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Brown background with pink pixelated text repeating 'Are you sad? Don't be!' surrounded by asterisk and dotted line borders.

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Brown background with pink pixelated text repeating 'Are you sad? Don't be!' surrounded by asterisk and dotted line borders.

Brown background with pink pixelated text repeating 'Are you sad? Don't be!' surrounded by asterisk and dotted line borders. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • bordered frame
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Brown background features repeated pink pixelated text reading 'Are you sad? Don't be!' in four quadrants. Each quadrant is bordered by a combination of dashed lines and asterisks forming a frame. The text appears identical across all visible sections with no discernible animation changes between observations. Pixelation indicates low-resolution rendering typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Brown background with pink pixelated text repeating 'Are you sad? Don't be!' surrounded by asterisk and dotted line borders.

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
  • 20081222210955773459054

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown background pink text 'are you sad'
  • 'don't be!' pixelated text
  • asterisk dashed line border
  • four quadrant repeating text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Visible Text

  • Are you sad? Don't be!

Wordwall

  • brown background
  • pink pixelated text
  • are you sad?
  • don't be!
  • asterisk borders
  • dashed line borders
  • four quadrants

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081222210955773459054
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/cf/cf844419b70c517e6f83ebac8105a0cf5a306c091c25bc161c09519ffae53b46.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
cf844419b70c517e
SHA-256
cf844419b70c517e6f83ebac8105a0cf5a306c091c25bc161c09519ffae53b46
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:45 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.102206

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Brown background with pink pixelated text repeating 'Are you sad? Don't be!' surrounded by asterisk and dotted line borders.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 15:01 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,498 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 627

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • encouraging (mood, 0.80)
  • reassuring (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive layout (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • pink

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • bordered frame
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Brown background features repeated pink pixelated text reading 'Are you sad? Don't be!' in four quadrants. Each quadrant is bordered by a combination of dashed lines and asterisks forming a frame. The text appears identical across all visible sections with no discernible animation changes between observations. Pixelation indicates low-resolution rendering typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Brown background with pink pixelated text repeating 'Are you sad? Don't be!' surrounded by asterisk and dotted line borders.

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
  • 20081222210955773459054

Mood

  • encouraging
  • reassuring

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown background pink text 'are you sad'
  • 'don't be!' pixelated text
  • asterisk dashed line border
  • four quadrant repeating text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • repetitive layout

Visible Text

  • Are you sad? Don't be!

Wordwall

  • brown background
  • pink pixelated text
  • are you sad?
  • don't be!
  • asterisk borders
  • dashed line borders
  • four quadrants
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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
20081222210955773459054
Archive entry
20081222210955773459054.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#20081222210955773459054.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081222210955773459054.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016