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Pixelated text on a grayscale background with visible pixelation and low-resolution rendering.

Pixelated text on a grayscale background with visible pixelation and low-resolution rendering. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text centered horizontally
  • background patterned
  • no visible borders

Dense Caption

Grayscale image with pixelated white text reading "you know it's sad when u want to end it" over a dark, abstract patterned background. Text is rendered in blocky, retro digital font typical of early internet graphics. The background consists of irregularly shaped light and dark gray areas forming an indistinct, textured surface. All visible elements are static with no animation present.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a grayscale background with visible pixelation and low-resolution rendering.

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711081908221842513975

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text sad melancholic
  • grayscale retro digital text
  • you know it's sad when u want to end it
  • blocky font somber mood

Visible Text

  • you know
  • it's sad
  • when u
  • want to
  • end it

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • grayscale image
  • blocky font
  • abstract patterned background
  • retro digital style
  • text reads "you know it's sad when u want to end it"

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711081908221842513975
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9b/9b6a1a064d5eb2d708d83829e8a5d55b522b206998f657433e96d513adcbaaaa.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC
Archive ID
9b6a1a064d5eb2d7
SHA-256
9b6a1a064d5eb2d708d83829e8a5d55b522b206998f657433e96d513adcbaaaa
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:15 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.169899

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text on a grayscale background with visible pixelation and low-resolution rendering.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 16:22 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,628 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 637

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • somber (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • text centered horizontally
  • background patterned
  • no visible borders

Dense Caption

Grayscale image with pixelated white text reading "you know it's sad when u want to end it" over a dark, abstract patterned background. Text is rendered in blocky, retro digital font typical of early internet graphics. The background consists of irregularly shaped light and dark gray areas forming an indistinct, textured surface. All visible elements are static with no animation present.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a grayscale background with visible pixelation and low-resolution rendering.

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711081908221842513975

Mood

  • somber
  • melancholic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text sad melancholic
  • grayscale retro digital text
  • you know it's sad when u want to end it
  • blocky font somber mood

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • you know
  • it's sad
  • when u
  • want to
  • end it

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • grayscale image
  • blocky font
  • abstract patterned background
  • retro digital style
  • text reads "you know it's sad when u want to end it"
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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
200711081908221842513975
Archive entry
200711081908221842513975.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 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#200711081908221842513975.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711081908221842513975.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016