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Green background with repeating white text and green heart shapes, displaying 'Where were you: were you? When every thing was falling apart' in pixelated font.

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Green background with repeating white text and green heart shapes, displaying 'Where were you: were you? When every thing was falling apart' in pixelated font.

Green background with repeating white text and green heart shapes, displaying 'Where were you: were you? When every thing was falling apart' in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with repeating text and heart shapes.

Composition

  • like text arrangement
  • repeating text
  • heart shapes as background elements

Dense Caption

Green background with repeating white pixelated text reading 'Where were you: were you? When every thing was falling apart' in multiple rows. Green heart shapes appear as background elements, some overlapping text. Text repeats across the image in a grid-like arrangement. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with limited color palette. The text is consistently styled with blocky, low-resolution letterforms. The heart shapes are semi-transparent and vary slightly in size and position.

Description

Green background with repeating white text and green heart shapes, displaying 'Where were you: were you? When every thing was falling apart' in pixelated font.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • 200901271519371679998081

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background white text hearts
  • where were you text
  • pixel art retro digital
  • repeating text falling apart
  • buddy icon text hearts
  • green heart shapes white text
  • retro digital text hearts
  • where were you falling apart

Objects

  • heart shapes

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no cropping observed
  • quarantined wordwall: grid-like text arrangement
  • quarantined composition: repeating text rows
  • quarantined composition: grid-like text arrangement

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Subjects

  • heart shapes

Visible Text

  • Where were you: were you? When every thing was falling apart

Wordwall

  • green background
  • white pixelated text
  • green heart shapes
  • repeating text
  • retro digital aesthetic
  • blocky letterforms
  • semi-transparent hearts
  • like text arrangement
  • limited color palette
  • text repeats 'Where were you'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901271519371679998081
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 15:50 UTC
Archive ID
eb5d0cded18df3cf
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:59 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.121410

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Green background with repeating white text and green heart shapes, displaying 'Where were you: were you? When every thing was falling apart' in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 20:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,219 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 795

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible motion (other, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart shapes (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with repeating text and heart shapes.

Colors

  • green
  • white

Composition

  • like text arrangement
  • repeating text
  • heart shapes as background elements

Dense Caption

Green background with repeating white pixelated text reading 'Where were you: were you? When every thing was falling apart' in multiple rows. Green heart shapes appear as background elements, some overlapping text. Text repeats across the image in a grid-like arrangement. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with limited color palette. The text is consistently styled with blocky, low-resolution letterforms. The heart shapes are semi-transparent and vary slightly in size and position.

Description

Green background with repeating white text and green heart shapes, displaying 'Where were you: were you? When every thing was falling apart' in pixelated font.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • 200901271519371679998081

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • melancholic

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  • where were you text
  • pixel art retro digital
  • repeating text falling apart
  • buddy icon text hearts
  • green heart shapes white text
  • retro digital text hearts
  • where were you falling apart

Objects

  • heart shapes

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no cropping observed
  • quarantined wordwall: grid-like text arrangement
  • quarantined composition: repeating text rows
  • quarantined composition: grid-like text arrangement

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • heart shapes

Visible Text

  • Where were you: were you? When every thing was falling apart

Wordwall

  • green background
  • white pixelated text
  • green heart shapes
  • repeating text
  • retro digital aesthetic
  • blocky letterforms
  • semi-transparent hearts
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  • text repeats 'Where were you'
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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
200901271519371679998081
Archive entry
200901271519371679998081.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 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#200901271519371679998081.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901271519371679998081.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016