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Pixelated cyan text on black background with purple accent, displaying repeated lyrics and a single frame of animation.

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Pixelated cyan text on black background with purple accent, displaying repeated lyrics and a single frame of animation.

Pixelated cyan text on black background with purple accent, displaying repeated lyrics and a single frame of animation. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fra…

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Color

Source terms

Animation

  • left has purple accent on 's' in 'newsflash'
  • right lacks this accent

Animation Summary

  • The left displays 'newsflash' with a purple accent on the letter 's', while the right shows the same text without this accent

Composition

  • two identical side-by-side
  • centered text
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows two identical side-by-side panels of pixelated cyan text on a solid black background. Each panel contains the text 'newsflash' (with the 's' in 'newsflash' having a small purple accent), followed by 'baby', then 'I don't believe in Fairytales'. The left panel's 'newsflash' has a visible purple pixel cluster replacing part of the letter 's', while the right panel shows the same text without this purple detail. Both panels use a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital displays.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on black background with purple accent, displaying repeated lyrics and a single frame of animation.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200802030918041494719586

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan newsflash baby I don't believe in Fairytales
  • purple accent s newsflash
  • pixelated cyan text black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: The left panel displays 'newsflash' with a purple accent on the letter 's', while the right panel shows the same text without this accent.
  • quarantined wordwall: two identical side-by-side panels
  • quarantined composition: two identical side-by-side panels
  • quarantined animation: right panel lacks this accent
  • quarantined animation: left panel has purple accent on 's' in 'newsflash'

Visible Text

  • newsflash
  • baby
  • I don't
  • believe in
  • Fairytales

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black background
  • purple accent on s
  • newsflash baby I don't believe in Fairytales
  • pixelated font
  • two identical side-by-side

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802030918041494719586
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4a/4a86d17719b4a41946485f7ab6436293a8fad50ff3a97073188eabeea5d03edf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC
Archive ID
4a86d17719b4a419
SHA-256
4a86d17719b4a41946485f7ab6436293a8fad50ff3a97073188eabeea5d03edf
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:14 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091995

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cyan text on black background with purple accent, displaying repeated lyrics and a single frame of animation.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 14:49 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,235 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 706

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • left has purple accent on s in newsflash (other, 0.80)
  • right lacks this accent (other, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • left has purple accent on 's' in 'newsflash'
  • right lacks this accent

Animation Summary

  • The left displays 'newsflash' with a purple accent on the letter 's', while the right shows the same text without this accent

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • purple

Composition

  • two identical side-by-side
  • centered text
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows two identical side-by-side panels of pixelated cyan text on a solid black background. Each panel contains the text 'newsflash' (with the 's' in 'newsflash' having a small purple accent), followed by 'baby', then 'I don't believe in Fairytales'. The left panel's 'newsflash' has a visible purple pixel cluster replacing part of the letter 's', while the right panel shows the same text without this purple detail. Both panels use a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital displays.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on black background with purple accent, displaying repeated lyrics and a single frame of animation.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200802030918041494719586

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan newsflash baby I don't believe in Fairytales
  • purple accent s newsflash
  • pixelated cyan text black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: The left panel displays 'newsflash' with a purple accent on the letter 's', while the right panel shows the same text without this accent.
  • quarantined wordwall: two identical side-by-side panels
  • quarantined composition: two identical side-by-side panels
  • quarantined animation: right panel lacks this accent
  • quarantined animation: left panel has purple accent on 's' in 'newsflash'

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • newsflash
  • baby
  • I don't
  • believe in
  • Fairytales

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black background
  • purple accent on s
  • newsflash baby I don't believe in Fairytales
  • pixelated font
  • two identical side-by-side
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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
200802030918041494719586
Archive entry
200802030918041494719586.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 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#200802030918041494719586.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802030918041494719586.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016