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Pixelated text 'franks keep growing' in light blue on solid blue background with green pixel clusters below.

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Pixelated text 'franks keep growing' in light blue on solid blue background with green pixel clusters below.

Pixelated text 'franks keep growing' in light blue on solid blue background with green pixel clusters below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text centered horizontally
  • pixel clusters below text

Dense Caption

Solid bright blue background. Light blue pixelated text: top row reads 'franks', middle row reads 'keep', bottom row reads 'growing'. Below the text, multiple green pixel clusters resembling grass or foliage extend upward from the bottom edge. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'franks keep growing' in light blue on solid blue background with green pixel clusters below.

Identity Hypotheses

  • franks

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

Named Entities

  • franks

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • franks keep growing pixel art
  • blue background green text icon
  • pixelated grass text icon
  • light blue text bright blue background

Visible Text

  • franks
  • keep
  • growing

Visually Supported Entities

  • franks

Wordwall

  • light blue text
  • solid bright blue background
  • green pixel clusters
  • text: franks keep growing

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812221318211301107579
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 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 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
9f9bf5d3854a0f4b
SHA-256
9f9bf5d3854a0f4b8a6da068891bb96860f1fa90744f8db9101311495d7d537e
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Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 07:44 UTC
Run
1298
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000512

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July 23, 2026 at 19:18 UTC
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Pixelated text 'franks keep growing' in light blue on solid blue background with green pixel clusters below.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 14:56 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,355 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 554

Review tags

  • bright blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • digital art (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • pixel clusters (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • bright blue
  • light blue
  • green

Composition

  • text centered horizontally
  • pixel clusters below text

Dense Caption

Solid bright blue background. Light blue pixelated text: top row reads 'franks', middle row reads 'keep', bottom row reads 'growing'. Below the text, multiple green pixel clusters resembling grass or foliage extend upward from the bottom edge. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'franks keep growing' in light blue on solid blue background with green pixel clusters below.

Identity Hypotheses

  • franks

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Named Entities

  • franks

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • franks keep growing pixel art
  • blue background green text icon
  • pixelated grass text icon
  • light blue text bright blue background

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital art

Subjects

  • text
  • pixel clusters

Visible Text

  • franks
  • keep
  • growing

Visually Supported Entities

  • franks

Wordwall

  • light blue text
  • solid bright blue background
  • green pixel clusters
  • text: franks keep growing
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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
200812221318211301107579
Archive entry
200812221318211301107579.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#200812221318211301107579.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812221318211301107579.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016