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Red pixelated text on black background with white stars and dotted lines, showing animation changes in letter shapes.

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Red pixelated text on black background with white stars and dotted lines, showing animation changes in letter shapes.

Red pixelated text on black background with white stars and dotted lines, showing animation changes in letter shapes. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Color

Source terms

Animation

  • character rendering shifts
  • star placement changes

Animation Summary

  • Text character rendering shifts and star placement changes across six views

Composition

  • six views
  • text centered

Dense Caption

Six grid views of identical red pixelated text 'Show me what i'm looking for.' on solid black background. Text uses blocky 8-bit style font; each frame shows slight variations in character rendering (e.g., 'm' in 'me', 'i' in 'i'm', and the period). White stars appear at top-left, bottom-right corners of some frames with dotted lines connecting to text. Animation changes include subtle shifts in pixel alignment across all six views.

Description

  • Red pixelated text on black background with white stars and dotted lines, showing animation changes in letter shapes.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090425171443933084121

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated text black background
  • 8-bit font style animation
  • show me what i'm looking for
  • white stars dotted lines

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Text character rendering shifts and star placement changes across six grid views.
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Visible Text

  • Show me what i'm looking for.

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • white stars
  • dotted lines
  • 8-bit font style
  • text variations

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090425171443933084121
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/55/5588c68c1cc3f77afb7bcf5138603b7bfeacd42a227d2ded2e39bb697465fb86.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
5588c68c1cc3f77a
SHA-256
5588c68c1cc3f77afb7bcf5138603b7bfeacd42a227d2ded2e39bb697465fb86
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 06:09 UTC
Run
1295
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000539

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:27 UTC
Run
1037
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Red pixelated text on black background with white stars and dotted lines, showing animation changes in letter shapes.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 07:56 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,423 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,162, response 619

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • character rendering shifts (other, 0.80)
  • star placement changes (other, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • character rendering shifts
  • star placement changes

Animation Summary

  • Text character rendering shifts and star placement changes across six views

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • six views
  • text centered

Dense Caption

Six grid views of identical red pixelated text 'Show me what i'm looking for.' on solid black background. Text uses blocky 8-bit style font; each frame shows slight variations in character rendering (e.g., 'm' in 'me', 'i' in 'i'm', and the period). White stars appear at top-left, bottom-right corners of some frames with dotted lines connecting to text. Animation changes include subtle shifts in pixel alignment across all six views.

Description

  • Red pixelated text on black background with white stars and dotted lines, showing animation changes in letter shapes.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090425171443933084121

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated text black background
  • 8-bit font style animation
  • show me what i'm looking for
  • white stars dotted lines

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Text character rendering shifts and star placement changes across six grid views.
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • Show me what i'm looking for.

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • white stars
  • dotted lines
  • 8-bit font style
  • text variations
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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
20090425171443933084121
Archive entry
20090425171443933084121.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#20090425171443933084121.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090425171443933084121.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016