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Black background with white stars and repeated pink text "Running keeps me sane." in a pixelated font.

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Black background with white stars and repeated pink text "Running keeps me sane." in a pixelated font.

Black background with white stars and repeated pink text "Running keeps me sane." in a pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two identical horizontal text blocks
  • star scatter pattern
  • centered text alignment

Dense Caption

Black background contains 14 white four-pointed star shapes. Text repeats twice: "Running keeps me sane." in bright pink, blocky, pixelated lettering. Each instance of the phrase is horizontally centered with stars scattered around it. The text and stars are static; no animation changes observed.

Description

  • Black background with white stars and repeated pink text "Running keeps me sane." in a 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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080526220923478332407

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • running keeps me sane pink text
  • black background white stars pixel art
  • repeated phrase buddy icon
  • text-based star pattern

Visible Text

  • Running keeps me sane.

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white stars
  • pink text
  • running keeps me sane
  • pixelated font
  • repeated phrase

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080526220923478332407
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 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 15:28 UTC
Archive ID
f955e3162b6a704d
SHA-256
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Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 19:41 UTC
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Black background with white stars and repeated pink text "Running keeps me sane." in a pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 19:37 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,609 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 589

Review tags

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  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • quirky (mood, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • black
  • white
  • bright pink

Composition

  • two identical horizontal text blocks
  • star scatter pattern
  • centered text alignment

Dense Caption

Black background contains 14 white four-pointed star shapes. Text repeats twice: "Running keeps me sane." in bright pink, blocky, pixelated lettering. Each instance of the phrase is horizontally centered with stars scattered around it. The text and stars are static; no animation changes observed.

Description

  • Black background with white stars and repeated pink text "Running keeps me sane." in a 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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080526220923478332407

Mood

  • playful
  • quirky

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  • running keeps me sane pink text
  • black background white stars pixel art
  • repeated phrase buddy icon
  • text-based star pattern

Objects

  • stars

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
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Wordwall

  • black background
  • white stars
  • pink text
  • running keeps me sane
  • pixelated font
  • repeated phrase
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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
20080526220923478332407
Archive entry
20080526220923478332407.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 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#20080526220923478332407.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080526220923478332407.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016