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Text reading "Lindsey Made Me Change My Icon" appears on a background alternating between cyan and white checkered patterns and cyan and white starburst patterns.

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Text reading "Lindsey Made Me Change My Icon" appears on a background alternating between cyan and white checkered patterns and cyan and white starburst patterns.

Text reading "Lindsey Made Me Change My Icon" appears on a background alternating between cyan and white checkered patterns and cyan and white starburst patterns. Animated 48×48 G…

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Animation

  • background alternates between checkerboard and starburst patterns

Animation Summary

The background alternates between a cyan and white checkerboard pattern and a cyan and white starburst pattern while the text remains static.

Composition

  • centered text
  • alternating background patterns

Dense Caption

The image displays the text "Lindsey Made Me Change My Icon" in black, pixelated font across four rows. The background alternates between two distinct patterns: one is a cyan and white checkerboard with square tiles, the other is a cyan and white starburst pattern composed of overlapping diamond shapes. Both backgrounds feature high-contrast cyan (hex #00E5D1) and white pixels. The text remains static across all visible frames.

Description

Text reading "Lindsey Made Me Change My Icon" appears on a background alternating between cyan and white checkered patterns and cyan and white starburst patterns.

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
  • 200802171913361078621728

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Lindsey Made Me Change My Icon
  • cyan white checkerboard icon
  • cyan white starburst icon
  • pixelated text icon
  • static text animation background

Visible Text

  • Lindsey
  • Made Me
  • Change
  • My
  • Icon

Wordwall

  • text: Lindsey Made Me Change My Icon
  • background: cyan and white checkerboard
  • background: cyan and white starburst
  • font: black pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802171913361078621728
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e9/e9981558a32d37e1db0d1a2799590b796b9f8cbc2cd6c82d61f3796fa00b837d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC
Archive ID
e9981558a32d37e1
SHA-256
e9981558a32d37e1db0d1a2799590b796b9f8cbc2cd6c82d61f3796fa00b837d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:59 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.130897

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Text reading "Lindsey Made Me Change My Icon" appears on a background alternating between cyan and white checkered patterns and cyan and white starburst patterns.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 23:26 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,591 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 684

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • background alternates between checkerboard and starburst patterns

Animation Summary

The background alternates between a cyan and white checkerboard pattern and a cyan and white starburst pattern while the text remains static.

Colors

  • cyan
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • centered text
  • alternating background patterns

Dense Caption

The image displays the text "Lindsey Made Me Change My Icon" in black, pixelated font across four rows. The background alternates between two distinct patterns: one is a cyan and white checkerboard with square tiles, the other is a cyan and white starburst pattern composed of overlapping diamond shapes. Both backgrounds feature high-contrast cyan (hex #00E5D1) and white pixels. The text remains static across all visible frames.

Description

Text reading "Lindsey Made Me Change My Icon" appears on a background alternating between cyan and white checkered patterns and cyan and white starburst patterns.

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
  • 200802171913361078621728

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Lindsey Made Me Change My Icon
  • cyan white checkerboard icon
  • cyan white starburst icon
  • pixelated text icon
  • static text animation background

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • Lindsey
  • Made Me
  • Change
  • My
  • Icon

Wordwall

  • text: Lindsey Made Me Change My Icon
  • background: cyan and white checkerboard
  • background: cyan and white starburst
  • font: black pixelated
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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
200802171913361078621728
Archive entry
200802171913361078621728.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 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#200802171913361078621728.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802171913361078621728.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016