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Yellow pixelated text 'once upon a time...' repeated across three on cyan background with white star and dot animations

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Yellow pixelated text 'once upon a time...' repeated across three on cyan background with white star and dot animations

Yellow pixelated text 'once upon a time...' repeated across three on cyan background with white star and dot animations. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star animations change position
  • dot animations shift location

Animation Summary

  • White star and dot animations shift position across frames while text remains static.

Composition

  • three of text
  • centered layout
  • repeated pattern

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays yellow pixelated text reading 'once upon a time...' in three horizontal rows. Each row contains identical text layout: 'once' top, 'upon' middle, 'a' bottom, followed by 'time...'. White animated elements include small stars (one per row) and scattered dots that shift position across frames. Text remains static while animations change.

Description

  • Yellow pixelated text 'once upon a time...' repeated across three on cyan background with white star and dot animations

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
  • 200801121603521935700532

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow pixelated once upon a time cyan background
  • once upon a time yellow text cyan animation
  • pixel art once upon a time white stars dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Yellow pixelated text 'once upon a time...' repeated across three rows on cyan background with white star and dot animations.
  • quarantined composition: three rows of text

Visible Text

  • once upon a time...

Wordwall

  • yellow pixelated text
  • 'once upon a time...'
  • cyan background
  • white star animation
  • white dot animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801121603521935700532
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/74/744f81ff880954f95238018f65d8791cf283d1fd4ed332474855f732c0a66112.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC
Archive ID
744f81ff880954f9
SHA-256
744f81ff880954f95238018f65d8791cf283d1fd4ed332474855f732c0a66112
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:58 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097785

OpenAI category scores

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Yellow pixelated text 'once upon a time...' repeated across three on cyan background with white star and dot animations

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 09:54 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,999 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 695

Review tags

  • dots shift position (action, 0.80)
  • stars appear (action, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • stars appear
  • dots shift position

Animation

  • star animations change position
  • dot animations shift location

Animation Summary

  • White star and dot animations shift position across frames while text remains static.

Colors

  • cyan
  • yellow
  • white

Composition

  • three of text
  • centered layout
  • repeated pattern

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays yellow pixelated text reading 'once upon a time...' in three horizontal rows. Each row contains identical text layout: 'once' top, 'upon' middle, 'a' bottom, followed by 'time...'. White animated elements include small stars (one per row) and scattered dots that shift position across frames. Text remains static while animations change.

Description

  • Yellow pixelated text 'once upon a time...' repeated across three on cyan background with white star and dot animations

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
  • 200801121603521935700532

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow pixelated once upon a time cyan background
  • once upon a time yellow text cyan animation
  • pixel art once upon a time white stars dots

Objects

  • text
  • stars
  • dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Yellow pixelated text 'once upon a time...' repeated across three rows on cyan background with white star and dot animations.
  • quarantined composition: three rows of text

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • once upon a time...

Wordwall

  • yellow pixelated text
  • 'once upon a time...'
  • cyan background
  • white star animation
  • white dot animation
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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
200801121603521935700532
Archive entry
200801121603521935700532.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 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#200801121603521935700532.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801121603521935700532.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016