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A static image with cyan background displaying repeated text and symbols in black pixelated font.

A static image with cyan background displaying repeated text and symbols in black pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all frames show identical content with static text and symbols.

Composition

  • three horizontal of identical text blocks
  • symbols placed between in specific positions

Dense Caption

The image shows a cyan background with three horizontal rows of identical text blocks. Each block contains 'Boy: Get a clue' followed by '</3'. Between the top and middle row, there is a '+' symbol on the left, a '*' symbol in the center, and an 'x' symbol on the right. Between the middle and bottom row, there is a '+' symbol on the left, a '.' symbol in the center, and '...' symbols on the right. The text and symbols are rendered in black pixelated font with visible anti-aliasing effects.

Description

  • A static image with cyan background displaying repeated text and symbols in black pixelated font.

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
  • 200710081814471452326638

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background black pixelated 'Boy: Get a clue'</3'
  • three repeated text '+' '*' 'x' between

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; all observations show identical content
  • quarantined wordwall: middle row has '+' '.' '...' between rows
  • quarantined wordwall: top row has '+' '*' 'x' between rows
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows of identical content
  • quarantined wordwall: 'Boy: Get a clue'</3' repeated three times horizontally per row
  • quarantined composition: symbols placed between rows in specific positions
  • quarantined composition: three horizontal rows of identical text blocks
  • quarantined retrieval: three rows repeated text '+' '*' 'x' between rows

Visible Text

  • Boy: Get a clue</3
  • +
  • *
  • x
  • .
  • ...

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • black pixelated text
  • 'Boy: Get a clue'</3' repeated three times horizontally per
  • three of identical content
  • top has '+' '*' 'x' between
  • middle has '+' '.' '...' between
  • text size consistent across all instances
  • font style is blocky and retro

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710081814471452326638
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5c/5cf463d089d859803d81770a41faebefed1806d0fd0e7eb44cf31ec55d593267.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC
Archive ID
5cf463d089d85980
SHA-256
5cf463d089d859803d81770a41faebefed1806d0fd0e7eb44cf31ec55d593267
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:35 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.143075

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A static image with cyan background displaying repeated text and symbols in black pixelated font.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 08:34 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,872 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 646

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all frames show identical content with static text and symbols.

Colors

  • cyan
  • black

Composition

  • three horizontal of identical text blocks
  • symbols placed between in specific positions

Dense Caption

The image shows a cyan background with three horizontal rows of identical text blocks. Each block contains 'Boy: Get a clue' followed by '</3'. Between the top and middle row, there is a '+' symbol on the left, a '*' symbol in the center, and an 'x' symbol on the right. Between the middle and bottom row, there is a '+' symbol on the left, a '.' symbol in the center, and '...' symbols on the right. The text and symbols are rendered in black pixelated font with visible anti-aliasing effects.

Description

  • A static image with cyan background displaying repeated text and symbols in black pixelated font.

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
  • 200710081814471452326638

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background black pixelated 'Boy: Get a clue'</3'
  • three repeated text '+' '*' 'x' between

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; all observations show identical content
  • quarantined wordwall: middle row has '+' '.' '...' between rows
  • quarantined wordwall: top row has '+' '*' 'x' between rows
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows of identical content
  • quarantined wordwall: 'Boy: Get a clue'</3' repeated three times horizontally per row
  • quarantined composition: symbols placed between rows in specific positions
  • quarantined composition: three horizontal rows of identical text blocks
  • quarantined retrieval: three rows repeated text '+' '*' 'x' between rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • blocky

Visible Text

  • Boy: Get a clue</3
  • +
  • *
  • x
  • .
  • ...

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • black pixelated text
  • 'Boy: Get a clue'</3' repeated three times horizontally per
  • three of identical content
  • top has '+' '*' 'x' between
  • middle has '+' '.' '...' between
  • text size consistent across all instances
  • font style is blocky and retro
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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
200710081814471452326638
Archive entry
200710081814471452326638.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 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#200710081814471452326638.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710081814471452326638.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016