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Pixelated blue text on a greenish pixelated background reads 'never regret the good times' with a smiley face.

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Pixelated blue text on a greenish pixelated background reads 'never regret the good times' with a smiley face.

Pixelated blue text on a greenish pixelated background reads 'never regret the good times' with a smiley face. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text layout
  • four lines of text stacked vertically
  • background gradient with no distinct shapes

Dense Caption

The image is a static, low-resolution digital graphic composed of square pixels. The background consists of light green and white pixels forming a blurred gradient pattern. Overlaid in four lines of blue text are the words 'never', 'regret the', 'good', and 'times<3'. Each letter is rendered with blocky pixelation typical of early 2000s digital graphics. The final line includes the characters 'imes' followed by '<3', where '<3' represents a smiley face symbol using angle brackets and a number three.

Description

  • Pixelated blue text on a greenish pixelated background reads 'never regret the good times' with a smiley face.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071230090529222271060

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • never regret the good times smiley
  • blue pixelated text green background
  • times<3 emoji
  • low resolution digital graphic nostalgia

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • never
  • regret the
  • good
  • times<3

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • greenish background
  • pixelated style
  • low resolution
  • text: never regret the good times<3
  • <3 as smiley face

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071230090529222271060
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
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 15:07 UTC
Archive ID
e3b84d2a842b87c8
SHA-256
e3b84d2a842b87c8b9de60383b1d6677ad51b8de822bde808fd435f77a0cf24e
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Assessed
July 31, 2026 at 06:01 UTC
Run
1249
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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July 23, 2026 at 19:55 UTC
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Pixelated blue text on a greenish pixelated background reads 'never regret the good times' with a smiley face.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 05:55 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,627 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 711

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • positive (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text rendering (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital graphic (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • green
  • white

Composition

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  • four lines of text stacked vertically
  • background gradient with no distinct shapes

Dense Caption

The image is a static, low-resolution digital graphic composed of square pixels. The background consists of light green and white pixels forming a blurred gradient pattern. Overlaid in four lines of blue text are the words 'never', 'regret the', 'good', and 'times<3'. Each letter is rendered with blocky pixelation typical of early 2000s digital graphics. The final line includes the characters 'imes' followed by '<3', where '<3' represents a smiley face symbol using angle brackets and a number three.

Description

  • Pixelated blue text on a greenish pixelated background reads 'never regret the good times' with a smiley face.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071230090529222271060

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • positive
  • sentimental

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • never regret the good times smiley
  • blue pixelated text green background
  • times<3 emoji
  • low resolution digital graphic nostalgia

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution digital graphic
  • blocky text rendering

Visible Text

  • never
  • regret the
  • good
  • times<3

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • greenish background
  • pixelated style
  • low resolution
  • text: never regret the good times<3
  • <3 as smiley face
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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
20071230090529222271060
Archive entry
20071230090529222271060.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 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#20071230090529222271060.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071230090529222271060.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016