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Four identical blue circular icons with cyan rings display the text "I woke Up with Hope but only found Tears" in black pixelated font.

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Four identical blue circular icons with cyan rings display the text "I woke Up with Hope but only found Tears" in black pixelated font.

Four identical blue circular icons with cyan rings display the text "I woke Up with Hope but only found Tears" in black pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations; all four views show identical static content.

Composition

  • centered text
  • concentric rings

Dense Caption

Four identical circular icons arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each icon has a solid blue background with three concentric cyan rings. Black pixelated text reads "I woke Up with Hope but only found Tears" in four lines. The text is centered within the cyan rings. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation. All four icons are visually identical with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical blue circular icons with cyan rings display the text "I woke Up with Hope but only found Tears" in black 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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090207170615700148064

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue cyan rings text I woke Up with Hope but only found Tears
  • pixel art text four identical icons
  • retro digital text blue background cyan rings
  • low resolution text four icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • All four observations show identical content; no visible animation changes
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: low resolution text four icons 2x2 grid

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

  • I woke
  • Up with
  • Hope but
  • only found
  • Tears

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • cyan rings
  • pixelated text
  • four identical icons
  • text: I woke Up with Hope but only found Tears
  • retro digital style
  • low resolution
  • concentric rings
  • centered text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090207170615700148064
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f9/f9f7c38ab246185849fff7367cb8fa284e03c185be51527d5bf2a3750566b172.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC
Archive ID
f9f7c38ab2461858
SHA-256
f9f7c38ab246185849fff7367cb8fa284e03c185be51527d5bf2a3750566b172
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:07 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073660

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.932701onnx/unsafe0.073660onnx/nsfw0.041769onnx/nsfl0.031891
Enrichment records (1)
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Four identical blue circular icons with cyan rings display the text "I woke Up with Hope but only found Tears" in black pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 22:00 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,118 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 857

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • somber (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations; all four views show identical static content.

Colors

  • blue
  • cyan
  • black

Composition

  • centered text
  • concentric rings

Dense Caption

Four identical circular icons arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each icon has a solid blue background with three concentric cyan rings. Black pixelated text reads "I woke Up with Hope but only found Tears" in four lines. The text is centered within the cyan rings. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation. All four icons are visually identical with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical blue circular icons with cyan rings display the text "I woke Up with Hope but only found Tears" in black 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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090207170615700148064

Mood

  • melancholic
  • somber

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue cyan rings text I woke Up with Hope but only found Tears
  • pixel art text four identical icons
  • retro digital text blue background cyan rings
  • low resolution text four icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • All four observations show identical content; no visible animation changes
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: low resolution text four icons 2x2 grid

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

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • low resolution

Visible Text

  • I woke
  • Up with
  • Hope but
  • only found
  • Tears

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • cyan rings
  • pixelated text
  • four identical icons
  • text: I woke Up with Hope but only found Tears
  • retro digital style
  • low resolution
  • concentric rings
  • centered text
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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
20090207170615700148064
Archive entry
20090207170615700148064.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 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#20090207170615700148064.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090207170615700148064.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016