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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with pink highlight boxes cycling through different phrases.

Pixelated text and symbols on black background with pink highlight boxes cycling through different phrases. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • highlight box cycles through positions
  • illuminates different text phrases sequentially

Animation Summary

  • Highlight box cycles through positions, illuminating different text phrases sequentially

Composition

  • sequential highlighting

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated white text: "i'm", "so", "sexy!!", "lol", and "<3" arranged in a grid. Pink rectangular highlights cycle across the grid, illuminating one phrase at a time. The highlighted positions change sequentially from top-left to bottom-right across observations. Text uses 8-bit style font with double exclamation marks on "sexy!!" and heart symbol for "<3".

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with pink highlight boxes cycling through different 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080202175303931328841

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i'm so sexy!! lol <3
  • pixelated text animation
  • magenta highlight cycling
  • 8-bit font humor

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Highlight box cycles through grid positions, illuminating different text phrases sequentially.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined animation: highlight box cycles through grid positions

Visible Text

  • i'm
  • so
  • sexy!!
  • lol
  • <3

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pixelated white text
  • pink highlight boxes
  • i'm
  • so
  • sexy!!
  • lol
  • <3
  • 8-bit font
  • double exclamation marks
  • heart symbol

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080202175303931328841
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
631 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d7/d76752d77f465dafb50ed4dba93544721cfb61a793d4064de5793483ee4dd8f4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC
Archive ID
d76752d77f465daf
SHA-256
d76752d77f465dafb50ed4dba93544721cfb61a793d4064de5793483ee4dd8f4
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 31, 2026 at 14:44 UTC
Run
1252
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.286976

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.286976falseself-harm/intent0.000212falsesexual/minors0.000105falseharassment0.000069falseself-harm0.000010falsehate0.000007falseviolence0.000005falseillicit0.000004falseviolence/graphic0.000004falseself-harm/instructions0.000003falseharassment/threatening0.000003falseillicit/violent0.000001falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/ocr/sexual1.000000textenrichment/visual/sexual0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:49 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079188

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.927044onnx/unsafe0.079188onnx/nsfl0.040737onnx/nsfw0.038451
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text and symbols on black background with pink highlight boxes cycling through different phrases.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,782 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,163, response 672

Review tags

  • highlight cycling (action, 0.80)
  • text illumination (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pink highlight boxes (object, 0.80)
  • highlight box cycles through positions (other, 0.80)
  • illuminates different text phrases sequentially (other, 0.80)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • highlight cycling
  • text illumination

Animation

  • highlight box cycles through positions
  • illuminates different text phrases sequentially

Animation Summary

  • Highlight box cycles through positions, illuminating different text phrases sequentially

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • magenta

Composition

  • sequential highlighting

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated white text: "i'm", "so", "sexy!!", "lol", and "<3" arranged in a grid. Pink rectangular highlights cycle across the grid, illuminating one phrase at a time. The highlighted positions change sequentially from top-left to bottom-right across observations. Text uses 8-bit style font with double exclamation marks on "sexy!!" and heart symbol for "<3".

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on black background with pink highlight boxes cycling through different 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080202175303931328841

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i'm so sexy!! lol <3
  • pixelated text animation
  • magenta highlight cycling
  • 8-bit font humor

Objects

  • pink highlight boxes

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Highlight box cycles through grid positions, illuminating different text phrases sequentially.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined animation: highlight box cycles through grid positions

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • i'm
  • so
  • sexy!!
  • lol
  • <3

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pixelated white text
  • pink highlight boxes
  • i'm
  • so
  • sexy!!
  • lol
  • <3
  • 8-bit font
  • double exclamation marks
  • heart symbol
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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
20080202175303931328841
Archive entry
20080202175303931328841.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 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#20080202175303931328841.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080202175303931328841.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016