cursor overlay, showing repeated 'love Shelby' and 'MU' text elements.

Pixelated orange text on black background with white cursor overlay, showing repeated 'love Shelby' and 'MU' text elements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top text
  • middle horizontal lines
  • bottom text

Dense Caption

Black background with orange pixelated text. Top row: 'love Shelby: love Shelb' with white cursor overlay at 'Shelb' position. Middle rows: three horizontal lines of orange 'o' characters. Bottom row: 'MU' text on left and right, with orange 'o' characters between them. All text uses 8-bit pixel art style. Cursor is white, pixelated, and positioned over the 'b' in 'Shelb'.

Description

  • Pixelated orange text on black background with white cursor overlay, showing repeated 'love Shelby' and 'MU' text elements.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • love shelby pixel art
  • mu text orange
  • cursor over b
  • 8-bit text
  • shelby mu
  • orange o characters
  • retro text
  • black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: top row text

Visible Text

  • love Shelby: love Shelb
  • MU
  • o

Wordwall

  • orange pixelated text
  • black background
  • white cursor overlay
  • love Shelby
  • MU
  • o characters
  • 8-bit style
  • repeated text
  • cursor over b
  • horizontal lines

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070728161026890722367
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
297 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/48/48ecaf06d16ffff74dc43678acceb64e5de472e26aaa364b7b3a52c7652dcbb8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC
Archive ID
48ecaf06d16ffff7
SHA-256
48ecaf06d16ffff74dc43678acceb64e5de472e26aaa364b7b3a52c7652dcbb8
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:41 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082894

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated orange text on black background with white cursor overlay, showing repeated 'love Shelby' and 'MU' text elements.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,466 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,137, response 680

Review tags

  • cursor overlay (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • retro (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • cursor (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • cursor overlay

Colors

  • black
  • orange
  • white

Composition

  • top text
  • middle horizontal lines
  • bottom text

Dense Caption

Black background with orange pixelated text. Top row: 'love Shelby: love Shelb' with white cursor overlay at 'Shelb' position. Middle rows: three horizontal lines of orange 'o' characters. Bottom row: 'MU' text on left and right, with orange 'o' characters between them. All text uses 8-bit pixel art style. Cursor is white, pixelated, and positioned over the 'b' in 'Shelb'.

Description

  • Pixelated orange text on black background with white cursor overlay, showing repeated 'love Shelby' and 'MU' text elements.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • retro

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • love shelby pixel art
  • mu text orange
  • cursor over b
  • 8-bit text
  • shelby mu
  • orange o characters
  • retro text
  • black background

Objects

  • text
  • cursor

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: top row text

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text
  • cursor

Visible Text

  • love Shelby: love Shelb
  • MU
  • o

Wordwall

  • orange pixelated text
  • black background
  • white cursor overlay
  • love Shelby
  • MU
  • o characters
  • 8-bit style
  • repeated text
  • cursor over b
  • horizontal lines
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:36 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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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070728161026890722367
Archive entry
20070728161026890722367.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 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#20070728161026890722367.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070728161026890722367.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016