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Black background with yellow pixelated dots scattered across, displaying repeated white text in a blocky font.

Black background with yellow pixelated dots scattered across, displaying repeated white text in a blocky font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text blocks
  • random yellow dots on black background

Dense Caption

The image shows a black background filled with small yellow square pixels arranged randomly. Overlaid on this are two identical blocks of white text in a pixelated sans-serif font: "TRUST ME I went to Bryn Mawr" repeated twice per block, separated by a period. The text appears static across all observations.

Description

  • Black background with yellow pixelated dots scattered across, displaying repeated white text in a blocky font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200903040904341535890205

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bryn mawr trust me
  • pixelated text black background yellow dots
  • trust me i went to bryn mawr
  • repeated white text on black

Visible Text

  • TRUST ME
  • I went to
  • Bryn Mawr

Wordwall

  • black background
  • yellow square pixels
  • white text
  • pixelated font
  • repeated text blocks
  • Bryn Mawr
  • TRUST ME
  • I went to

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200903040904341535890205
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
688 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/50/507a75eda3496f92cc4a701131ce404651f964bb0c7ac808edf8e91f862adde7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
507a75eda3496f92
SHA-256
507a75eda3496f92cc4a701131ce404651f964bb0c7ac808edf8e91f862adde7
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 21, 2026 at 00:31 UTC
Run
70
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072483

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Black background with yellow pixelated dots scattered across, displaying repeated white text in a blocky font.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 01:36 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,627 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 568

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • yellow
  • white

Composition

  • centered text blocks
  • random yellow dots on black background

Dense Caption

The image shows a black background filled with small yellow square pixels arranged randomly. Overlaid on this are two identical blocks of white text in a pixelated sans-serif font: "TRUST ME I went to Bryn Mawr" repeated twice per block, separated by a period. The text appears static across all observations.

Description

  • Black background with yellow pixelated dots scattered across, displaying repeated white text in a blocky font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200903040904341535890205

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bryn mawr trust me
  • pixelated text black background yellow dots
  • trust me i went to bryn mawr
  • repeated white text on black

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • TRUST ME
  • I went to
  • Bryn Mawr

Wordwall

  • black background
  • yellow square pixels
  • white text
  • pixelated font
  • repeated text blocks
  • Bryn Mawr
  • TRUST ME
  • I went to
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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
200903040904341535890205
Archive entry
200903040904341535890205.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#200903040904341535890205.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200903040904341535890205.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016