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Pixelated cyan text on black background with animated star and dot patterns changing across frames.

Pixelated cyan text on black background with animated star and dot patterns changing across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star appearance changes
  • dot pattern formation

Animation Summary

Stars and dots animate across frames; stars appear as white 5-pointed shapes with trailing dot patterns, dots form dashed outlines around text. Animation cycles through star/dot positions without altering text content or layout structure.

Composition

  • repeating
  • three by four

Dense Caption

Black background displays repeating grid of three columns by four rows. Each cell contains two lines: top line reads 'you must be blind' in cyan pixel font, bottom line reads 'Cause im Fantastic' in cyan pixel font. Stars and dots animate between cells; stars appear as white 5-pointed shapes with trailing dot patterns, dots form dashed outlines around text. Animation cycles through star/dot positions across frames without altering text content or layout structure.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on black background with animated star and dot patterns changing 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080316082800420317962

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pixel art 'you must be blind'
  • animated star dot pattern 'Cause im Fantastic'
  • repeating cyan text black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four rows
  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined wordwall: repeating grid
  • quarantined composition: three columns by four rows
  • quarantined composition: repeating grid
  • quarantined retrieval: repeating grid cyan text black background

Visible Text

  • you must be blind
  • Cause im Fantastic

Wordwall

  • cyan pixel font
  • black background
  • repeating
  • three
  • four
  • 'you must be blind' text
  • 'Cause im Fantastic' text
  • star animation
  • dot pattern animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080316082800420317962
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
681 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ac/accad5db7bd90f7344d06a243e3cc89063a939136c045bddb93021a02d064231.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC
Archive ID
accad5db7bd90f73
SHA-256
accad5db7bd90f7344d06a243e3cc89063a939136c045bddb93021a02d064231
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:25 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091441

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cyan text on black background with animated star and dot patterns changing across frames.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 07:30 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,001 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,164, response 626

Review tags

  • dots form dashed outlines (action, 0.80)
  • stars appear (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • stars appear
  • dots form dashed outlines

Animation

  • star appearance changes
  • dot pattern formation

Animation Summary

Stars and dots animate across frames; stars appear as white 5-pointed shapes with trailing dot patterns, dots form dashed outlines around text. Animation cycles through star/dot positions without altering text content or layout structure.

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • repeating
  • three by four

Dense Caption

Black background displays repeating grid of three columns by four rows. Each cell contains two lines: top line reads 'you must be blind' in cyan pixel font, bottom line reads 'Cause im Fantastic' in cyan pixel font. Stars and dots animate between cells; stars appear as white 5-pointed shapes with trailing dot patterns, dots form dashed outlines around text. Animation cycles through star/dot positions across frames without altering text content or layout structure.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on black background with animated star and dot patterns changing 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080316082800420317962

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pixel art 'you must be blind'
  • animated star dot pattern 'Cause im Fantastic'
  • repeating cyan text black background

Objects

  • stars
  • dots

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: repeating grid
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  • quarantined composition: repeating grid
  • quarantined retrieval: repeating grid cyan text black background

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
  • animated

Visible Text

  • you must be blind
  • Cause im Fantastic

Wordwall

  • cyan pixel font
  • black background
  • repeating
  • three
  • four
  • 'you must be blind' text
  • 'Cause im Fantastic' text
  • star animation
  • dot pattern animation
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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
20080316082800420317962
Archive entry
20080316082800420317962.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 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#20080316082800420317962.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080316082800420317962.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016