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Yellow pixelated text on brown background with animated star cursor changes between white and gray.

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Yellow pixelated text on brown background with animated star cursor changes between white and gray.

Yellow pixelated text on brown background with animated star cursor changes between white and gray. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • cursor color change

Animation Summary

  • Star cursor alternates between white and gray while text remains static.

Composition

  • two
  • horizontal alignment
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Brown background with yellow pixelated text reading "YOUR" on top row and "RETARDED" on bottom row. Two identical text pairs are horizontally aligned. A small star cursor appears between the text pairs; in the first frame it is white, in the second frame it is gray. The text and background remain static across frames.

Description

  • Yellow pixelated text on brown background with animated star cursor changes between white and gray.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200708041901061503445857

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow text brown background
  • star cursor white gray
  • two identical text pairs
  • pixelated retarded
  • animated cursor color change
  • YOUR RETARDED
  • text-based animation
  • low-resolution animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected
  • quarantined composition: two rows

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • no metadata-derived claims supported by pixels

Visible Text

  • YOUR
  • RETARDED

Wordwall

  • brown background
  • yellow pixelated text
  • YOUR
  • RETARDED
  • two identical text pairs
  • star cursor
  • white cursor
  • gray cursor
  • static text
  • animated cursor

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708041901061503445857
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8a/8a994be0bba471bc718730568b79cd239ed34cdbbf1a0feee3d86f70a1d093e1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
8a994be0bba471bc
SHA-256
8a994be0bba471bc718730568b79cd239ed34cdbbf1a0feee3d86f70a1d093e1
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:40 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086780

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.927926onnx/unsafe0.086780onnx/nsfw0.052264onnx/nsfl0.034516
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Yellow pixelated text on brown background with animated star cursor changes between white and gray.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:06 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,633 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 654

Review tags

  • cursor changes color (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • cursor color change (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • star cursor (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • cursor changes color

Animation

  • cursor color change

Animation Summary

  • Star cursor alternates between white and gray while text remains static.

Colors

  • brown
  • yellow
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • two
  • horizontal alignment
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Brown background with yellow pixelated text reading "YOUR" on top row and "RETARDED" on bottom row. Two identical text pairs are horizontally aligned. A small star cursor appears between the text pairs; in the first frame it is white, in the second frame it is gray. The text and background remain static across frames.

Description

  • Yellow pixelated text on brown background with animated star cursor changes between white and gray.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200708041901061503445857

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow text brown background
  • star cursor white gray
  • two identical text pairs
  • pixelated retarded
  • animated cursor color change
  • YOUR RETARDED
  • text-based animation
  • low-resolution animation

Objects

  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected
  • quarantined composition: two rows

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • no metadata-derived claims supported by pixels

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • star cursor

Visible Text

  • YOUR
  • RETARDED

Wordwall

  • brown background
  • yellow pixelated text
  • YOUR
  • RETARDED
  • two identical text pairs
  • star cursor
  • white cursor
  • gray cursor
  • static text
  • animated cursor
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:25 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200708041901061503445857
Archive entry
200708041901061503445857.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#200708041901061503445857.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708041901061503445857.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016