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Blue pixelated text on black background with white cursor blinking over 'bloke' in repeated phrase.

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Blue pixelated text on black background with white cursor blinking over 'bloke' in repeated phrase.

Blue pixelated text on black background with white cursor blinking over 'bloke' in repeated phrase. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • cursor blinks over third character of second 'bloke'

Animation Summary

  • Cursor blinks over third character of second 'bloke' in repeating blue text.

Composition

  • centered text
  • repeating phrase
  • single line of text

Dense Caption

Black background displays repeating blue pixelated lowercase text 'i love bloke i love bloke'. A white pixelated cursor blinks over the third character of the second 'bloke', replacing it. The cursor is a vertical line with a small horizontal top segment, typical of early digital interfaces. Text uses a monospaced font style common in retro computing environments.

Description

  • Blue pixelated text on black background with white cursor blinking over 'bloke' in repeated phrase.

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
  • 200808121902111793506016

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pixelated cursor blinking
  • repeating i love bloke text
  • black background monospaced font

Visible Text

  • i love bloke i love bloke

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • repeating phrase
  • cursor blinking

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808121902111793506016
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
776 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ff/ffff5392917e2322b0d2775c3c12cb915e837951c4ef583059f678bc861dcd54.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 UTC
Archive ID
ffff5392917e2322
SHA-256
ffff5392917e2322b0d2775c3c12cb915e837951c4ef583059f678bc861dcd54
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:10 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.120994

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue pixelated text on black background with white cursor blinking over 'bloke' in repeated phrase.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 18:27 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,765 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 621

Review tags

  • blinking cursor (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cursor (object, 0.80)
  • monospaced font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro computing (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • blinking cursor

Animation

  • cursor blinks over third character of second 'bloke'

Animation Summary

  • Cursor blinks over third character of second 'bloke' in repeating blue text.

Colors

  • black
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • centered text
  • repeating phrase
  • single line of text

Dense Caption

Black background displays repeating blue pixelated lowercase text 'i love bloke i love bloke'. A white pixelated cursor blinks over the third character of the second 'bloke', replacing it. The cursor is a vertical line with a small horizontal top segment, typical of early digital interfaces. Text uses a monospaced font style common in retro computing environments.

Description

  • Blue pixelated text on black background with white cursor blinking over 'bloke' in repeated phrase.

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
  • 200808121902111793506016

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pixelated cursor blinking
  • repeating i love bloke text
  • black background monospaced font

Objects

  • cursor

Style

  • pixelated
  • monospaced font
  • retro computing

Visible Text

  • i love bloke i love bloke

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • repeating phrase
  • cursor blinking
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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
200808121902111793506016
Archive entry
200808121902111793506016.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 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#200808121902111793506016.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808121902111793506016.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016