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Pixelated cyan text on black background with red outline around one letter, showing animated flicker effect.

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Pixelated cyan text on black background with red outline around one letter, showing animated flicker effect.

Pixelated cyan text on black background with red outline around one letter, showing animated flicker effect. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • flickering effect on red-outlined 'd' character

Animation Summary

  • Flickering animation on red-outlined 'd' character in cyan text.

Composition

  • centered text lines
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated cyan text in multiple lines: 'apple a do apple a do', 'aps the doaps the doo', 'ay but, if ay but, if', 'doctors cutdoctors cute', 'ew the frui ew the frui'. One letter 'd' has red outline. Animation shows flickering effect on this outlined character.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on black background with red outline around one letter, showing animated flicker effect.

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
  • 200709211830481652752841

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pixelated text
  • red outline flicker
  • text-based animation

Visible Text

  • apple a do apple a do
  • aps the doaps the doo
  • ay but, if ay but, if
  • doctors cutdoctors cute
  • ew the frui ew the frui

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black background
  • red outline
  • flickering animation
  • pixelated font
  • multiple lines of text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709211830481652752841
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
353 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8a/8af0159f2b970768ff1f33aac9245abca7cb6f4635a93588e0b5d2f4a43f578a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
Archive ID
8af0159f2b970768
SHA-256
8af0159f2b970768ff1f33aac9245abca7cb6f4635a93588e0b5d2f4a43f578a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.082171

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cyan text on black background with red outline around one letter, showing animated flicker effect.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 03:34 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,321 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 663

Review tags

  • flickering animation on d character (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • flickering effect on red outlined d character (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • flickering animation on 'd' character

Animation

  • flickering effect on red-outlined 'd' character

Animation Summary

  • Flickering animation on red-outlined 'd' character in cyan text.

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • red

Composition

  • centered text lines
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated cyan text in multiple lines: 'apple a do apple a do', 'aps the doaps the doo', 'ay but, if ay but, if', 'doctors cutdoctors cute', 'ew the frui ew the frui'. One letter 'd' has red outline. Animation shows flickering effect on this outlined character.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on black background with red outline around one letter, showing animated flicker effect.

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
  • 200709211830481652752841

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pixelated text
  • red outline flicker
  • text-based animation

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • apple a do apple a do
  • aps the doaps the doo
  • ay but, if ay but, if
  • doctors cutdoctors cute
  • ew the frui ew the frui

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black background
  • red outline
  • flickering animation
  • pixelated font
  • multiple lines of 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
200709211830481652752841
Archive entry
200709211830481652752841.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 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#200709211830481652752841.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709211830481652752841.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016