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Black background with red X-shaped lines overlaid on repeated white pixelated text reading 'How did you know that it was me that was staring?? staring??' in a pattern
Black background with red X-shaped lines overlaid on repeated white pixelated text reading 'How did you know that it was me that was staring?? staring??' in a pattern. Animated 48…
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Source & archive date
- Added to archive
- July 12, 2026
Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
- Source title
- 2008012510245821178813
- Era
- Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
- Observed
- July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Technical archive details
- Format
- GIF
- Dimensions
- 48×48 pixels
- File size
- 4.2 KB
- Motion
- Animated (4 frames)
- Added to archive
- July 12, 2026
- Relative path
- icons/4e/4e962ddc23233f626c0b147f23849bca73cd68626fe1b0390bffeb53cbeeda36.gif
- Media type
- image/gif
- Scanner metadata
- v1
- Animation inspected
- July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
- Archive ID
- 4e962ddc23233f62
- SHA-256
- 4e962ddc23233f626c0b147f23849bca73cd68626fe1b0390bffeb53cbeeda36
Content-safety assessments (1)
- Assessed
- July 23, 2026 at 16:19 UTC
- Run
- 1034
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
- Overall label
- sfw
- Overall score
- 0.087525
OpenAI category scores
Enrichment records (1)
Black background with red X-shaped lines overlaid on repeated white pixelated text reading 'How did you know that it was me that was staring?? staring??' in a pattern
- Reviewed
- July 31, 2026 at 12:48 UTC
- Run
- 55
- Version
- v5
- Elapsed
- 9,056 ms
- Tokens
- prompt 2,105, response 711
Review tags
- staring (action, 0.80)
- black (color, 0.80)
- red (color, 0.80)
- white (color, 0.80)
- questioning (mood, 0.80)
- unsettling (mood, 0.80)
- lines (object, 0.80)
- low resolution (style, 0.80)
- pixelated (style, 0.80)
- repetitive (style, 0.80)
- red lines (subject, 0.80)
- text (subject, 0.80)
Actions
- staring
Colors
- black
- red
- white
Composition
- pattern of text and lines
- uniform repetition across entire image
Dense Caption
The image displays a black background covered by repeating red X-shaped line patterns. Overlaid on this are multiple instances of white pixelated text arranged in rows and columns, each instance reading "How did you know that it was me that was staring?? staring??". The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics. Each repetition of the text appears identical across all visible sections of the image.
Description
Black background with red X-shaped lines overlaid on repeated white pixelated text reading 'How did you know that it was me that was staring?? staring??' in a pattern
Metadata Not Confirmed By Image
- provenance era: 2007
- provenance era: 2016
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- 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
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- 2008012510245821178813
Mood
- unsettling
- repetitive
- questioning
Non Redundant Search Phrases
- black background red lines white text staring
- pixelated repeating text How did you know
- repeated staring question mark text
- red X lines black background pixel art
Objects
- lines
Preprocessing Notes
- quarantined description: Black background with red X-shaped lines overlaid on repeated white pixelated text reading 'How did you know that it was me that was staring?? staring??' in a grid pattern.
- quarantined wordwall: repeated grid pattern
- quarantined style: repetitive grid
- quarantined composition: grid pattern of text and lines
- quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid repeating text How did you know
Style
- pixelated
- low-resolution
- repetitive
Subjects
- text
- red lines
Visible Text
- How did you know that it was me that was staring?? staring??
Wordwall
- black background
- red X-shaped lines
- white pixelated text
- repeated pattern
- text reads 'How did you know that it was me that was staring?? staring??'
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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
- 2008012510245821178813
- Archive entry
- 2008012510245821178813.gif
- Observed
- July 12, 2026 at 15:11 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#2008012510245821178813.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008012510245821178813.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016