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Pixelated text on a green and blue background with repeated phrases about being late.

Pixelated text on a green and blue background with repeated phrases about being late. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four of centered text
  • repeated phrases across two

Dense Caption

Green and light blue pixelated background. Black blocky text in four rows: top row reads "I am not" twice, second row reads "always late always late", third row reads "sometimes sometimes", fourth row reads "I just don't show up" twice. Text is rendered with a retro digital font typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a green and blue background with repeated phrases about being late.

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
  • 200801121518261489627323

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text green background
  • I am not always late sometimes I just don't show up
  • retro digital font humor
  • green blue pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four rows of text
  • quarantined composition: repeated phrases across two columns
  • quarantined composition: four rows of centered text

Visible Text

  • I am not
  • always late
  • sometimes
  • I just don't show up

Wordwall

  • green background
  • light blue background
  • black text
  • pixelated font
  • four of text
  • repeated phrases
  • retro digital style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801121518261489627323
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
853 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ac/acfce798df75698f423f50e79f3c9be24141f7077942ae4412ccf77576f803ac.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC
Archive ID
acfce798df75698f
SHA-256
acfce798df75698f423f50e79f3c9be24141f7077942ae4412ccf77576f803ac
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
0.189534

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Pixelated text on a green and blue background with repeated phrases about being late.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 09:52 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,953 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 618

Review tags

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  • light blue (color, 0.80)
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  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
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Colors

  • green
  • light blue
  • black

Composition

  • four of centered text
  • repeated phrases across two

Dense Caption

Green and light blue pixelated background. Black blocky text in four rows: top row reads "I am not" twice, second row reads "always late always late", third row reads "sometimes sometimes", fourth row reads "I just don't show up" twice. Text is rendered with a retro digital font typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a green and blue background with repeated phrases about being late.

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
  • 200801121518261489627323

Mood

  • humorous
  • apologetic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text green background
  • I am not always late sometimes I just don't show up
  • retro digital font humor
  • green blue pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four rows of text
  • quarantined composition: repeated phrases across two columns
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Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • I am not
  • always late
  • sometimes
  • I just don't show up

Wordwall

  • green background
  • light blue background
  • black text
  • pixelated font
  • four of text
  • repeated phrases
  • retro digital style
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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
200801121518261489627323
Archive entry
200801121518261489627323.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 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#200801121518261489627323.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801121518261489627323.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016