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Black background with white text "i need you back </3" repeated in a , blue stars scattered around, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner

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Black background with white text "i need you back </3" repeated in a , blue stars scattered around, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner

Black background with white text "i need you back </3" repeated in a , blue stars scattered around, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy i…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star positions shift

Animation Summary

  • Blue stars shift positions across the while the text and gray rectangle remain static

Composition

  • stars scattered
  • gray rectangle bottom-right

Dense Caption

Black background with white text "i need you back </3" repeated in a 3x4 grid pattern. Blue stars (light blue and dark blue) are scattered around the text, with varying positions across the grid. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner. The text is rendered in a pixelated font. The stars appear to shift slightly between grid positions. The gray rectangle remains static throughout.

Description

Black background with white text "i need you back </3" repeated in a , blue stars scattered around, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner

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
  • 20071124185046280043318
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i need you back </3
  • blue stars black background
  • gray rectangle text
  • pixelated text
  • stars shift
  • sentimental text
  • black background white text
  • text blue stars

Objects

  • rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with white text "i need you back </3" repeated in a grid, blue stars scattered around, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Blue stars shift positions across the grid while the text and gray rectangle remain static.
  • quarantined wordwall: 3x4 grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 3x4 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: text grid blue stars
  • quarantined retrieval: sentimental text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: stars shift grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: gray rectangle text grid

Subjects

  • rectangle

Visible Text

  • i need you back </3

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white text
  • i need you back </3
  • blue stars
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated font
  • star positions shift
  • gray rectangle static

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071124185046280043318
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/cf/cff321b16e440e003538345a8db9f279279080ec7a205fd8584a164f7e48679b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC
Archive ID
cff321b16e440e00
SHA-256
cff321b16e440e003538345a8db9f279279080ec7a205fd8584a164f7e48679b
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
0.078537

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black background with white text "i need you back </3" repeated in a , blue stars scattered around, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 11:13 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,051 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,124, response 719

Review tags

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  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • stars shift

Animation

  • star positions shift

Animation Summary

  • Blue stars shift positions across the while the text and gray rectangle remain static

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • stars scattered
  • gray rectangle bottom-right

Dense Caption

Black background with white text "i need you back </3" repeated in a 3x4 grid pattern. Blue stars (light blue and dark blue) are scattered around the text, with varying positions across the grid. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner. The text is rendered in a pixelated font. The stars appear to shift slightly between grid positions. The gray rectangle remains static throughout.

Description

Black background with white text "i need you back </3" repeated in a , blue stars scattered around, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner

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
  • 20071124185046280043318
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • sentimental
  • nostalgic

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  • i need you back </3
  • blue stars black background
  • gray rectangle text
  • pixelated text
  • stars shift
  • sentimental text
  • black background white text
  • text blue stars

Objects

  • stars
  • rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined retrieval: text grid blue stars
  • quarantined retrieval: sentimental text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: stars shift grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: gray rectangle text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text
  • stars
  • rectangle

Visible Text

  • i need you back </3

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white text
  • i need you back </3
  • blue stars
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated font
  • star positions shift
  • gray rectangle static
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:22 UTC
Run
53
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
20071124185046280043318
Archive entry
20071124185046280043318.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 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#20071124185046280043318.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071124185046280043318.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016