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Yellow background with repeated black text "A life lived for others is a life worthwhile" and red symbols changing across frames.

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Yellow background with repeated black text "A life lived for others is a life worthwhile" and red symbols changing across frames.

Yellow background with repeated black text "A life lived for others is a life worthwhile" and red symbols changing across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Source terms

Animation

  • red symbols change per frame: + * × → + . : → dots

Animation Summary

  • Red symbols change across frames while text remains static; three distinct symbol sets appear sequentially.

Composition

  • three of identical text
  • symbols positioned between and below text lines

Dense Caption

Yellow background displays three rows of identical black pixelated text: "A life lived for others is a life worthwhile." Red symbols change per frame: first row shows +, *, ×; second row shows +, ., :; third row shows dots. Text remains static while symbol positions shift slightly between frames.

Description

  • Yellow background with repeated black text "A life lived for others is a life worthwhile" and red symbols 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
  • 20080119163345324350760

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow background black text red symbols
  • "A life lived for others is a life worthwhile" animation
  • pixelated text red symbols changing

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three rows of identical text

Visible Text

  • A life lived
  • for others
  • is a life
  • worthwhile

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • black pixelated text
  • "A life lived for others is a life worthwhile"
  • red symbols
  • + * ×
  • + . :
  • dots

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080119163345324350760
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
542 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 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 15:11 UTC
Archive ID
b8ec4dfb425fa24f
SHA-256
b8ec4dfb425fa24f0694aa6639b52048977a9ee07d95e187ba111fca664c83c9
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:33 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.162508

OpenAI category scores

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Yellow background with repeated black text "A life lived for others is a life worthwhile" and red symbols changing across frames.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 11:35 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,073 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 581

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • red symbols change per frame dots (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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Animation

  • red symbols change per frame: + * × → + . : → dots

Animation Summary

  • Red symbols change across frames while text remains static; three distinct symbol sets appear sequentially.

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • red

Composition

  • three of identical text
  • symbols positioned between and below text lines

Dense Caption

Yellow background displays three rows of identical black pixelated text: "A life lived for others is a life worthwhile." Red symbols change per frame: first row shows +, *, ×; second row shows +, ., :; third row shows dots. Text remains static while symbol positions shift slightly between frames.

Description

  • Yellow background with repeated black text "A life lived for others is a life worthwhile" and red symbols 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
  • 20080119163345324350760

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow background black text red symbols
  • "A life lived for others is a life worthwhile" animation
  • pixelated text red symbols changing

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three rows of identical text

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static text with animated symbols

Visible Text

  • A life lived
  • for others
  • is a life
  • worthwhile

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • black pixelated text
  • "A life lived for others is a life worthwhile"
  • red symbols
  • + * ×
  • + . :
  • 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
20080119163345324350760
Archive entry
20080119163345324350760.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 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#20080119163345324350760.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080119163345324350760.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016