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Pixelated text repeats 'i can see u watching ME!' around a blue rectangular frame on black background.

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Pixelated text repeats 'i can see u watching ME!' around a blue rectangular frame on black background.

Pixelated text repeats 'i can see u watching ME!' around a blue rectangular frame on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image (no motion observed)

Composition

  • text arranged in four corners
  • central empty space framed by blue rectangle

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text repeating 'i can see i can see u watching u watching ME!'. Four instances of the phrase are positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. A bright blue rectangular frame outlines an empty center space; its vertical sides extend from top to bottom edges while horizontal bars connect them near top and bottom. The text is rendered in a retro 8-bit style with blocky characters. Blue frame has slight pixelation along edges.

Description

  • Pixelated text repeats 'i can see u watching ME!' around a blue rectangular frame on black background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071102145159171374895

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i can see u watching me
  • pixelated text frame
  • blue rectangle black background
  • retro 8-bit text

Visible Text

  • i can see i can see u watching u watching ME!

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • 'i can see i can see u watching u watching ME!' repeated four times
  • bright blue rectangular frame
  • black background
  • retro 8-bit style
  • four corners of image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071102145159171374895
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/76/76f75cbaac91a792b0b2906baee38983b76756a12a046a58d322299bacae83c1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
76f75cbaac91a792
SHA-256
76f75cbaac91a792b0b2906baee38983b76756a12a046a58d322299bacae83c1
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:02 UTC
Run
1047
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087654

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924653onnx/unsafe0.087654onnx/nsfw0.048847onnx/nsfl0.038808
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Pixelated text repeats 'i can see u watching ME!' around a blue rectangular frame on black background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 14:24 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,747 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 682

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • bright blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • intense (mood, 0.80)
  • paranoid (mood, 0.80)
  • blue rectangular frame (object, 0.80)
  • static image no motion observed (other, 0.80)
  • 8 bit retro (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image (no motion observed)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • bright blue

Composition

  • text arranged in four corners
  • central empty space framed by blue rectangle

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text repeating 'i can see i can see u watching u watching ME!'. Four instances of the phrase are positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. A bright blue rectangular frame outlines an empty center space; its vertical sides extend from top to bottom edges while horizontal bars connect them near top and bottom. The text is rendered in a retro 8-bit style with blocky characters. Blue frame has slight pixelation along edges.

Description

  • Pixelated text repeats 'i can see u watching ME!' around a blue rectangular frame on black background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071102145159171374895

Mood

  • paranoid
  • intense

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i can see u watching me
  • pixelated text frame
  • blue rectangle black background
  • retro 8-bit text

Objects

  • blue rectangular frame

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit retro

Visible Text

  • i can see i can see u watching u watching ME!

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • 'i can see i can see u watching u watching ME!' repeated four times
  • bright blue rectangular frame
  • black background
  • retro 8-bit style
  • four corners of image
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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
20071102145159171374895
Archive entry
20071102145159171374895.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#20071102145159171374895.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071102145159171374895.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016