Permanent icon record
Pixelated pink text on black background reads "HOW COME WE ALWAYS WANT WHO WE CAN'T HAVE" with small white symbols changing across frames.
Pixelated pink text on black background reads "HOW COME WE ALWAYS WANT WHO WE CAN'T HAVE" with small white symbols changing across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…
Source & archive date
- Added to archive
- July 12, 2026
Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
- Source title
- 20071119190516206037335
- Era
- Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
- Observed
- July 12, 2026 at 14:58 UTC
Technical archive details
- Format
- GIF
- Dimensions
- 48×48 pixels
- File size
- 565 bytes
- Motion
- Animated (9 frames)
- Added to archive
- July 12, 2026
- Relative path
- icons/81/81fc139ad9a670c0d00026934b62c8efc8e6f5cd236572b82f89edc882169557.gif
- Media type
- image/gif
- Scanner metadata
- v1
- Animation inspected
- July 12, 2026 at 14:58 UTC
- Archive ID
- 81fc139ad9a670c0
- SHA-256
- 81fc139ad9a670c0d00026934b62c8efc8e6f5cd236572b82f89edc882169557
Content-safety assessments (3)
- Assessed
- July 28, 2026 at 20:30 UTC
- Run
- 1225
- Input
- image+text
- Preprocessing
- contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
- Overall label
- not-flagged
- Overall score
- 0.000465
OpenAI category scores
- Assessed
- July 25, 2026 at 08:26 UTC
- Run
- 1187
- Input
- image+text
- Preprocessing
- contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
- Overall label
- not-flagged
- Overall score
- 0.000534
OpenAI category scores
- Assessed
- July 23, 2026 at 17:26 UTC
- Run
- 1103
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
- Overall label
- nsfw
- Overall score
- 0.780059
OpenAI category scores
Enrichment records (1)
Pixelated pink text on black background reads "HOW COME WE ALWAYS WANT WHO WE CAN'T HAVE" with small white symbols changing across frames.
- Reviewed
- July 28, 2026 at 20:24 UTC
- Run
- 53
- Version
- v5
- Elapsed
- 8,270 ms
- Tokens
- prompt 2,112, response 738
Review tags
- black (color, 0.80)
- pink (color, 0.80)
- white (color, 0.80)
- melancholic (mood, 0.80)
- nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
- pixelated (style, 0.80)
- text based (style, 0.80)
Animation
- symbol changes across frames: plus → asterisk → cross → dots → small white dots below left
Animation Summary
Text remains static while white symbols change sequentially across frames: plus sign → asterisk → cross symbol → dots → small white dots below left
Colors
- black
- pink
- white
Composition
- three of text
- repeated
- symbols change per frame
Dense Caption
Black background displays repeated pixelated pink uppercase text: "HOW COME WE ALWAYS WANT WHO WE CAN'T HAVE". Three columns of identical text appear in a grid layout. White symbols change sequentially: first frame shows plus sign, second frame shows asterisk, third frame shows cross symbol; fourth frame replaces the rightmost column's symbol with dots, fifth frame adds small white dots below the leftmost column, sixth frame has no additional symbols.
Description
- Pixelated pink text on black background reads "HOW COME WE ALWAYS WANT WHO WE CAN'T HAVE" with small white symbols changing across frames.
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
- 20071119190516206037335
Mood
- melancholic
- nostalgic
Non Redundant Search Phrases
- pink text black background
- how come we always want who we can't have
- text-based animation with changing symbols
- pixelated
Preprocessing Notes
- quarantined animationSummary: Text remains static while white symbols change sequentially across frames: plus sign → asterisk → cross symbol → dots → small white dots below left column.
- quarantined wordwall: small white dots below left column
- quarantined style: grid layout
- quarantined composition: repeated rows
- quarantined composition: three columns of text
- quarantined animation: symbol changes across frames: plus → asterisk → cross → dots → small white dots below left column
- quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid layout
Style
- pixelated
- text-based
Visible Text
- HOW COME WE ALWAYS WANT WHO WE CAN'T HAVE
Wordwall
- text is pink
- background is black
- text reads HOW COME WE ALWAYS WANT WHO WE CAN'T HAVE
- symbols change across frames
- plus sign appears in first frame
- asterisk appears in second frame
- cross symbol appears in third frame
- dots appear in fourth frame
- small white dots below left
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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
- 20071119190516206037335
- Archive entry
- 20071119190516206037335.gif
- Observed
- July 12, 2026 at 14:58 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#20071119190516206037335.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071119190516206037335.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016