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Pixelated white text on black background with animated cursor changes across repeated of names and emoticons

Pixelated white text on black background with animated cursor changes across repeated of names and emoticons. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • cursor changes between static star and animated hand

Animation Summary

  • Cursor changes between static star icon and animated hand cursor across specific in three of pixelated text

Composition

  • three
  • six per
  • centered alignment

Dense Caption

Black background displays three columns of pixelated white text. Each column contains six rows: first row shows 'ariss<3' with a small star icon, second row 'kisoo<3', third 'ani<3', fourth 'krikorr <3', fifth 'ilyguys<3', sixth 'ilguyss<3'. The cursor changes across observations: static in left column rows 1-2 and 5-6; animated star cursor in middle column row 4; animated hand cursor in right column rows 4-6. All text uses a fixed-width pixel font with consistent spacing between characters and lines.

Description

  • Pixelated white text on black background with animated cursor changes across repeated of names and emoticons

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
  • 20080124192521347134221
  • franksicons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art text animation
  • star hand cursor change
  • three white on black
  • fixed-width font text

Objects

  • star icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated white text on black background with animated cursor changes across repeated rows of names and emoticons.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Cursor changes between static star icon and animated hand cursor across specific rows in three columns of pixelated text.
  • quarantined wordwall: six rows per column
  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined composition: six rows per column
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined retrieval: three column white on black

Visible Text

  • ariss<3
  • kisoo<3
  • ani<3
  • krikorr <3
  • ilyguys<3
  • ilguyss<3

Wordwall

  • star icon
  • hand cursor
  • pixelated white text
  • black background
  • three
  • six per
  • fixed-width font
  • consistent spacing
  • animated cursor changes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080124192521347134221
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
680 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9c/9ca7e3675c32281a023845e26e95d29b414f22376edf68f5d3298dfb66f27af8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Archive ID
9ca7e3675c32281a
SHA-256
9ca7e3675c32281a023845e26e95d29b414f22376edf68f5d3298dfb66f27af8
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:16 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078179

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated white text on black background with animated cursor changes across repeated of names and emoticons

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 12:46 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,151 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,169, response 647

Review tags

  • cursor animation (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • hand cursor (object, 0.80)
  • star icon (object, 0.80)
  • fixed width text (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • cursor animation

Animation

  • cursor changes between static star and animated hand

Animation Summary

  • Cursor changes between static star icon and animated hand cursor across specific in three of pixelated text

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • three
  • six per
  • centered alignment

Dense Caption

Black background displays three columns of pixelated white text. Each column contains six rows: first row shows 'ariss<3' with a small star icon, second row 'kisoo<3', third 'ani<3', fourth 'krikorr <3', fifth 'ilyguys<3', sixth 'ilguyss<3'. The cursor changes across observations: static in left column rows 1-2 and 5-6; animated star cursor in middle column row 4; animated hand cursor in right column rows 4-6. All text uses a fixed-width pixel font with consistent spacing between characters and lines.

Description

  • Pixelated white text on black background with animated cursor changes across repeated of names and emoticons

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
  • 20080124192521347134221
  • franksicons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art text animation
  • star hand cursor change
  • three white on black
  • fixed-width font text

Objects

  • star icon
  • hand cursor

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated white text on black background with animated cursor changes across repeated rows of names and emoticons.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Cursor changes between static star icon and animated hand cursor across specific rows in three columns of pixelated text.
  • quarantined wordwall: six rows per column
  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined composition: six rows per column
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined retrieval: three column white on black

Style

  • pixel art
  • fixed-width text

Visible Text

  • ariss<3
  • kisoo<3
  • ani<3
  • krikorr <3
  • ilyguys<3
  • ilguyss<3

Wordwall

  • star icon
  • hand cursor
  • pixelated white text
  • black background
  • three
  • six per
  • fixed-width font
  • consistent spacing
  • animated cursor changes
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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
20080124192521347134221
Archive entry
20080124192521347134221.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 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#20080124192521347134221.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080124192521347134221.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016