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Pixelated text and emoticon on pink background with red highlight boxes cycling through different lines of text.

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Pixelated text and emoticon on pink background with red highlight boxes cycling through different lines of text.

Pixelated text and emoticon on pink background with red highlight boxes cycling through different lines of text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • highlight cycling through three distinct text lines

Animation Summary

  • Red highlight box cycles through three text lines: "too bad", "i didnt knoi about you", and "earlier" while the emoticon <3 remains static.

Composition

  • centered text
  • static emoticon below

Dense Caption

Pink background displays pixelated white text reading "too bad i didnt knoi about you earlier <3" in three rows. Red rectangular highlights cycle across the text: first over "too bad", then over "i didnt knoi about you", and finally over "earlier". The emoticon <3 remains static below the text throughout all cycles.

Description

  • Pixelated text and emoticon on pink background with red highlight boxes cycling through different lines of text.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2008040523114233406320

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background white text red highlights
  • cycling text highlights pink emoticon
  • apologetic sentiment pixelated animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: centered text rows

Visible Text

  • too bad
  • i didnt knoi about you
  • earlier
  • <3

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white pixelated text
  • red highlight boxes
  • <3 emoticon
  • cycling highlights

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008040523114233406320
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
836 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5a/5a3b6b7a154dfd4f000af9dfe3d41dbfb886ce9e4b34f88a7c1524adb9e210c0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC
Archive ID
5a3b6b7a154dfd4f
SHA-256
5a3b6b7a154dfd4f000af9dfe3d41dbfb886ce9e4b34f88a7c1524adb9e210c0
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:33 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.123480

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and emoticon on pink background with red highlight boxes cycling through different lines of text.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 00:15 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,671 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,162, response 651

Review tags

  • highlight cycling (action, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • apologetic (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • emoticon (object, 0.80)
  • text lines (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • highlight cycling

Animation

  • highlight cycling through three distinct text lines

Animation Summary

  • Red highlight box cycles through three text lines: "too bad", "i didnt knoi about you", and "earlier" while the emoticon <3 remains static.

Colors

  • pink
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • centered text
  • static emoticon below

Dense Caption

Pink background displays pixelated white text reading "too bad i didnt knoi about you earlier <3" in three rows. Red rectangular highlights cycle across the text: first over "too bad", then over "i didnt knoi about you", and finally over "earlier". The emoticon <3 remains static below the text throughout all cycles.

Description

  • Pixelated text and emoticon on pink background with red highlight boxes cycling through different lines of text.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2008040523114233406320

Mood

  • apologetic
  • sentimental

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background white text red highlights
  • cycling text highlights pink emoticon
  • apologetic sentiment pixelated animation

Objects

  • text lines
  • emoticon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: centered text rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • too bad
  • i didnt knoi about you
  • earlier
  • <3

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white pixelated text
  • red highlight boxes
  • <3 emoticon
  • cycling highlights
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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
2008040523114233406320
Archive entry
2008040523114233406320.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 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#2008040523114233406320.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008040523114233406320.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016