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Red pixelated text on a grayscale cloudy background, with visible animation changes between frames.

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Red pixelated text on a grayscale cloudy background, with visible animation changes between frames.

Red pixelated text on a grayscale cloudy background, with visible animation changes between frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text content changes between frames

Animation Summary

  • Text content changes between frames while background remains static.

Composition

  • centered text
  • static background

Dense Caption

The image displays red pixelated text over a grayscale cloudy background. In the left frame, the text reads "Rock Bottoms Where We Live... and still in them... backs breaking under tension"; in the right frame, it reads "We dig these trenches... to bury ourselves." The animation changes only the visible text content between frames while maintaining identical background composition.

Description

  • Red pixelated text on a grayscale cloudy background, with visible animation changes between frames.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070912163540869789412

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated text grayscale cloudy
  • text changes frame to frame
  • somber melancholic mood
  • trenches bury ourselves

Visible Text

  • Rock Bottoms Where We Live...
  • and still in them...
  • backs breaking under tension
  • We dig these trenches...
  • to bury ourselves

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • grayscale cloudy background
  • text changes between frames

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070912163540869789412
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fa/facb570ad8b41f192c7d00c7ac020a80ab692f1ed17421b5ffb84950d84b2f2d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC
Archive ID
facb570ad8b41f19
SHA-256
facb570ad8b41f192c7d00c7ac020a80ab692f1ed17421b5ffb84950d84b2f2d
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 01:37 UTC
Run
1201
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.079627

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:31 UTC
Run
1139
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:08 UTC
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1140
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Overall score
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Red pixelated text on a grayscale cloudy background, with visible animation changes between frames.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 01:30 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,551 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 621

Review tags

  • grayscale (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • somber (mood, 0.80)
  • text content changes between frames (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • text content changes between frames

Animation Summary

  • Text content changes between frames while background remains static.

Colors

  • red
  • grayscale

Composition

  • centered text
  • static background

Dense Caption

The image displays red pixelated text over a grayscale cloudy background. In the left frame, the text reads "Rock Bottoms Where We Live... and still in them... backs breaking under tension"; in the right frame, it reads "We dig these trenches... to bury ourselves." The animation changes only the visible text content between frames while maintaining identical background composition.

Description

  • Red pixelated text on a grayscale cloudy background, with visible animation changes between frames.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070912163540869789412

Mood

  • somber
  • melancholic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated text grayscale cloudy
  • text changes frame to frame
  • somber melancholic mood
  • trenches bury ourselves

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • Rock Bottoms Where We Live...
  • and still in them...
  • backs breaking under tension
  • We dig these trenches...
  • to bury ourselves

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • grayscale cloudy background
  • text changes between frames
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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
20070912163540869789412
Archive entry
20070912163540869789412.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 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#20070912163540869789412.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070912163540869789412.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016