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Pixelated text repeats across a black background with pink star and dotted line accents.

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Pixelated text repeats across a black background with pink star and dotted line accents.

Pixelated text repeats across a black background with pink star and dotted line accents. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, L…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical arrangement
  • corner accents

Dense Caption

Black background features repeated white pixelated text 'when you look me in the eyes' arranged in three rows of three columns. Pink stars appear at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right corners; additional small pink stars are scattered near text lines. Dotted purple lines connect corner stars to adjacent text areas. Text is rendered in a retro 8-bit style with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Pixelated text repeats across a black background with pink star and dotted line accents.

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
  • 200802221316231107591791

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • when you look me in the eyes
  • pixelated text
  • pink star accents
  • retro 8-bit style

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: three rows of three columns
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid

Visible Text

  • when you look me in the eyes

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'when you look me in the eyes'
  • three of three
  • pink stars at corners
  • small pink stars near text
  • dotted purple lines
  • retro 8-bit style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802221316231107591791
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
649 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f4/f45cd5c0fa465caf47b4a9fc8aa61c34d4d6d6b3914809f4571b855ba7d4ad0c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Archive ID
f45cd5c0fa465caf
SHA-256
f45cd5c0fa465caf47b4a9fc8aa61c34d4d6d6b3914809f4571b855ba7d4ad0c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:04 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.099480

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text repeats across a black background with pink star and dotted line accents.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 02:06 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,946 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,166, response 633

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pink
  • purple

Composition

  • symmetrical arrangement
  • corner accents

Dense Caption

Black background features repeated white pixelated text 'when you look me in the eyes' arranged in three rows of three columns. Pink stars appear at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right corners; additional small pink stars are scattered near text lines. Dotted purple lines connect corner stars to adjacent text areas. Text is rendered in a retro 8-bit style with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Pixelated text repeats across a black background with pink star and dotted line accents.

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
  • 200802221316231107591791

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • when you look me in the eyes
  • pixelated text
  • pink star accents
  • retro 8-bit style

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: three rows of three columns
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro 8-bit
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • when you look me in the eyes

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'when you look me in the eyes'
  • three of three
  • pink stars at corners
  • small pink stars near text
  • dotted purple lines
  • retro 8-bit style
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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
200802221316231107591791
Archive entry
200802221316231107591791.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 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#200802221316231107591791.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802221316231107591791.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016