Pixelated text reads "wow these icons are lame" with green symbols changing across frames on a black background.

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Pixelated text reads "wow these icons are lame" with green symbols changing across frames on a black background.

Pixelated text reads "wow these icons are lame" with green symbols changing across frames on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Animation

  • plus signs → asterisks → X marks → plus signs → single dot → four-dot square → scattered dots

Animation Summary

Green symbols change sequentially across frames: plus signs → asterisks → X marks → plus signs → single dot → four-dot square → scattered dots while text remains static.

Composition

  • three- layout
  • centered text
  • symbols aligned right of

Dense Caption

Black background displays white pixelated text reading "wow these icons are lame" in three columns. Green symbols appear at the right of each column: first frame shows plus signs, second frame replaces them with asterisks, third frame changes to X marks. Fourth and fifth frames show plus signs again, then sixth frame has a single green dot on the right side of the middle column. Seventh frame displays four green dots in a square pattern below the text. Eighth frame shows scattered green dots across the bottom-right area. Text remains unchanged throughout all visible animation cycles.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads "wow these icons are lame" with green symbols changing across frames on a black 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
  • 20080407060901904337075

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • "wow these icons are lame" pixel art
  • three green symbol animation
  • text-based icon with changing symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: columns: three vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: symbols aligned right of columns
  • quarantined composition: three-column layout
  • quarantined retrieval: three column green symbol animation

Visible Text

  • wow
  • these
  • icons
  • are
  • lame

Wordwall

  • text: "wow these icons are lame"
  • three vertical
  • background: black
  • text color: white pixelated
  • symbols: green plus signs, asterisks, X marks, single dot, four-dot square, scattered dots

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080407060901904337075
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
498 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b6/b692166b8e6783ffa627e3dca6b3155550721de446f10023da1efce373cbadd8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC
Archive ID
b692166b8e6783ff
SHA-256
b692166b8e6783ffa627e3dca6b3155550721de446f10023da1efce373cbadd8
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:30 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072555

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text reads "wow these icons are lame" with green symbols changing across frames on a black background.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 00:52 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,468 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 658

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • critical (mood, 0.80)
  • dismissive (mood, 0.80)
  • monochrome with accent color (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • plus signs → asterisks → X marks → plus signs → single dot → four-dot square → scattered dots

Animation Summary

Green symbols change sequentially across frames: plus signs → asterisks → X marks → plus signs → single dot → four-dot square → scattered dots while text remains static.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • green

Composition

  • three- layout
  • centered text
  • symbols aligned right of

Dense Caption

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Description

  • Pixelated text reads "wow these icons are lame" with green symbols changing across frames on a black 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
  • 20080407060901904337075

Mood

  • critical
  • dismissive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • "wow these icons are lame" pixel art
  • three green symbol animation
  • text-based icon with changing symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: columns: three vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: symbols aligned right of columns
  • quarantined composition: three-column layout
  • quarantined retrieval: three column green symbol animation

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
  • monochrome with accent color

Visible Text

  • wow
  • these
  • icons
  • are
  • lame

Wordwall

  • text: "wow these icons are lame"
  • three vertical
  • background: black
  • text color: white pixelated
  • symbols: green plus signs, asterisks, X marks, single dot, four-dot square, scattered dots
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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
20080407060901904337075
Archive entry
20080407060901904337075.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 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