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Pixelated text and a glowing halo graphic on white background, with partial words 'somewhere', 'there's a', and 'stolen halo' visible.

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Pixelated text and a glowing halo graphic on white background, with partial words 'somewhere', 'there's a', and 'stolen halo' visible.

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Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image with pixelated text and glowing halo graphic.

Composition

  • text top/middle/bottom alignment
  • central halo placement

Dense Caption

The image contains pixelated black-and-white text at the top reading 'somewhere', middle text reading 'there's a', and bottom text reading 'stolen halo'. A glowing orange-yellow circular halo graphic is centered between the text blocks. The background is solid white. All elements are rendered in low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering on the halo edges. Text uses blocky, monospaced font typical of early digital interfaces. No additional objects or subjects are present.

Description

  • Pixelated text and a glowing halo graphic on white background, with partial words 'somewhere', 'there's a', and 'stolen halo' visible.

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
  • 20080828045555165811730

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • stolen halo
  • glowing orange-yellow halo
  • pixelated text 'somewhere'
  • pixelated text 'there's a'
  • pixelated text 'stolen halo'

Visible Text

  • somewhere
  • there's a
  • stolen halo

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • glowing orange-yellow halo
  • white background
  • blocky monospaced font
  • dithered edges

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080828045555165811730
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/aa/aa36b77e3271f2af83726c256920b38181751e4e04edc82875ab7bfa6eb54300.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
aa36b77e3271f2af
SHA-256
aa36b77e3271f2af83726c256920b38181751e4e04edc82875ab7bfa6eb54300
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 22:02 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000016

OpenAI category scores

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Qwen scheduling evidence

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EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
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
0.080145

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text and a glowing halo graphic on white background, with partial words 'somewhere', 'there's a', and 'stolen halo' visible.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 21:54 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,876 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 603

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • halo graphic (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image with pixelated text and glowing halo graphic.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • orange
  • yellow

Composition

  • text top/middle/bottom alignment
  • central halo placement

Dense Caption

The image contains pixelated black-and-white text at the top reading 'somewhere', middle text reading 'there's a', and bottom text reading 'stolen halo'. A glowing orange-yellow circular halo graphic is centered between the text blocks. The background is solid white. All elements are rendered in low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering on the halo edges. Text uses blocky, monospaced font typical of early digital interfaces. No additional objects or subjects are present.

Description

  • Pixelated text and a glowing halo graphic on white background, with partial words 'somewhere', 'there's a', and 'stolen halo' visible.

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
  • 20080828045555165811730

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • stolen halo
  • glowing orange-yellow halo
  • pixelated text 'somewhere'
  • pixelated text 'there's a'
  • pixelated text 'stolen halo'

Objects

  • halo graphic

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution digital graphics

Visible Text

  • somewhere
  • there's a
  • stolen halo

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • glowing orange-yellow halo
  • white background
  • blocky monospaced font
  • dithered edges
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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
20080828045555165811730
Archive entry
20080828045555165811730.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#20080828045555165811730.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080828045555165811730.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016