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Pixelated text on a striped background with vertical pink, white, orange, yellow, and cyan stripes; the lower right corner is solid gray.

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Pixelated text on a striped background with vertical pink, white, orange, yellow, and cyan stripes; the lower right corner is solid gray.

Pixelated text on a striped background with vertical pink, white, orange, yellow, and cyan stripes; the lower right corner is solid gray. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical stripes
  • text split into two sections
  • solid gray rectangle in lower right

Dense Caption

The image displays pixelated black text on a background of vertical stripes in pink, white, orange, yellow, and cyan. The text is split into two sections: the left section reads "i can feel u near me up far away" and the right section reads "even though". The lower right portion of the image is a solid gray rectangle. The text uses a lowercase 'u' for 'you' and is rendered in a blocky, pixelated font typical of early digital graphics. The stripes are evenly spaced and run vertically across the entire image except for the gray rectangle.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a striped background with vertical pink, white, orange, yellow, and cyan stripes; the lower right corner is solid gray.

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

  • pixelated text striped background
  • i can feel u near me even though
  • lower right gray rectangle
  • vertical pink white orange yellow cyan stripes
  • blocky font lowercase u
  • up far away
  • text split two sections
  • evenly spaced stripes

Visible Text

  • i can feel u near me
  • up far away
  • even though

Wordwall

  • vertical stripes
  • pink white orange yellow cyan
  • pixelated text
  • lower right gray rectangle
  • i can feel u near me
  • up far away
  • even though
  • lowercase u
  • blocky font
  • evenly spaced stripes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708080931232126194265
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c4/c418d8f15f66c1fe757aadbdbe9929c742b57b3803747c9a2bc1ba613e29e2d9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
c418d8f15f66c1fe
SHA-256
c418d8f15f66c1fe757aadbdbe9929c742b57b3803747c9a2bc1ba613e29e2d9
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 12:33 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000501

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:38 UTC
Run
1140
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Overall label
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated text on a striped background with vertical pink, white, orange, yellow, and cyan stripes; the lower right corner is solid gray.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 20:37 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,312 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 738

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • striped background (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • white
  • orange
  • yellow
  • cyan
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • vertical stripes
  • text split into two sections
  • solid gray rectangle in lower right

Dense Caption

The image displays pixelated black text on a background of vertical stripes in pink, white, orange, yellow, and cyan. The text is split into two sections: the left section reads "i can feel u near me up far away" and the right section reads "even though". The lower right portion of the image is a solid gray rectangle. The text uses a lowercase 'u' for 'you' and is rendered in a blocky, pixelated font typical of early digital graphics. The stripes are evenly spaced and run vertically across the entire image except for the gray rectangle.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a striped background with vertical pink, white, orange, yellow, and cyan stripes; the lower right corner is solid gray.

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

  • pixelated text striped background
  • i can feel u near me even though
  • lower right gray rectangle
  • vertical pink white orange yellow cyan stripes
  • blocky font lowercase u
  • up far away
  • text split two sections
  • evenly spaced stripes

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
  • striped background

Visible Text

  • i can feel u near me
  • up far away
  • even though

Wordwall

  • vertical stripes
  • pink white orange yellow cyan
  • pixelated text
  • lower right gray rectangle
  • i can feel u near me
  • up far away
  • even though
  • lowercase u
  • blocky font
  • evenly spaced stripes
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:49 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)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200708080931232126194265
Archive entry
200708080931232126194265.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#200708080931232126194265.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708080931232126194265.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016