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Red pixelated text "It ain't easy being cheesy" on dark green background with small red symbols changing across frames.

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Red pixelated text "It ain't easy being cheesy" on dark green background with small red symbols changing across frames.

Red pixelated text "It ain't easy being cheesy" on dark green background with small red symbols changing across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fra…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • symbol changes across frames: plus→asterisk→X in first ; plus→period→colon in second ; dots appear below third

Animation Summary

Small red symbols below text change across frames: first shows plus sign, asterisk, X; second shows plus sign, period, colon; third shows dots

Composition

  • three
  • centered text
  • symbols below text

Dense Caption

Dark green background displays repeated red pixelated text "It ain't easy being cheesy" in three columns. Each column contains identical text but different small red symbols: first row shows plus sign, asterisk, and X; second row shows plus sign, period, and colon; third row shows dots below the text. Symbols change across frames while text remains static.

Description

  • Red pixelated text "It ain't easy being cheesy" on dark green background with small red symbols changing across frames.

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
  • 20080528171809211889322

Named Entities

  • cheesy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated text dark green background
  • three cheesy symbol changes
  • plus asterisk X period colon dots
  • text ain't easy being cheesy

Objects

  • plus sign
  • X

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Small red symbols below text change across frames: first row shows plus sign, asterisk, X; second row shows plus sign, period, colon; third row shows dots.
  • quarantined wordwall: three columns of identical text
  • quarantined composition: three-column grid
  • quarantined animation: symbol changes across frames: plus→asterisk→X in first row; plus→period→colon in second row; dots appear below third row
  • quarantined retrieval: three columns cheesy symbol changes

Visible Text

  • It ain't easy being cheesy

Visually Supported Entities

  • humor

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • dark green background
  • three of identical text
  • plus sign symbol
  • asterisk symbol
  • X symbol
  • period symbol
  • colon symbol
  • dots symbol

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080528171809211889322
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
510 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/de/de4a1f9261d50a03d03dd09af6c44a6567f2f0d3b75707f7a6714a65c2dc51e1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC
Archive ID
de4a1f9261d50a03
SHA-256
de4a1f9261d50a03d03dd09af6c44a6567f2f0d3b75707f7a6714a65c2dc51e1
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:53 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.067395

OpenAI category scores

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Red pixelated text "It ain't easy being cheesy" on dark green background with small red symbols changing across frames.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 20:01 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,368 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 719

Review tags

  • symbol changes (action, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • asterisk (object, 0.80)
  • colon (object, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • period (object, 0.80)
  • plus sign (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • symbol changes

Animation

  • symbol changes across frames: plus→asterisk→X in first ; plus→period→colon in second ; dots appear below third

Animation Summary

Small red symbols below text change across frames: first shows plus sign, asterisk, X; second shows plus sign, period, colon; third shows dots

Colors

  • dark green
  • red

Composition

  • three
  • centered text
  • symbols below text

Dense Caption

Dark green background displays repeated red pixelated text "It ain't easy being cheesy" in three columns. Each column contains identical text but different small red symbols: first row shows plus sign, asterisk, and X; second row shows plus sign, period, and colon; third row shows dots below the text. Symbols change across frames while text remains static.

Description

  • Red pixelated text "It ain't easy being cheesy" on dark green background with small red symbols changing across frames.

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
  • 20080528171809211889322

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Named Entities

  • cheesy

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  • red pixelated text dark green background
  • three cheesy symbol changes
  • plus asterisk X period colon dots
  • text ain't easy being cheesy

Objects

  • plus sign
  • asterisk
  • X
  • period
  • colon
  • dots

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: three columns of identical text
  • quarantined composition: three-column grid
  • quarantined animation: symbol changes across frames: plus→asterisk→X in first row; plus→period→colon in second row; dots appear below third row
  • quarantined retrieval: three columns cheesy symbol changes

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text
  • symbols

Visible Text

  • It ain't easy being cheesy

Visually Supported Entities

  • humor

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • dark green background
  • three of identical text
  • plus sign symbol
  • asterisk symbol
  • X symbol
  • period symbol
  • colon symbol
  • dots 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
20080528171809211889322
Archive entry
20080528171809211889322.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 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

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