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A static image with cyan background displaying '5 Years Apart' text and '<333' symbols in black pixelated font across two

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Source terms

Composition

  • two
  • text and symbols aligned
  • identical

Dense Caption

Cyan background with black pixelated text. Top row: '5 Years Apart' followed by two '<333' symbols. Bottom row: '5 Years Apart' followed by two '<333' symbols. Text and symbols are identical in both rows. Font is blocky, low-resolution, and pixelated. No animation or motion observed. All elements are static and fixed in position.

Description

  • A static image with cyan background displaying '5 Years Apart' text and '<333' symbols in black pixelated font across two

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

  • 5 Years Apart
  • <333
  • cyan background
  • pixelated text
  • two
  • black text
  • low-resolution
  • static image

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static image with cyan background displaying '5 Years Apart' text and '<333' symbols in black pixelated font across two rows.
  • quarantined wordwall: two rows
  • quarantined composition: identical rows
  • quarantined composition: two rows
  • quarantined retrieval: two rows

Visible Text

  • 5
  • Years
  • Apart
  • <333

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • black pixelated text
  • 5 Years Apart
  • <333
  • two
  • identical text
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080824160148255409272
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4f/4ff4a19e8eab5960d41f8e534febc0fd533016bc53eb01a2e0b9828587620c87.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
4ff4a19e8eab5960
SHA-256
4ff4a19e8eab5960d41f8e534febc0fd533016bc53eb01a2e0b9828587620c87
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 06:41 UTC
Run
1295
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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July 23, 2026 at 16:20 UTC
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A static image with cyan background displaying '5 Years Apart' text and '<333' symbols in black pixelated font across two

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 21:22 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,370 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,166, response 647

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • black

Composition

  • two
  • text and symbols aligned
  • identical

Dense Caption

Cyan background with black pixelated text. Top row: '5 Years Apart' followed by two '<333' symbols. Bottom row: '5 Years Apart' followed by two '<333' symbols. Text and symbols are identical in both rows. Font is blocky, low-resolution, and pixelated. No animation or motion observed. All elements are static and fixed in position.

Description

  • A static image with cyan background displaying '5 Years Apart' text and '<333' symbols in black pixelated font across two

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

  • 5 Years Apart
  • <333
  • cyan background
  • pixelated text
  • two
  • black text
  • low-resolution
  • static image

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static image with cyan background displaying '5 Years Apart' text and '<333' symbols in black pixelated font across two rows.
  • quarantined wordwall: two rows
  • quarantined composition: identical rows
  • quarantined composition: two rows
  • quarantined retrieval: two rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • 5
  • Years
  • Apart
  • <333

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • black pixelated text
  • 5 Years Apart
  • <333
  • two
  • identical text
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution
  • static image
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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
20080824160148255409272
Archive entry
20080824160148255409272.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#20080824160148255409272.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080824160148255409272.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016