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Pixelated text on bright pink background with small star symbols below, showing two nearly identical frames side-by-side.

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Pixelated text on bright pink background with small star symbols below, showing two nearly identical frames side-by-side.

Pixelated text on bright pink background with small star symbols below, showing two nearly identical frames side-by-side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • the 'k' in "took" is slightly less distinct in the right frame compared to the left frame

Animation Summary

  • The 'k' in "took" is slightly less distinct in the right frame compared to the left frame.

Composition

  • centered text
  • horizontal star arrangement

Dense Caption

Bright pink solid background. Pixelated white text reads "He walked by and took my breath away.." in four lines; the word "took" is misspelled as "took". Below the text are six small pixelated star symbols arranged horizontally, with two stars on each side slightly larger than the middle two. The left frame shows a more distinct 'k' in "took", while the right frame has a less distinct 'k'. Both frames have identical layout and color scheme.

Description

  • Pixelated text on bright pink background with small star symbols below, showing two nearly identical frames side-by-side.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080508184807294226682

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background white text
  • misspelled took star symbols
  • pixelated romantic quote
  • two side-by-side frames

Visible Text

  • He walked by and took my breath away..

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white text
  • misspelled took
  • star symbols
  • pixelated font
  • two side-by-side frames

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080508184807294226682
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/57/57e1f7fc74cab7a2d4ea39bdd3f40f61e908a0769cc93c95fb5b068ca04b4b05.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC
Archive ID
57e1f7fc74cab7a2
SHA-256
57e1f7fc74cab7a2d4ea39bdd3f40f61e908a0769cc93c95fb5b068ca04b4b05
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Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.000091

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:30 UTC
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Pixelated text on bright pink background with small star symbols below, showing two nearly identical frames side-by-side.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 13:20 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,563 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 675

Review tags

  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • romantic (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • the 'k' in "took" is slightly less distinct in the right frame compared to the left frame

Animation Summary

  • The 'k' in "took" is slightly less distinct in the right frame compared to the left frame.

Colors

  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • centered text
  • horizontal star arrangement

Dense Caption

Bright pink solid background. Pixelated white text reads "He walked by and took my breath away.." in four lines; the word "took" is misspelled as "took". Below the text are six small pixelated star symbols arranged horizontally, with two stars on each side slightly larger than the middle two. The left frame shows a more distinct 'k' in "took", while the right frame has a less distinct 'k'. Both frames have identical layout and color scheme.

Description

  • Pixelated text on bright pink background with small star symbols below, showing two nearly identical frames side-by-side.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080508184807294226682

Mood

  • romantic
  • sentimental

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background white text
  • misspelled took star symbols
  • pixelated romantic quote
  • two side-by-side frames

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • He walked by and took my breath away..

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white text
  • misspelled took
  • star symbols
  • pixelated font
  • two side-by-side frames
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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
20080508184807294226682
Archive entry
20080508184807294226682.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 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#20080508184807294226682.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080508184807294226682.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016