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Four identical pixelated text displays of 'TEARS' on a cyan background with white dots, arranged in a pattern

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Four identical pixelated text displays of 'TEARS' on a cyan background with white dots, arranged in a pattern

Four identical pixelated text displays of 'TEARS' on a cyan background with white dots, arranged in a pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; four identical static frames of text on a patterned background.

Composition

  • symmetrical arrangement
  • quadrant placement

Dense Caption

Cyan background features evenly spaced small white square dots. Four instances of the word 'TEARS' appear in black pixelated block letters: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right positions. Each text instance uses identical font style with visible pixelation. No animation or motion changes observed across frames. Text is horizontally centered within each quadrant. Background pattern remains consistent throughout all views.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated text displays of 'TEARS' on a cyan background with white dots, arranged in a pattern

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
  • 2008121216362572385238

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan white dot 'TEARS' pixel art
  • four 'TEARS' cyan
  • pixelated 'TEARS' cyan dots
  • black text cyan background white squares

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical pixelated text displays of 'TEARS' on a cyan background with white dots, arranged in a 2x2 grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid composition
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated 'TEARS' cyan dots 2x2
  • quarantined retrieval: four 'TEARS' cyan grid

Visible Text

  • TEARS

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • white square dots
  • four 'TEARS' instances
  • black pixelated text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008121216362572385238
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
657 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fb/fb0bfd9c30777f1527841842e6f71d0e05237b7cc3cb9a6ab32f8d2d19f7e71d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
fb0bfd9c30777f15
SHA-256
fb0bfd9c30777f1527841842e6f71d0e05237b7cc3cb9a6ab32f8d2d19f7e71d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:08 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084397

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Four identical pixelated text displays of 'TEARS' on a cyan background with white dots, arranged in a pattern

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 13:26 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,534 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 580

Review tags

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  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; four identical static frames of text on a patterned background.

Colors

  • cyan
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • symmetrical arrangement
  • quadrant placement

Dense Caption

Cyan background features evenly spaced small white square dots. Four instances of the word 'TEARS' appear in black pixelated block letters: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right positions. Each text instance uses identical font style with visible pixelation. No animation or motion changes observed across frames. Text is horizontally centered within each quadrant. Background pattern remains consistent throughout all views.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated text displays of 'TEARS' on a cyan background with white dots, arranged in a pattern

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
  • 2008121216362572385238

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan white dot 'TEARS' pixel art
  • four 'TEARS' cyan
  • pixelated 'TEARS' cyan dots
  • black text cyan background white squares

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical pixelated text displays of 'TEARS' on a cyan background with white dots, arranged in a 2x2 grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid composition
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated 'TEARS' cyan dots 2x2
  • quarantined retrieval: four 'TEARS' cyan grid

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  • pixel art
  • blocky font
  • composition

Visible Text

  • TEARS

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • white square dots
  • four 'TEARS' instances
  • black pixelated 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
2008121216362572385238
Archive entry
2008121216362572385238.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#2008121216362572385238.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008121216362572385238.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016