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Black-and-white pixelated text on a blurred background with two figures, displaying a message about handling someone at their worst or best.

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Black-and-white pixelated text on a blurred background with two figures, displaying a message about handling someone at their worst or best.

Black-and-white pixelated text on a blurred background with two figures, displaying a message about handling someone at their worst or best. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text overlaid on background
  • two figures behind text
  • centered text layout

Dense Caption

Black-and-white pixelated text on a blurred background with two dark silhouetted figures. Left side text reads "if u cant handle me at my worst"; right side text reads "u dont deserve me at my best". Text uses a bold, blocky font with visible pixelation. Background is a low-resolution grayscale image with indistinct shapes. The text is the primary focus, with the figures positioned behind it. The image has a grainy, low-resolution appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated text on a blurred background with two figures, displaying a message about handling someone at their worst or best.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709021249251040925255

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • buddy icon text message
  • if u cant handle me at my worst
  • u dont deserve me at my best
  • grayscale pixelated text
  • silhouetted figures background
  • 2007 buddy icon
  • humor buddy icon
  • blocky font text

Preprocessing Notes

  • grainy, low-resolution appearance

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • if u cant handle me at my worst
  • u dont deserve me at my best

Wordwall

  • black-and-white
  • pixelated text
  • two silhouetted figures
  • grayscale background
  • blocky font
  • grainy appearance
  • text message
  • low-resolution
  • silhouettes behind text
  • grayscale

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709021249251040925255
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.8 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/51/5114a56c85b53664837ed03d233433ee465a4bf864fa2fcbe97336f189472027.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
5114a56c85b53664
SHA-256
5114a56c85b53664837ed03d233433ee465a4bf864fa2fcbe97336f189472027
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 06:54 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.023241

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:22 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.158642

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black-and-white pixelated text on a blurred background with two figures, displaying a message about handling someone at their worst or best.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 09:12 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,369 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 827

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  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • text overlaid on background
  • two figures behind text
  • centered text layout

Dense Caption

Black-and-white pixelated text on a blurred background with two dark silhouetted figures. Left side text reads "if u cant handle me at my worst"; right side text reads "u dont deserve me at my best". Text uses a bold, blocky font with visible pixelation. Background is a low-resolution grayscale image with indistinct shapes. The text is the primary focus, with the figures positioned behind it. The image has a grainy, low-resolution appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated text on a blurred background with two figures, displaying a message about handling someone at their worst or best.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709021249251040925255

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • confident
  • assertive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • buddy icon text message
  • if u cant handle me at my worst
  • u dont deserve me at my best
  • grayscale pixelated text
  • silhouetted figures background
  • 2007 buddy icon
  • humor buddy icon
  • blocky font text

Preprocessing Notes

  • grainy, low-resolution appearance

Source Metadata Interpretation

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Subjects

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Wordwall

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  • two silhouetted figures
  • grayscale background
  • blocky font
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:58 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
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Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200709021249251040925255
Archive entry
200709021249251040925255.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#200709021249251040925255.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709021249251040925255.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016