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Pixelated character with yellow face and blue hair under white umbrella, text above reads 'The sky is Crying' in white block letters.

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Pixelated character with yellow face and blue hair under white umbrella, text above reads 'The sky is Crying' in white block letters.

Pixelated character with yellow face and blue hair under white umbrella, text above reads 'The sky is Crying' in white block letters. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes from 'The sky' to 'is Crying'

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from 'The sky' to 'is Crying' while character remains static.

Composition

  • centered character
  • text above

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with yellow face and blue hair under white umbrella; character has large white eyes, small pink mouth, and gray clothing; text above character reads 'The sky' on left side and 'is Crying' on right side; background is dark gray; animation shows text changing from 'The sky' to 'is Crying' while character remains static; colors include yellow, blue, white, gray, and pink; style is low-resolution pixel art; composition is centered character with text above; mood is melancholic.

Description

  • Pixelated character with yellow face and blue hair under white umbrella, text above reads 'The sky is Crying' in white block letters.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow face blue hair umbrella text sky crying
  • pixel art character text animation melancholic
  • blue hair yellow face white umbrella gray background
  • text 'The sky' text 'is Crying' pixel art

Visible Text

  • The sky
  • is Crying

Wordwall

  • yellow face
  • blue hair
  • white umbrella
  • large white eyes
  • small pink mouth
  • gray clothing
  • text 'The sky'
  • text 'is Crying'
  • dark gray background
  • pixel art style
  • melancholic mood
  • text animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708171303561329800956
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bd/bdc9a6c202ed9f4917c09f6442dc10a256101506eb040ff2334922b48846d792.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
bdc9a6c202ed9f49
SHA-256
bdc9a6c202ed9f4917c09f6442dc10a256101506eb040ff2334922b48846d792
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:35 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.092763

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated character with yellow face and blue hair under white umbrella, text above reads 'The sky is Crying' in white block letters.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 01:24 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,923 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 689

Review tags

  • text animation (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • umbrella (object, 0.80)
  • text changes from the sky to is crying (other, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text animation

Animation

  • text changes from 'The sky' to 'is Crying'

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from 'The sky' to 'is Crying' while character remains static.

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • white
  • gray
  • pink

Composition

  • centered character
  • text above

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with yellow face and blue hair under white umbrella; character has large white eyes, small pink mouth, and gray clothing; text above character reads 'The sky' on left side and 'is Crying' on right side; background is dark gray; animation shows text changing from 'The sky' to 'is Crying' while character remains static; colors include yellow, blue, white, gray, and pink; style is low-resolution pixel art; composition is centered character with text above; mood is melancholic.

Description

  • Pixelated character with yellow face and blue hair under white umbrella, text above reads 'The sky is Crying' in white block letters.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • melancholic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow face blue hair umbrella text sky crying
  • pixel art character text animation melancholic
  • blue hair yellow face white umbrella gray background
  • text 'The sky' text 'is Crying' pixel art

Objects

  • umbrella

Style

  • pixel art

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • The sky
  • is Crying

Wordwall

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  • blue hair
  • white umbrella
  • large white eyes
  • small pink mouth
  • gray clothing
  • text 'The sky'
  • text 'is Crying'
  • dark gray background
  • pixel art style
  • melancholic mood
  • text animation
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:59 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200708171303561329800956
Archive entry
200708171303561329800956.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#200708171303561329800956.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708171303561329800956.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016