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

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

Blue background with repeated white text 'places to cry: in the rain, in his arms' and yellow star symbols scattered throughout. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • yellow stars change position across frames

Animation Summary

  • Yellow stars move between positions across frames while text and background remain static.

Composition

  • repeated text
  • star symbols scattered

Dense Caption

Blue background with repeated white text 'places to cry: in the rain, in his arms' arranged in a grid pattern. Yellow star symbols appear at various positions among the text. The text repeats across the image in multiple rows and columns. The rightmost column contains a solid gray rectangular area. The text and stars are rendered in a pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

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

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
  • 20080906130450875787019

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white text yellow stars
  • places to cry in the rain in his arms
  • repeated text
  • pixelated buddy icon animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • rightmost column contains solid gray rectangle
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: repeated text rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated text grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Visible Text

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

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text
  • yellow stars
  • repeated text
  • pixelated style
  • gray rectangle
  • in the rain
  • in his arms
  • places to cry

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080906130450875787019
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
984 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
62b00f94118527f2
SHA-256
62b00f94118527f2715a98a3b5d9df0a664928ae9e58f9a93b9153c57b1a4b2b
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Assessed
July 30, 2026 at 20:11 UTC
Run
1249
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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July 23, 2026 at 16:41 UTC
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Blue background with repeated white text 'places to cry: in the rain, in his arms' and yellow star symbols scattered throughout.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 23:04 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,055 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,127, response 819

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • yellow stars change position across frames (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • yellow stars change position across frames

Animation Summary

  • Yellow stars move between positions across frames while text and background remain static.

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • yellow
  • gray

Composition

  • repeated text
  • star symbols scattered

Dense Caption

Blue background with repeated white text 'places to cry: in the rain, in his arms' arranged in a grid pattern. Yellow star symbols appear at various positions among the text. The text repeats across the image in multiple rows and columns. The rightmost column contains a solid gray rectangular area. The text and stars are rendered in a pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

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

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
  • 20080906130450875787019

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • melancholic
  • repetitive
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white text yellow stars
  • places to cry in the rain in his arms
  • repeated text
  • pixelated buddy icon animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • rightmost column contains solid gray rectangle
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: repeated text rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated text grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • repetitive
  • text-based

Visible Text

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

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text
  • yellow stars
  • repeated text
  • pixelated style
  • gray rectangle
  • in the rain
  • in his arms
  • places to cry
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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
20080906130450875787019
Archive entry
20080906130450875787019.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#20080906130450875787019.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080906130450875787019.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016