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Green pixelated text reads "This is the best avatar ever!" on black background with blue rectangular highlights shifting across different words in each frame.

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Green pixelated text reads "This is the best avatar ever!" on black background with blue rectangular highlights shifting across different words in each frame.

Green pixelated text reads "This is the best avatar ever!" on black background with blue rectangular highlights shifting across different words in each frame. Animated 48×48 GIF A…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • highlight shifts across words

Animation Summary

  • Highlight shifts across different words in the text sequence.

Composition

  • text centered
  • highlight moves across text

Dense Caption

Green pixelated text displays "This is the best avatar ever!" on a black background. Blue rectangular highlights shift across different words in each frame: first frame highlights "This", second frame highlights "is the", third frame highlights "best", fourth frame highlights "avatar", fifth frame highlights "ever!". Text remains static except for the moving blue highlight. All text is uppercase with exclamation mark. Background is solid black. Highlight is solid blue. Text uses a blocky, retro digital font.

Description

Green pixelated text reads "This is the best avatar ever!" on black background with blue rectangular highlights shifting across different words in each frame.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green pixelated text black background
  • blue highlight shifts across words
  • text this is the best avatar ever
  • retro digital font
  • exclamation mark
  • blocky font
  • highlight moves across text
  • text layout 5 lines

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: five frames

Visible Text

  • This
  • is the
  • best
  • avatar
  • ever!

Wordwall

  • green pixelated text
  • black background
  • blue rectangular highlight
  • text: This is the best avatar ever!
  • highlight shifts across words
  • retro digital font
  • exclamation mark
  • uppercase text
  • solid black background
  • solid blue highlight
  • text static except highlight
  • blocky font
  • highlight position changes
  • text layout: 5 lines
  • text: This
  • text: is the
  • text: best
  • text: avatar
  • text: ever!

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070811102209225422979
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708111025091139839588
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
730 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d7/d7c27c921507d293f73d48b3dca2219c24a98ed93fc9345308ee173113301842.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
d7c27c921507d293
SHA-256
d7c27c921507d293f73d48b3dca2219c24a98ed93fc9345308ee173113301842
Content-safety assessments (1)
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
0.103223

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Green pixelated text reads "This is the best avatar ever!" on black background with blue rectangular highlights shifting across different words in each frame.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 22:08 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,126 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,213, response 810

Review tags

  • highlight shifts (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • confident (mood, 0.80)
  • enthusiastic (mood, 0.80)
  • blue highlight (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • highlight shifts across words (other, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • highlight shifts

Animation

  • highlight shifts across words

Animation Summary

  • Highlight shifts across different words in the text sequence.

Colors

  • green
  • black
  • blue

Composition

  • text centered
  • highlight moves across text

Dense Caption

Green pixelated text displays "This is the best avatar ever!" on a black background. Blue rectangular highlights shift across different words in each frame: first frame highlights "This", second frame highlights "is the", third frame highlights "best", fourth frame highlights "avatar", fifth frame highlights "ever!". Text remains static except for the moving blue highlight. All text is uppercase with exclamation mark. Background is solid black. Highlight is solid blue. Text uses a blocky, retro digital font.

Description

Green pixelated text reads "This is the best avatar ever!" on black background with blue rectangular highlights shifting across different words in each frame.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • confident
  • enthusiastic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green pixelated text black background
  • blue highlight shifts across words
  • text this is the best avatar ever
  • retro digital font
  • exclamation mark
  • blocky font
  • highlight moves across text
  • text layout 5 lines

Objects

  • text
  • blue highlight

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: five frames

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • This
  • is the
  • best
  • avatar
  • ever!

Wordwall

  • green pixelated text
  • black background
  • blue rectangular highlight
  • text: This is the best avatar ever!
  • highlight shifts across words
  • retro digital font
  • exclamation mark
  • uppercase text
  • solid black background
  • solid blue highlight
  • text static except highlight
  • blocky font
  • highlight position changes
  • text layout: 5 lines
  • text: This
  • text: is the
  • text: best
  • text: avatar
  • text: ever!
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Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:14 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)
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Full source records (2)
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
20070811102209225422979
Archive entry
20070811102209225422979.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#20070811102209225422979.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070811102209225422979.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016 
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
200708111025091139839588
Archive entry
200708111025091139839588.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#200708111025091139839588.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708111025091139839588.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016