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A split-screen digital image with red and black backgrounds displaying repeated text and star symbols.

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A split-screen digital image with red and black backgrounds displaying repeated text and star symbols.

A split-screen digital image with red and black backgrounds displaying repeated text and star symbols. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • The bottom-left quadrant changes from a black background with a red star symbol to a dark red background with white text.
  • The top-left quadrant changes from a red background with a black star symbol to a red background with white text.

Animation Summary

The image shows two states of an animation: one with red and black backgrounds featuring star symbols, and another with dark red backgrounds and white text without star symbols.

Composition

  • split-screen
  • four quadrants

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left and bottom-right quadrants have a red background with white pixelated text reading "Get high and you lose me its that simple" and a black star symbol. Top-right and bottom-left quadrants have a dark red background with white pixelated text reading "Get high and you lose me its that simple" without star symbols. The text and star symbols are consistent across all quadrants. The image has a pixelated, retro digital style.

Description

  • A split-screen digital image with red and black backgrounds displaying repeated text and star symbols.

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 Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background white text star
  • dark red background white text
  • split-screen pixelated text
  • four quadrants star symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image appears to be a static representation of an animation sequence with two distinct states.

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

Visible Text

  • Get high and you lose me its that simple

Wordwall

  • red background
  • dark red background
  • white pixelated text
  • black star symbol
  • red star symbol
  • split-screen layout
  • four quadrants
  • repeated text
  • pixelated style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902161058121771847906
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
995 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/80/8041bc764033ccfee4a7ab663dbed3662996c71eca660ad326ae914f5c5e2439.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Archive ID
8041bc764033ccfe
SHA-256
8041bc764033ccfee4a7ab663dbed3662996c71eca660ad326ae914f5c5e2439
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:22 UTC
Run
1095
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.092263

OpenAI category scores

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A split-screen digital image with red and black backgrounds displaying repeated text and star symbols.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 23:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,321 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 821

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark red (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • star symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • The bottom-left quadrant changes from a black background with a red star symbol to a dark red background with white text.
  • The top-left quadrant changes from a red background with a black star symbol to a red background with white text.

Animation Summary

The image shows two states of an animation: one with red and black backgrounds featuring star symbols, and another with dark red backgrounds and white text without star symbols.

Colors

  • red
  • dark red
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • split-screen
  • four quadrants

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left and bottom-right quadrants have a red background with white pixelated text reading "Get high and you lose me its that simple" and a black star symbol. Top-right and bottom-left quadrants have a dark red background with white pixelated text reading "Get high and you lose me its that simple" without star symbols. The text and star symbols are consistent across all quadrants. The image has a pixelated, retro digital style.

Description

  • A split-screen digital image with red and black backgrounds displaying repeated text and star symbols.

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 Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background white text star
  • dark red background white text
  • split-screen pixelated text
  • four quadrants star symbols

Objects

  • star symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image appears to be a static representation of an animation sequence with two distinct states.

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • star symbols

Visible Text

  • Get high and you lose me its that simple

Wordwall

  • red background
  • dark red background
  • white pixelated text
  • black star symbol
  • red star symbol
  • split-screen layout
  • four quadrants
  • repeated text
  • pixelated style
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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
200902161058121771847906
Archive entry
200902161058121771847906.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 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#200902161058121771847906.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902161058121771847906.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016