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A static image with repeated text on a blue and white pixelated background.

A static image with repeated text on a blue and white pixelated background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four identical sections arranged in two
  • text centered within each section
  • like background pattern

Dense Caption

The image displays the phrase "When Your Near Me I Don't See So Clearly" in black, blocky, pixelated font across four identical sections arranged in two rows. Each section contains six lines of text: 'When Your', 'Near Me', 'I Don't', 'See So', 'Clearly'. The background consists of a grid of light blue and white square pixels with no additional visual elements or motion.

Description

  • A static image with repeated text on a blue and white pixelated background.

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
  • 200709081149391541154269

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • text phrase blue pixelated background
  • black blocky font four identical sections
  • light blue white black colors
  • repetitive layout six lines per section

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid-like background pattern
  • quarantined composition: four identical sections arranged in two rows

Visible Text

  • When Your Near Me I Don't See So Clearly

Wordwall

  • text phrase
  • blue pixelated background
  • black blocky font
  • four identical sections
  • six lines per section

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709081149391541154269
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a9/a9be9ef670c9e81e2d18bc53ad80ea4ef16f185ae441c013253faa2102e85419.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
a9be9ef670c9e81e
SHA-256
a9be9ef670c9e81e2d18bc53ad80ea4ef16f185ae441c013253faa2102e85419
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:23 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.137267

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A static image with repeated text on a blue and white pixelated background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 00:21 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,031 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 618

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive layout (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • four identical sections arranged in two
  • text centered within each section
  • like background pattern

Dense Caption

The image displays the phrase "When Your Near Me I Don't See So Clearly" in black, blocky, pixelated font across four identical sections arranged in two rows. Each section contains six lines of text: 'When Your', 'Near Me', 'I Don't', 'See So', 'Clearly'. The background consists of a grid of light blue and white square pixels with no additional visual elements or motion.

Description

  • A static image with repeated text on a blue and white pixelated background.

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
  • 200709081149391541154269

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • text phrase blue pixelated background
  • black blocky font four identical sections
  • light blue white black colors
  • repetitive layout six lines per section

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid-like background pattern
  • quarantined composition: four identical sections arranged in two rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • repetitive layout

Visible Text

  • When Your Near Me I Don't See So Clearly

Wordwall

  • text phrase
  • blue pixelated background
  • black blocky font
  • four identical sections
  • six lines per section
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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
200709081149391541154269
Archive entry
200709081149391541154269.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#200709081149391541154269.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709081149391541154269.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016