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Pixelated text reads "this icon will play tricks on you" over a rainbow-colored, swirling, psychedelic background with circular patterns.

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Pixelated text reads "this icon will play tricks on you" over a rainbow-colored, swirling, psychedelic background with circular patterns.

Pixelated text reads "this icon will play tricks on you" over a rainbow-colored, swirling, psychedelic background with circular patterns. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text centered
  • background fills entire frame
  • circular patterns in background

Dense Caption

The image displays four lines of pixelated text: "this icon" on the top line, "will play" on the second line, "tricks on" on the third line, and "you" on the bottom line. Each line of text is rendered in white with a black outline on a black rectangular background. The background consists of a rainbow-colored, swirling, psychedelic pattern with circular patterns in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple hues. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads "this icon will play tricks on you" over a rainbow-colored, swirling, psychedelic background with circular 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
  • 2007-2016
  • 200809302004161046298572

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text tricks on you
  • rainbow background psychedelic
  • text will play tricks
  • static buddy icon text
  • buddy icon tricks on you
  • rainbow swirl text
  • text icon play tricks
  • buddy icon rainbow background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or pixelated

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • this icon
  • will play
  • tricks on
  • you

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • rainbow background
  • swirling patterns
  • circular designs
  • white text on black
  • four lines of text
  • no animation
  • static image
  • text reads "this icon will play tricks on you"

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809302004161046298572
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f8/f8647ee779da6e8911340608c878f0784a8d736914877ddeb115b32c64cc7cdd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
f8647ee779da6e89
SHA-256
f8647ee779da6e8911340608c878f0784a8d736914877ddeb115b32c64cc7cdd
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:06 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.062565

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text reads "this icon will play tricks on you" over a rainbow-colored, swirling, psychedelic background with circular patterns.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:26 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,864 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 840

Review tags

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  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • surreal (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • psychedelic (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • orange
  • yellow
  • green
  • blue
  • purple
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • text centered
  • background fills entire frame
  • circular patterns in background

Dense Caption

The image displays four lines of pixelated text: "this icon" on the top line, "will play" on the second line, "tricks on" on the third line, and "you" on the bottom line. Each line of text is rendered in white with a black outline on a black rectangular background. The background consists of a rainbow-colored, swirling, psychedelic pattern with circular patterns in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple hues. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads "this icon will play tricks on you" over a rainbow-colored, swirling, psychedelic background with circular 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
  • 2007-2016
  • 200809302004161046298572

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • surreal

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text tricks on you
  • rainbow background psychedelic
  • text will play tricks
  • static buddy icon text
  • buddy icon tricks on you
  • rainbow swirl text
  • text icon play tricks
  • buddy icon rainbow background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or pixelated

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • psychedelic
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • this icon
  • will play
  • tricks on
  • you

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • rainbow background
  • swirling patterns
  • circular designs
  • white text on black
  • four lines of text
  • no animation
  • static image
  • text reads "this icon will play tricks on 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
200809302004161046298572
Archive entry
200809302004161046298572.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#200809302004161046298572.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809302004161046298572.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016