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Pixelated text phrases on a black background with red speckled patterns, partially obscured by gray overlay.

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Pixelated text phrases on a black background with red speckled patterns, partially obscured by gray overlay.

Pixelated text phrases on a black background with red speckled patterns, partially obscured by gray overlay. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text arranged in three sections: top-left, top-right, bottom-left
  • solid gray rectangle occupies lower-right quadrant
  • text positioned over red speckled background

Dense Caption

Black background filled with scattered red pixel clusters. White blocky text reads "OK I KNOW" in top-left, "IM PERFECT NOW" in top-right, and "STOP STARING" in bottom-left; the word "STARING" is cut off at right edge. A solid gray rectangle covers the entire lower-right quadrant. Text uses a retro digital font with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated text phrases on a black background with red speckled patterns, partially obscured by gray overlay.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710161732412013633505
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text phrases black background red speckled
  • retro digital font white blocky text gray overlay
  • OK I KNOW IM PERFECT NOW STOP STARING
  • cut-off word STARING

Visible Text

  • OK I KNOW
  • IM PERFECT NOW
  • STOP STARING

Wordwall

  • black background
  • red speckled patterns
  • white blocky text
  • retro digital font
  • gray overlay
  • text phrases: OK I KNOW, IM PERFECT NOW, STOP STARING
  • cut-off word: STARING
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710161732412013633505
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
3.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d8/d88b04e54aa80a194e8eff31da93d5d472818f0a443cc779f9d4226824857da6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC
Archive ID
d88b04e54aa80a19
SHA-256
d88b04e54aa80a194e8eff31da93d5d472818f0a443cc779f9d4226824857da6
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
0.082122

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text phrases on a black background with red speckled patterns, partially obscured by gray overlay.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 10:36 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,731 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 711

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • red
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • text arranged in three sections: top-left, top-right, bottom-left
  • solid gray rectangle occupies lower-right quadrant
  • text positioned over red speckled background

Dense Caption

Black background filled with scattered red pixel clusters. White blocky text reads "OK I KNOW" in top-left, "IM PERFECT NOW" in top-right, and "STOP STARING" in bottom-left; the word "STARING" is cut off at right edge. A solid gray rectangle covers the entire lower-right quadrant. Text uses a retro digital font with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated text phrases on a black background with red speckled patterns, partially obscured by gray overlay.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710161732412013633505
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text phrases black background red speckled
  • retro digital font white blocky text gray overlay
  • OK I KNOW IM PERFECT NOW STOP STARING
  • cut-off word STARING

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • blocky text

Visible Text

  • OK I KNOW
  • IM PERFECT NOW
  • STOP STARING

Wordwall

  • black background
  • red speckled patterns
  • white blocky text
  • retro digital font
  • gray overlay
  • text phrases: OK I KNOW, IM PERFECT NOW, STOP STARING
  • cut-off word: STARING
  • pixelated rendering
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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
200710161732412013633505
Archive entry
200710161732412013633505.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#200710161732412013633505.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710161732412013633505.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016