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A static digital image with blue text on an orange background featuring yellow dots.

A static digital image with blue text on an orange background featuring yellow dots. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-…

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Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • evenly scattered dots
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image displays a static digital composition with a bright orange background scattered with small yellow dots. Centered text in blue, pixelated font reads "Time may change me, but I can't change time" across four lines. The text is identical in all visible sections of the image. The font style is blocky and pixelated, characteristic of early digital graphics. The orange background is solid with evenly distributed yellow dots. The text is consistently positioned and styled throughout the visible area.

Description

  • A static digital image with blue text on an orange background featuring yellow dots.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue text orange background yellow dots
  • pixelated text time may change me
  • static digital image four lines text
  • orange background yellow dots blue text
  • time may change me but i can't change time
  • blocky lettering centered text
  • evenly scattered dots digital graphic
  • text time may change me but i can't change time

Visible Text

  • Time may change me, but I can't change time

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • orange background
  • yellow dots
  • pixelated font
  • static image
  • four lines of text
  • identical text sections
  • blocky lettering
  • evenly scattered dots
  • centered text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200903011542422012146533
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d9/d91c3ee62cdec090d4f035f7ead7390fe1b5ba37f50763e1c44928d3ad8c72c2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
d91c3ee62cdec090
SHA-256
d91c3ee62cdec090d4f035f7ead7390fe1b5ba37f50763e1c44928d3ad8c72c2
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 01:22 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000009

OpenAI category scores

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Qwen scheduling evidence

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

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:50 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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A static digital image with blue text on an orange background featuring yellow dots.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 01:13 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,920 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 697

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • digital (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • orange
  • yellow
  • blue

Composition

  • centered text
  • evenly scattered dots
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image displays a static digital composition with a bright orange background scattered with small yellow dots. Centered text in blue, pixelated font reads "Time may change me, but I can't change time" across four lines. The text is identical in all visible sections of the image. The font style is blocky and pixelated, characteristic of early digital graphics. The orange background is solid with evenly distributed yellow dots. The text is consistently positioned and styled throughout the visible area.

Description

  • A static digital image with blue text on an orange background featuring yellow dots.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • pixelated text time may change me
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  • time may change me but i can't change time
  • blocky lettering centered text
  • evenly scattered dots digital graphic
  • text time may change me but i can't change time

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital
  • static

Visible Text

  • Time may change me, but I can't change time

Wordwall

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  • orange background
  • yellow dots
  • pixelated font
  • static image
  • four lines of text
  • identical text sections
  • blocky lettering
  • evenly scattered dots
  • centered text
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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
200903011542422012146533
Archive entry
200903011542422012146533.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#200903011542422012146533.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200903011542422012146533.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016