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Pixelated text reads 'my bf plays hockey!<(3!' in pink on black background with white and gray star-shaped corner decorations.

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Pixelated text reads 'my bf plays hockey!<(3!' in pink on black background with white and gray star-shaped corner decorations.

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two of three text blocks each
  • corner decorations at all four corners
  • text centered within each block space

Dense Caption

Black background displays repeated pixelated text 'my bf plays hockey!<(3!' in light purple/pink font across two rows. Each row contains three identical text blocks separated by spacing. White and gray star-shaped corner decorations appear at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right positions; some stars have dotted lines extending from them toward the center. The text is consistently rendered with a retro digital style using blocky pixels.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads 'my bf plays hockey!<(3!' in pink on black background with white and gray star-shaped corner decorations.

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080604123940252057806

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hockey!<(3! text
  • pink pixelated text on black
  • star corner decorations
  • repeated text blocks
  • retro digital font

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two rows of three text blocks each

Visible Text

  • my bf plays hockey!<(3!

Wordwall

  • light purple/pink pixelated text
  • black background
  • white star corner decorations
  • gray star corner decorations
  • dotted line extensions on stars
  • repeated text blocks
  • retro digital font
  • hockey!<(3! text string

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080604123940252057806
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
634 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC
Archive ID
b740d24bd274b916
SHA-256
b740d24bd274b916dfed228995ffaf7ba1f2287bcadf2c7a5bd3dfdb6694687f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:31 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093270

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Pixelated text reads 'my bf plays hockey!<(3!' in pink on black background with white and gray star-shaped corner decorations.

Reviewed
August 16, 2026 at 16:26 UTC
Run
59
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,211 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,160, response 683

Review tags

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  • black
  • light purple/pink
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • two of three text blocks each
  • corner decorations at all four corners
  • text centered within each block space

Dense Caption

Black background displays repeated pixelated text 'my bf plays hockey!<(3!' in light purple/pink font across two rows. Each row contains three identical text blocks separated by spacing. White and gray star-shaped corner decorations appear at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right positions; some stars have dotted lines extending from them toward the center. The text is consistently rendered with a retro digital style using blocky pixels.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads 'my bf plays hockey!<(3!' in pink on black background with white and gray star-shaped corner decorations.

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080604123940252057806

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hockey!<(3! text
  • pink pixelated text on black
  • star corner decorations
  • repeated text blocks
  • retro digital font

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two rows of three text blocks each

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • my bf plays hockey!<(3!

Wordwall

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  • black background
  • white star corner decorations
  • gray star corner decorations
  • dotted line extensions on stars
  • repeated text blocks
  • retro digital font
  • hockey!<(3! text string
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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
20080604123940252057806
Archive entry
20080604123940252057806.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 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#20080604123940252057806.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080604123940252057806.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016