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Pixelated text on cyan background with light blue and white pixelated wave pattern at bottom.

Pixelated text on cyan background with light blue and white pixelated wave pattern at bottom. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Composition

  • two vertical text
  • horizontal wave pattern at bottom

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays black pixelated text reading "i h8 u 4 makin me change my icon" in two identical vertical columns. Text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital interfaces. Bottom portion features horizontal band of light blue and white pixels forming irregular wave-like pattern with varying brightness levels. All elements maintain consistent pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated text on cyan background with light blue and white pixelated wave pattern at bottom.

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
  • 20080419121708671287668

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pixel art text wave pattern
  • i h8 u 4 makin me change my icon
  • two identical cyan background
  • pixelated font light blue wave

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two identical columns
  • quarantined composition: two vertical text columns
  • quarantined retrieval: two identical columns cyan background

Visible Text

  • i h8 u
  • 4 makin
  • me change
  • my icon

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • black text
  • pixelated font
  • light blue wave pattern
  • white accents
  • two identical
  • text reads i h8 u 4 makin me change my icon

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080419121708671287668
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
745 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e0/e0b296546d216fe83af1da5eb7cf02281bef3ee307256b19ead154b739a8ed13.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC
Archive ID
e0b296546d216fe8
SHA-256
e0b296546d216fe83af1da5eb7cf02281bef3ee307256b19ead154b739a8ed13
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 12:58 UTC
Run
1245
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000518

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:19 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.198538

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text on cyan background with light blue and white pixelated wave pattern at bottom.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 05:58 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,079 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,139, response 634

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • informal (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • static image with no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • light blue
  • white

Composition

  • two vertical text
  • horizontal wave pattern at bottom

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays black pixelated text reading "i h8 u 4 makin me change my icon" in two identical vertical columns. Text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital interfaces. Bottom portion features horizontal band of light blue and white pixels forming irregular wave-like pattern with varying brightness levels. All elements maintain consistent pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated text on cyan background with light blue and white pixelated wave pattern at bottom.

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
  • 20080419121708671287668

Mood

  • playful
  • informal

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pixel art text wave pattern
  • i h8 u 4 makin me change my icon
  • two identical cyan background
  • pixelated font light blue wave

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two identical columns
  • quarantined composition: two vertical text columns
  • quarantined retrieval: two identical columns cyan background

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • i h8 u
  • 4 makin
  • me change
  • my icon

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • black text
  • pixelated font
  • light blue wave pattern
  • white accents
  • two identical
  • text reads i h8 u 4 makin me change my icon
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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
20080419121708671287668
Archive entry
20080419121708671287668.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 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#20080419121708671287668.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080419121708671287668.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016