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Red text on black background reads 'hiya niamh hows it goin' with pink symbols changing from plus to star to X across three

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Red text on black background reads 'hiya niamh hows it goin' with pink symbols changing from plus to star to X across three

Red text on black background reads 'hiya niamh hows it goin' with pink symbols changing from plus to star to X across three. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • symbols change from plus to star to X
  • later frames show dots replacing symbols

Animation Summary

  • Text remains static while pink symbols change from plus to star to X across three , later replaced by dots

Composition

  • vertical text layout
  • three- arrangement

Dense Caption

Black background displays red pixelated text reading 'hiya', 'niamh', 'hows', 'it', and 'goin' in vertical alignment. Three identical column layouts show sequential symbol changes: first column has a purple plus sign next to 'goin', second column shows a purple star, third column features a purple X; later frames replace these symbols with dots or small clusters of dots. Text remains static while only the pink symbols animate.

Description

  • Red text on black background reads 'hiya niamh hows it goin' with pink symbols changing from plus to star to X across three

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
  • 20080503080321274564136

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red text black background
  • three animation
  • plus star x symbols
  • dots replacing symbols

Objects

  • plus sign

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Red text on black background reads 'hiya niamh hows it goin' with pink symbols changing from plus to star to X across three columns.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Text remains static while pink symbols change from plus to star to X across three columns, later replaced by dots.
  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined composition: three-column arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: three column animation

Visible Text

  • hiya
  • niamh
  • hows
  • it
  • goin

Wordwall

  • red text
  • black background
  • three
  • plus symbol
  • star symbol
  • X symbol
  • dots
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080503080321274564136
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
489 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/66/66bc724a1599183e66a1618b40a05b7a35c3d14c0b289371034a0111604d17ba.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC
Archive ID
66bc724a1599183e
SHA-256
66bc724a1599183e66a1618b40a05b7a35c3d14c0b289371034a0111604d17ba
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:45 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.105215

OpenAI category scores

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Red text on black background reads 'hiya niamh hows it goin' with pink symbols changing from plus to star to X across three

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 11:23 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,721 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 679

Review tags

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  • black (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • plus sign (object, 0.80)
  • star sign (object, 0.80)
  • x sign (object, 0.80)
  • later frames show dots replacing symbols (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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  • text based (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • symbols change from plus to star to X

Animation

  • symbols change from plus to star to X
  • later frames show dots replacing symbols

Animation Summary

  • Text remains static while pink symbols change from plus to star to X across three , later replaced by dots

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • purple

Composition

  • vertical text layout
  • three- arrangement

Dense Caption

Black background displays red pixelated text reading 'hiya', 'niamh', 'hows', 'it', and 'goin' in vertical alignment. Three identical column layouts show sequential symbol changes: first column has a purple plus sign next to 'goin', second column shows a purple star, third column features a purple X; later frames replace these symbols with dots or small clusters of dots. Text remains static while only the pink symbols animate.

Description

  • Red text on black background reads 'hiya niamh hows it goin' with pink symbols changing from plus to star to X across three

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
  • 20080503080321274564136

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red text black background
  • three animation
  • plus star x symbols
  • dots replacing symbols

Objects

  • plus sign
  • star sign
  • X sign
  • dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Red text on black background reads 'hiya niamh hows it goin' with pink symbols changing from plus to star to X across three columns.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Text remains static while pink symbols change from plus to star to X across three columns, later replaced by dots.
  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined composition: three-column arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: three column animation

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static text with animated symbols

Visible Text

  • hiya
  • niamh
  • hows
  • it
  • goin

Wordwall

  • red text
  • black background
  • three
  • plus symbol
  • star symbol
  • X symbol
  • dots
  • pixelated font
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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
20080503080321274564136
Archive entry
20080503080321274564136.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 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#20080503080321274564136.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080503080321274564136.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016