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Pixelated text on a patterned background with partial gray overlay.

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Pixelated text on a patterned background with partial gray overlay.

Pixelated text on a patterned background with partial gray overlay. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to Mid-2010…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text arranged in four lines
  • cross-shaped patterns scattered across background
  • solid gray rectangle in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

The image displays pixelated black text reading "Sadly when you wish" and "upon a shooting star nothing happens" arranged in four lines against a light teal background featuring small, scattered cross-shaped patterns in muted green and beige. A solid gray rectangular area occupies the bottom-right corner of the frame. The visual style is low-resolution digital art with blocky letterforms typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a patterned background with partial gray overlay.

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
  • 200709161512531336963425

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text shooting star
  • teal background cross patterns
  • gray rectangle corner
  • blocky typography melancholic quote

Visible Text

  • Sadly when you wish
  • upon a shooting star
  • nothing happens

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • light teal background
  • cross-shaped patterns
  • muted green
  • beige accents
  • gray rectangle
  • blocky letterforms

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709161512531336963425
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
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
Archive ID
8e7fda2123919a81
SHA-256
8e7fda2123919a817acc2582dabb413863848c9c6bea384a31713c54cdb3300b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:44 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075946

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text on a patterned background with partial gray overlay.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 02:44 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,496 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 643

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light teal (color, 0.80)
  • muted green (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • wistful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky typography (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • light teal
  • black
  • muted green
  • beige
  • gray

Composition

  • text arranged in four lines
  • cross-shaped patterns scattered across background
  • solid gray rectangle in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

The image displays pixelated black text reading "Sadly when you wish" and "upon a shooting star nothing happens" arranged in four lines against a light teal background featuring small, scattered cross-shaped patterns in muted green and beige. A solid gray rectangular area occupies the bottom-right corner of the frame. The visual style is low-resolution digital art with blocky letterforms typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a patterned background with partial gray overlay.

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
  • 200709161512531336963425

Mood

  • melancholic
  • wistful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text shooting star
  • teal background cross patterns
  • gray rectangle corner
  • blocky typography melancholic quote

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution digital graphics
  • blocky typography

Visible Text

  • Sadly when you wish
  • upon a shooting star
  • nothing happens

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • light teal background
  • cross-shaped patterns
  • muted green
  • beige accents
  • gray rectangle
  • blocky letterforms
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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
200709161512531336963425
Archive entry
200709161512531336963425.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#200709161512531336963425.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709161512531336963425.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016