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Blue background with repeated white text 'places to cry: in the rain, and in 'his' arms' and scattered yellow and white stars.

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Blue background with repeated white text 'places to cry: in the rain, and in 'his' arms' and scattered yellow and white stars.

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Composition

  • text
  • stars scattered throughout
  • gray rectangle in bottom right

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Blue background with repeated white text 'places to cry: in the rain, and in 'his' arms' across multiple rows. Yellow stars and white stars scattered throughout the text. The text is arranged in a grid-like pattern with four columns and five rows. The stars vary in size and position, with some stars appearing to be partially obscured by the text. The text is rendered in a pixelated font typical of early digital graphics. The rightmost column has a gray rectangular area at the bottom. The stars include both solid yellow and white star shapes, with some stars having a slightly blurred appearance. The text 'his' is enclosed in single quotation marks. The phrase 'places to cry' is consistently repeated at the beginning of each line. The word 'arms' is positioned below the phrase 'in 'his''.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated white text 'places to cry: in the rain, and in 'his' arms' and scattered yellow and white stars.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20080906161320149591433
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20080906161320149591433

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white text yellow stars
  • repeated text places to cry
  • text in his arms
  • stars scattered
  • pixelated font blue background
  • text places to cry in the rain
  • single quotation marks his arms
  • gray rectangle bottom right

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: text arranged in grid
  • quarantined retrieval: grid layout stars scattered

Visible Text

  • places to cry: in the rain, and in 'his' arms

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text
  • yellow stars
  • white stars
  • repeated text
  • pixelated font
  • single quotation marks
  • gray rectangle
  • scattered stars
  • text 'places to cry'
  • text 'in the rain'
  • text 'in 'his' arms'
  • text 'his'
  • text 'arms'
  • text 'rain'
  • text 'cry'
  • text 'places'
  • text 'and'
  • text 'in'
  • text 'the'
  • text 'to'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080906161320149591433
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

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GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
999 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
5c6322ee23a8c379
SHA-256
5c6322ee23a8c3793fef588130bdefd63b04ed6651ed937fa261fe51e0572275
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:35 UTC
Run
1039
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Blue background with repeated white text 'places to cry: in the rain, and in 'his' arms' and scattered yellow and white stars.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 23:07 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
12,017 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,120, response 1,152

Review tags

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Colors

  • blue
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  • yellow
  • gray

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  • text
  • stars scattered throughout
  • gray rectangle in bottom right

Dense Caption

Blue background with repeated white text 'places to cry: in the rain, and in 'his' arms' across multiple rows. Yellow stars and white stars scattered throughout the text. The text is arranged in a grid-like pattern with four columns and five rows. The stars vary in size and position, with some stars appearing to be partially obscured by the text. The text is rendered in a pixelated font typical of early digital graphics. The rightmost column has a gray rectangular area at the bottom. The stars include both solid yellow and white star shapes, with some stars having a slightly blurred appearance. The text 'his' is enclosed in single quotation marks. The phrase 'places to cry' is consistently repeated at the beginning of each line. The word 'arms' is positioned below the phrase 'in 'his''.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated white text 'places to cry: in the rain, and in 'his' arms' and scattered yellow and white stars.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20080906161320149591433
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20080906161320149591433

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  • melancholic
  • repetitive
  • nostalgic

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Style

  • pixelated
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  • text 'in 'his' arms'
  • text 'his'
  • text 'arms'
  • text 'rain'
  • text 'cry'
  • text 'places'
  • text 'and'
  • text 'in'
  • text 'the'
  • text 'to'
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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
20080906161320149591433
Archive entry
20080906161320149591433.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#20080906161320149591433.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080906161320149591433.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016