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Pixelated text on a red and black checkered background with repeated phrases.

Pixelated text on a red and black checkered background with repeated phrases. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s t…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two identical vertical
  • stacked text layout
  • checkered background pattern

Dense Caption

The image displays two identical vertical columns of pixelated light blue text reading "tears make my world really blurry" against a background composed of alternating dark red and black squares. The text appears in a retro digital font style, with each word stacked vertically within the column layout. Both columns contain exactly eight lines of text arranged identically.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a red and black checkered background with repeated phrases.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071017150024545535733

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • tears make my world really blurry
  • pixelated text buddy icon
  • red and black checkered background
  • light blue retro digital font

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: eight lines per column
  • quarantined wordwall: two identical vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: two identical vertical columns

Visible Text

  • tears
  • make
  • my
  • world
  • really
  • blurry

Wordwall

  • light blue pixelated text
  • red and black checkered background
  • two identical vertical
  • eight lines per
  • "tears make my world really blurry" phrase
  • retro digital font style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071017150024545535733
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ca/ca4df5f7633a3d78ee963eb97fa09ffcbea0bd875473e96dbe56820c999acd3f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC
Archive ID
ca4df5f7633a3d78
SHA-256
ca4df5f7633a3d78ee963eb97fa09ffcbea0bd875473e96dbe56820c999acd3f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:42 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094351

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text on a red and black checkered background with repeated phrases.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 10:44 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,033 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,103, response 627

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark red (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • dark red
  • black

Composition

  • two identical vertical
  • stacked text layout
  • checkered background pattern

Dense Caption

The image displays two identical vertical columns of pixelated light blue text reading "tears make my world really blurry" against a background composed of alternating dark red and black squares. The text appears in a retro digital font style, with each word stacked vertically within the column layout. Both columns contain exactly eight lines of text arranged identically.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a red and black checkered background with repeated phrases.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071017150024545535733

Mood

  • melancholic
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • tears make my world really blurry
  • pixelated text buddy icon
  • red and black checkered background
  • light blue retro digital font

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: eight lines per column
  • quarantined wordwall: two identical vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: two identical vertical columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • tears
  • make
  • my
  • world
  • really
  • blurry

Wordwall

  • light blue pixelated text
  • red and black checkered background
  • two identical vertical
  • eight lines per
  • "tears make my world really blurry" phrase
  • retro digital font style
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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
20071017150024545535733
Archive entry
20071017150024545535733.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 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#20071017150024545535733.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071017150024545535733.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016