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Pixelated text on a light blue background reads "It Takes Talent... To Trip over Flat Surfaces! hehe (:" in pink, purple, green, and yellow lettering.

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Pixelated text on a light blue background reads "It Takes Talent... To Trip over Flat Surfaces! hehe (:" in pink, purple, green, and yellow lettering.

Pixelated text on a light blue background reads "It Takes Talent... To Trip over Flat Surfaces! hehe (:" in pink, purple, green, and yellow lettering. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-left text block
  • top-right text block
  • bottom-left text block
  • bottom-right text block

Dense Caption

Light blue pixelated background. Text elements: top-left 'It' in pink with white outline; below it 'Takes' in pink with white outline; below that 'Talent...' in pink with white outline; top-right 'To' in purple with white outline; below it 'Trip' in purple with white outline; below that 'over' in purple with white outline; bottom-left 'Flat' in green with white outline; below it 'Surfaces!' in green with white outline; bottom-right 'hehe (:' in yellow with white outline. All text uses pixelated sans-serif font.

Description

Pixelated text on a light blue background reads "It Takes Talent... To Trip over Flat Surfaces! hehe (:" in pink, purple, green, and yellow lettering.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081215135411988345086
  • 20081215135414862941953

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light blue background pixelated text
  • It Takes Talent Trip over Flat Surfaces hehe
  • pink purple green yellow text
  • text-based buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata hints but no pixel evidence supports them; all claims are image-only.

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Visible Text

  • It
  • Takes
  • Talent...
  • To
  • Trip
  • over
  • Flat
  • Surfaces!
  • hehe (:

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • pixelated text
  • 'It' pink
  • 'Takes' pink
  • 'Talent...' pink
  • 'To' purple
  • 'Trip' purple
  • 'over' purple
  • 'Flat' green
  • 'Surfaces!' green
  • 'hehe (:' yellow
  • white outlines on all text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081215135411988345086
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081215135414862941953
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5a/5abebe79ef18b5c60acc107baf09e454d2c201c501deeb1ee712e0a9108d37d6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
5abebe79ef18b5c6
SHA-256
5abebe79ef18b5c60acc107baf09e454d2c201c501deeb1ee712e0a9108d37d6
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.127951

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924526onnx/unsafe0.127951onnx/nsfw0.092223onnx/nsfl0.035728
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Pixelated text on a light blue background reads "It Takes Talent... To Trip over Flat Surfaces! hehe (:" in pink, purple, green, and yellow lettering.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 13:52 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,473 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,150, response 899

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • sans serif font (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • pink
  • purple
  • green
  • yellow
  • white

Composition

  • top-left text block
  • top-right text block
  • bottom-left text block
  • bottom-right text block

Dense Caption

Light blue pixelated background. Text elements: top-left 'It' in pink with white outline; below it 'Takes' in pink with white outline; below that 'Talent...' in pink with white outline; top-right 'To' in purple with white outline; below it 'Trip' in purple with white outline; below that 'over' in purple with white outline; bottom-left 'Flat' in green with white outline; below it 'Surfaces!' in green with white outline; bottom-right 'hehe (:' in yellow with white outline. All text uses pixelated sans-serif font.

Description

Pixelated text on a light blue background reads "It Takes Talent... To Trip over Flat Surfaces! hehe (:" in pink, purple, green, and yellow lettering.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081215135411988345086
  • 20081215135414862941953

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light blue background pixelated text
  • It Takes Talent Trip over Flat Surfaces hehe
  • pink purple green yellow text
  • text-based buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata hints but no pixel evidence supports them; all claims are image-only.

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • sans-serif font
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • It
  • Takes
  • Talent...
  • To
  • Trip
  • over
  • Flat
  • Surfaces!
  • hehe (:

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • pixelated text
  • 'It' pink
  • 'Takes' pink
  • 'Talent...' pink
  • 'To' purple
  • 'Trip' purple
  • 'over' purple
  • 'Flat' green
  • 'Surfaces!' green
  • 'hehe (:' yellow
  • white outlines on all text
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Full source records (2)

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
20081215135411988345086
Archive entry
20081215135411988345086.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#20081215135411988345086.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081215135411988345086.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20081215135414862941953
Archive entry
20081215135414862941953.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#20081215135414862941953.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081215135414862941953.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016