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Pixelated text with repeated phrases and names on black background, showing partial white overlays in some sections

Pixelated text with repeated phrases and names on black background, showing partial white overlays in some sections. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Composition

  • horizontal
  • repeated segments
  • layered text overlays

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated white text arranged in rows. Top row repeats 'lucky for u' across three segments; middle section shows 'ur mirror', 'cant tlk like', 'simon', 'cowell'. Bottom portion mirrors top layout with identical phrases and names. White rectangular overlays partially obscure some text sections, creating a layered effect where certain words appear brighter or more prominent in specific areas.

Description

  • Pixelated text with repeated phrases and names on black background, showing partial white overlays in some sections

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

Named Entities

  • simon cowell

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • lucky for u simon cowell
  • ur mirror cant tlk like
  • text black white
  • pixelated text layers

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated text grid with repeated phrases and names on black background, showing partial white overlays in some sections.
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows
  • quarantined retrieval: text grid black white

Visible Text

  • lucky for u
  • ur mirror
  • cant tlk like
  • simon
  • cowell

Visually Supported Entities

  • simon cowell

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • repeated phrases
  • text layers
  • simon cowell
  • lucky for u
  • ur mirror
  • cant tlk like

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801191518391887134263
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
864 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a9/a9e71e738afc81b7f019b7c95bc6a583fa6f079a6ead85d9282845b1d94005d0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Archive ID
a9e71e738afc81b7
SHA-256
a9e71e738afc81b7f019b7c95bc6a583fa6f079a6ead85d9282845b1d94005d0
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.084637

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.923939onnx/unsafe0.084637onnx/nsfw0.043908onnx/nsfl0.040729
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text with repeated phrases and names on black background, showing partial white overlays in some sections

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 11:32 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
3,574 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,168, response 598

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • textual (mood, 0.80)
  • static image with no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • names (subject, 0.80)
  • phrases (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • horizontal
  • repeated segments
  • layered text overlays

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated white text arranged in rows. Top row repeats 'lucky for u' across three segments; middle section shows 'ur mirror', 'cant tlk like', 'simon', 'cowell'. Bottom portion mirrors top layout with identical phrases and names. White rectangular overlays partially obscure some text sections, creating a layered effect where certain words appear brighter or more prominent in specific areas.

Description

  • Pixelated text with repeated phrases and names on black background, showing partial white overlays in some sections

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

Mood

  • neutral
  • textual

Named Entities

  • simon cowell

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • lucky for u simon cowell
  • ur mirror cant tlk like
  • text black white
  • pixelated text layers

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated text grid with repeated phrases and names on black background, showing partial white overlays in some sections.
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows
  • quarantined retrieval: text grid black white

Style

  • pixelated
  • monochrome

Subjects

  • text
  • phrases
  • names

Visible Text

  • lucky for u
  • ur mirror
  • cant tlk like
  • simon
  • cowell

Visually Supported Entities

  • simon cowell

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • repeated phrases
  • text layers
  • simon cowell
  • lucky for u
  • ur mirror
  • cant tlk like
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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200801191518391887134263
Archive entry
200801191518391887134263.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#200801191518391887134263.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801191518391887134263.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016