A black background displays white pixelated text reading 'a picture is worth a thousand words' with five small plus signs below, where the third sign changes from gray to white.

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A black background displays white pixelated text reading 'a picture is worth a thousand words' with five small plus signs below, where the third sign changes from gray to white.

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Animation

  • the central plus sign changes from gray to white

Animation Summary

  • The central plus sign changes from gray to white.

Composition

  • text centered horizontally
  • plus signs aligned below text

Dense Caption

Black background. White pixelated sans-serif text arranged in four lines: 'a picture', 'is worth a', 'thousand', 'words'. Below the text, five small plus signs (+++++) are horizontally aligned; the leftmost three and rightmost two are white, while the center sign is gray. The image shows an animation where the central plus sign transitions from gray to white across observations.

Description

A black background displays white pixelated text reading 'a picture is worth a thousand words' with five small plus signs below, where the third sign changes from gray to white.

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
  • 20080322112628531732922

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • a picture is worth a thousand words
  • pixelated text animation
  • plus signs change color
  • black background white text

Visible Text

  • a picture
  • is worth a
  • thousand
  • words

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'a picture' on first line
  • 'is worth a' on second line
  • 'thousand' on third line
  • 'words' on fourth line
  • five small plus signs below text
  • central plus sign is gray
  • plus signs transition from gray to white

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080322112628531732922
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC
Archive ID
e2fdb20623d92e59
SHA-256
e2fdb20623d92e59378741dde080eee55d0ab08fd06e9688108c42de9ee4a115
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:55 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079661

OpenAI category scores

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A black background displays white pixelated text reading 'a picture is worth a thousand words' with five small plus signs below, where the third sign changes from gray to white.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 09:27 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,835 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 687

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • five small plus signs (object, 0.80)
  • the central plus sign changes from gray to white (other, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • the central plus sign changes color from gray to white

Animation

  • the central plus sign changes from gray to white

Animation Summary

  • The central plus sign changes from gray to white.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • text centered horizontally
  • plus signs aligned below text

Dense Caption

Black background. White pixelated sans-serif text arranged in four lines: 'a picture', 'is worth a', 'thousand', 'words'. Below the text, five small plus signs (+++++) are horizontally aligned; the leftmost three and rightmost two are white, while the center sign is gray. The image shows an animation where the central plus sign transitions from gray to white across observations.

Description

A black background displays white pixelated text reading 'a picture is worth a thousand words' with five small plus signs below, where the third sign changes from gray to white.

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
  • 20080322112628531732922

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • a picture is worth a thousand words
  • pixelated text animation
  • plus signs change color
  • black background white text

Objects

  • five small plus signs

Style

  • pixelated
  • monochrome
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • a picture
  • is worth a
  • thousand
  • words

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'a picture' on first line
  • 'is worth a' on second line
  • 'thousand' on third line
  • 'words' on fourth line
  • five small plus signs below text
  • central plus sign is gray
  • plus signs transition from gray to white
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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
20080322112628531732922
Archive entry
20080322112628531732922.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 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