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Blue background with light blue text reading "I go with my own flow" and white star-shaped decorations in a

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Blue background with light blue text reading "I go with my own flow" and white star-shaped decorations in a

Blue background with light blue text reading "I go with my own flow" and white star-shaped decorations in a. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Mood

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; consistent text and star decorations across all

Composition

  • six
  • text-centered
  • star decorations

Dense Caption

The image displays a blue background with light blue text arranged in a grid of six panels. Each panel contains the text "I go with my own flow" in a pixelated font, with the word "flow" stylized as "~flow~" using tilde characters. White star-shaped decorations appear in the corners of each panel, some with dotted lines extending from them. The text and stars are consistent across all six panels, with no visible animation changes between panels.

Description

  • Blue background with light blue text reading "I go with my own flow" and white star-shaped decorations in a

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200708010802131076755329
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200708010802131076755329

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background light blue text
  • I go with my own flow
  • star decorations
  • pixelated font
  • tilde characters
  • six
  • dotted lines

Objects

  • star

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with light blue text reading "I go with my own flow" and white star-shaped decorations in a grid layout.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation changes; consistent text and star decorations across all panels.
  • quarantined wordwall: six panels
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: six panels
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: six panels
  • quarantined retrieval: grid layout

Visible Text

  • I go with my own flow

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • light blue text
  • pixelated font
  • white star decorations
  • tilde characters
  • six
  • text: I go with my own flow
  • stylized flow
  • dotted lines

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708010802131076755329
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8f/8f3b4683ea0d819e0bafd510b803ee1f31c1e06be48c47113c95cbb8b290dc41.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
8f3b4683ea0d819e
SHA-256
8f3b4683ea0d819e0bafd510b803ee1f31c1e06be48c47113c95cbb8b290dc41
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:49 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083161

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue background with light blue text reading "I go with my own flow" and white star-shaped decorations in a

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 17:11 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,876 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,168, response 807

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • confident (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dotted line (object, 0.80)
  • star (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; consistent text and star decorations across all

Colors

  • blue
  • light blue
  • white

Composition

  • six
  • text-centered
  • star decorations

Dense Caption

The image displays a blue background with light blue text arranged in a grid of six panels. Each panel contains the text "I go with my own flow" in a pixelated font, with the word "flow" stylized as "~flow~" using tilde characters. White star-shaped decorations appear in the corners of each panel, some with dotted lines extending from them. The text and stars are consistent across all six panels, with no visible animation changes between panels.

Description

  • Blue background with light blue text reading "I go with my own flow" and white star-shaped decorations in a

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200708010802131076755329
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200708010802131076755329

Mood

  • playful
  • confident

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background light blue text
  • I go with my own flow
  • star decorations
  • pixelated font
  • tilde characters
  • six
  • dotted lines

Objects

  • star
  • dotted line

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with light blue text reading "I go with my own flow" and white star-shaped decorations in a grid layout.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation changes; consistent text and star decorations across all panels.
  • quarantined wordwall: six panels
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: six panels
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: six panels
  • quarantined retrieval: grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • I go with my own flow

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • light blue text
  • pixelated font
  • white star decorations
  • tilde characters
  • six
  • text: I go with my own flow
  • stylized flow
  • dotted lines
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:01 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)
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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
200708010802131076755329
Archive entry
200708010802131076755329.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#200708010802131076755329.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708010802131076755329.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016