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Pixelated text displays 'waiting waiting waiting on the world 2 change' over a green grassy base on black background, with visible animation changes across observations.

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Pixelated text displays 'waiting waiting waiting on the world 2 change' over a green grassy base on black background, with visible animation changes across observations.

Pixelated text displays 'waiting waiting waiting on the world 2 change' over a green grassy base on black background, with visible animation changes across observations. Animated…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • grass base shifts

Animation Summary

  • The green grass base animates with visible shifts across observations while the text remains static.

Composition

  • text above grass base
  • centered text
  • consistent layout

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated text-based animation with white text on a black background. The text reads 'waiting' repeated twice, followed by 'waiting on the world', then '2 change'. Below the text is a green pixelated grassy base. The animation shows changes in the green grassy base across observations, with the grass appearing to shift or animate. The text remains consistent across all observations. The image has a retro digital aesthetic typical of early internet graphics.

Description

Pixelated text displays 'waiting waiting waiting on the world 2 change' over a green grassy base on black background, with visible animation changes across observations.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text waiting on the world
  • green grass base animation
  • retro digital text animation
  • 2 change text animation
  • waiting waiting animation
  • text animation grass base
  • pixelated animation green grass
  • waiting on the world 2 change

Visible Text

  • waiting
  • waiting on
  • the world
  • 2 change

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • white text on black
  • green grass base
  • animation changes
  • retro digital aesthetic
  • text reads 'waiting waiting waiting on the world 2 change'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080616113928820026799
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080616113952902093577
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
691 bytes
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fe/fe6a1c555d9aa9e45c66503af0280e339e832d2c1467bb727a3974c50a17341d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC
Archive ID
fe6a1c555d9aa9e4
SHA-256
fe6a1c555d9aa9e45c66503af0280e339e832d2c1467bb727a3974c50a17341d
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 26, 2026 at 00:07 UTC
Run
1191
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000602

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:57 UTC
Run
107
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Pixelated text displays 'waiting waiting waiting on the world 2 change' over a green grassy base on black background, with visible animation changes across observations.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 06:20 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,587 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,211, response 743

Review tags

  • grass base animates (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • static (mood, 0.80)
  • grass base (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • grass base shifts (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • grass base animates

Animation

  • grass base shifts

Animation Summary

  • The green grass base animates with visible shifts across observations while the text remains static.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • green

Composition

  • text above grass base
  • centered text
  • consistent layout

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated text-based animation with white text on a black background. The text reads 'waiting' repeated twice, followed by 'waiting on the world', then '2 change'. Below the text is a green pixelated grassy base. The animation shows changes in the green grassy base across observations, with the grass appearing to shift or animate. The text remains consistent across all observations. The image has a retro digital aesthetic typical of early internet graphics.

Description

Pixelated text displays 'waiting waiting waiting on the world 2 change' over a green grassy base on black background, with visible animation changes across observations.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • static

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text waiting on the world
  • green grass base animation
  • retro digital text animation
  • 2 change text animation
  • waiting waiting animation
  • text animation grass base
  • pixelated animation green grass
  • waiting on the world 2 change

Objects

  • text
  • grass base

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • waiting
  • waiting on
  • the world
  • 2 change

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • white text on black
  • green grass base
  • animation changes
  • retro digital aesthetic
  • text reads 'waiting waiting waiting on the world 2 change'
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Full source records (2)

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
20080616113928820026799
Archive entry
20080616113928820026799.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 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#20080616113928820026799.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080616113928820026799.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20080616113952902093577
Archive entry
20080616113952902093577.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 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#20080616113952902093577.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080616113952902093577.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016