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Static image with repeated text on black background, blue pixel noise scattered across the scene.

Static image with repeated text on black background, blue pixel noise scattered across the scene. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three identical vertical side-by-side
  • repeated text layout
  • large gray rectangle in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

The image displays a static composition of three identical vertical panels side-by-side. Each panel contains white pixelated text reading "i liked him until i found out he was a jerk" in lowercase letters with no punctuation. The background is solid black with scattered blue digital noise dots throughout all panels. A large gray rectangular area occupies the bottom-right corner, partially overlapping the rightmost panel's lower section.

Description

  • Static image with repeated text on black background, blue pixel noise scattered across the scene.

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
  • 200803191432201296946027

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i liked him until i found out he was a jerk
  • repeated text black background blue noise gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three identical vertical panels side-by-side

Visible Text

  • i liked him until i found out he was a jerk

Wordwall

  • repeated text
  • black background
  • blue pixel noise
  • gray rectangle
  • white lowercase letters

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803191432201296946027
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/80/80737f3cefb23f3341ebec7277d4824b5f45d922e0e4208cf7ceb6bc055fb8c2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 UTC
Archive ID
80737f3cefb23f33
SHA-256
80737f3cefb23f3341ebec7277d4824b5f45d922e0e4208cf7ceb6bc055fb8c2
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.088450

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Static image with repeated text on black background, blue pixel noise scattered across the scene.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 08:19 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,562 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,166, response 610

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • dismissive (mood, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • three identical vertical side-by-side
  • repeated text layout
  • large gray rectangle in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

The image displays a static composition of three identical vertical panels side-by-side. Each panel contains white pixelated text reading "i liked him until i found out he was a jerk" in lowercase letters with no punctuation. The background is solid black with scattered blue digital noise dots throughout all panels. A large gray rectangular area occupies the bottom-right corner, partially overlapping the rightmost panel's lower section.

Description

  • Static image with repeated text on black background, blue pixel noise scattered across the scene.

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
  • 200803191432201296946027

Mood

  • dismissive
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i liked him until i found out he was a jerk
  • repeated text black background blue noise gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three identical vertical panels side-by-side

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • i liked him until i found out he was a jerk

Wordwall

  • repeated text
  • black background
  • blue pixel noise
  • gray rectangle
  • white lowercase letters
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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
200803191432201296946027
Archive entry
200803191432201296946027.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 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#200803191432201296946027.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803191432201296946027.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016