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Blue background with repeated white pixelated text 'There's a reason it's called a Crush' and scattered cyan dots.

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Blue background with repeated white pixelated text 'There's a reason it's called a Crush' and scattered cyan dots.

Blue background with repeated white pixelated text 'There's a reason it's called a Crush' and scattered cyan dots. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeated text
  • scattered cyan dots
  • gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

Blue background with scattered cyan dots. Repeated white pixelated text 'There's a reason it's called a Crush' appears in a grid layout across the image. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics. The rightmost column of the grid is partially obscured by a solid gray rectangle. The text repeats identically in all visible cells of the grid.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated white pixelated text 'There's a reason it's called a Crush' and scattered cyan dots.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background cyan dots white text
  • repeated text crush
  • pixelated crush text
  • gray rectangle cyan dots
  • low-resolution crush text
  • crush text
  • blue crush text
  • cyan dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: text grid
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: repeated text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: cyan dots grid
  • quarantined retrieval: crush text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated text grid crush

Visible Text

  • There's a reason it's called a Crush

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • cyan dots
  • white pixelated text
  • repeated text
  • gray rectangle
  • low-resolution graphics
  • blocky font
  • scattered dots
  • text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812231227091864620988
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/77/77c9baefd019ac433867f5937cced1e80810929e43fe7a34fc7917c3ca361978.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
77c9baefd019ac43
SHA-256
77c9baefd019ac433867f5937cced1e80810929e43fe7a34fc7917c3ca361978
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:03 UTC
Run
1051
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.104130

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with repeated white pixelated text 'There's a reason it's called a Crush' and scattered cyan dots.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 15:05 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,557 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,122, response 668

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • blue
  • cyan
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • repeated text
  • scattered cyan dots
  • gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

Blue background with scattered cyan dots. Repeated white pixelated text 'There's a reason it's called a Crush' appears in a grid layout across the image. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics. The rightmost column of the grid is partially obscured by a solid gray rectangle. The text repeats identically in all visible cells of the grid.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated white pixelated text 'There's a reason it's called a Crush' and scattered cyan dots.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background cyan dots white text
  • repeated text crush
  • pixelated crush text
  • gray rectangle cyan dots
  • low-resolution crush text
  • crush text
  • blue crush text
  • cyan dots

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: repeated text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: cyan dots grid
  • quarantined retrieval: crush text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated text grid crush

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • There's a reason it's called a Crush

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • cyan dots
  • white pixelated text
  • repeated text
  • gray rectangle
  • low-resolution graphics
  • blocky font
  • scattered dots
  • text
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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
200812231227091864620988
Archive entry
200812231227091864620988.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#200812231227091864620988.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812231227091864620988.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016