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Pixelated cyan text on black circular shapes against white background, with visible animation changes across frames.

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Pixelated cyan text on black circular shapes against white background, with visible animation changes across frames.

Pixelated cyan text on black circular shapes against white background, with visible animation changes across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • character changes: 'othing' → 'athing'
  • character changes: 'aps' → 'ap'

Animation Summary

Text animation shows character shifts: 'othing' becomes 'athing', and 'aps' changes to 'ap'. Black circles remain static while text animates.

Composition

  • text overlaid on black circles
  • circular shapes scattered across frame
  • text arranged in horizontal lines

Dense Caption

The image shows a sequence of pixelated cyan text reading "I got me some thing aps 2day" over black circular shapes on a white background. The text appears to animate through multiple states: the word "thing" shifts from "othing" to "athing" with partial character changes, and "aps" transitions between "ap" and "aps." Black circles are positioned behind and around the text in various arrangements across frames. Pixelation is consistent throughout all visible elements.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on black circular shapes against white background, with visible animation changes across frames.

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
  • 20080211132216772263320

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pixelated text black circles
  • text animation character shifts
  • low-resolution animated text white background

Visible Text

  • I got me some
  • othing aps 2day
  • athing aps 2day
  • some
  • 2day

Wordwall

  • cyan pixelated text
  • black circular shapes
  • white background
  • text animation
  • character shifts
  • partial word changes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080211132216772263320
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a5/a5cfc8b32c1fe98c4f735f4dfbbe1448e17639ffd4eb751d7e9b169f53f3acef.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC
Archive ID
a5cfc8b32c1fe98c
SHA-256
a5cfc8b32c1fe98c4f735f4dfbbe1448e17639ffd4eb751d7e9b169f53f3acef
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:21 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.163914

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated cyan text on black circular shapes against white background, with visible animation changes across frames.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 20:23 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,507 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 689

Review tags

  • character shifts (action, 0.80)
  • text animation (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • black circular shapes (object, 0.80)
  • character changes aps ap (other, 0.80)
  • character changes othing athing (other, 0.80)
  • animated text (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • text animation
  • character shifts

Animation

  • character changes: 'othing' → 'athing'
  • character changes: 'aps' → 'ap'

Animation Summary

Text animation shows character shifts: 'othing' becomes 'athing', and 'aps' changes to 'ap'. Black circles remain static while text animates.

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • text overlaid on black circles
  • circular shapes scattered across frame
  • text arranged in horizontal lines

Dense Caption

The image shows a sequence of pixelated cyan text reading "I got me some thing aps 2day" over black circular shapes on a white background. The text appears to animate through multiple states: the word "thing" shifts from "othing" to "athing" with partial character changes, and "aps" transitions between "ap" and "aps." Black circles are positioned behind and around the text in various arrangements across frames. Pixelation is consistent throughout all visible elements.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on black circular shapes against white background, with visible animation changes across frames.

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
  • 20080211132216772263320

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pixelated text black circles
  • text animation character shifts
  • low-resolution animated text white background

Objects

  • black circular shapes

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • animated text

Visible Text

  • I got me some
  • othing aps 2day
  • athing aps 2day
  • some
  • 2day

Wordwall

  • cyan pixelated text
  • black circular shapes
  • white background
  • text animation
  • character shifts
  • partial word 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
20080211132216772263320
Archive entry
20080211132216772263320.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 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#20080211132216772263320.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080211132216772263320.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016