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Pixelated text in pink and white within speech bubbles on a light blue background with vertical pink stripes.

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Pixelated text in pink and white within speech bubbles on a light blue background with vertical pink stripes.

Pixelated text in pink and white within speech bubbles on a light blue background with vertical pink stripes. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two speech bubbles stacked vertically
  • centered on light blue background with pink stripes

Dense Caption

The image displays two identical static frames side-by-side. Each frame features a light blue background with evenly spaced vertical pink stripes. Two pixelated speech bubbles are present: the top bubble contains 'I DRIVE MYSELF CRAZY...' in bright pink block letters, and the bottom bubble contains 'THINKIN' OF YOU.' also in bright pink block letters. Both speech bubbles have white outlines and jagged edges typical of early digital graphics. The text uses a pixelated font with no serifs or curves.

Description

  • Pixelated text in pink and white within speech bubbles on a light blue background with vertical pink stripes.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM buddy icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: gif
  • provenance era: Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: non-square icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy-icons-us
  • mdeb2d81cf1-IMBUDDY
  • buddyicons
  • m
  • aim-icons
  • gif
  • non-square icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink text speech bubbles light blue background
  • pixelated 'I DRIVE MYSELF CRAZY' 'THINKIN OF YOU'
  • retro digital pink stripes

Visible Text

  • I DRIVE MYSELF CRAZY...
  • THINKIN' OF YOU.

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • vertical pink stripes
  • two speech bubbles
  • pink block lettering
  • pixelated font
  • white bubble outlines
  • jagged bubble edges

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Added to archive
July 9, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures

Source title
mdeb2d81cf1-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / m
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:46 UTC

Original record Source download

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures Relaxed

Source title
mdeb2d81cf1-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / m
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 19:08 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 9, 2026
Relative path
icons/0c/0cc5885ae14862e19481fdb74f4a248c020854d7e875fa465a767a862a95d749.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 9, 2026 at 22:46 UTC
Archive ID
0cc5885ae14862e1
SHA-256
0cc5885ae14862e19481fdb74f4a248c020854d7e875fa465a767a862a95d749
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:56 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091044

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.909712onnx/unsafe0.091044onnx/nsfw0.047485onnx/nsfl0.043559
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated text in pink and white within speech bubbles on a light blue background with vertical pink stripes.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 06:19 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,994 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,128, response 663

Review tags

  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • two speech bubbles stacked vertically
  • centered on light blue background with pink stripes

Dense Caption

The image displays two identical static frames side-by-side. Each frame features a light blue background with evenly spaced vertical pink stripes. Two pixelated speech bubbles are present: the top bubble contains 'I DRIVE MYSELF CRAZY...' in bright pink block letters, and the bottom bubble contains 'THINKIN' OF YOU.' also in bright pink block letters. Both speech bubbles have white outlines and jagged edges typical of early digital graphics. The text uses a pixelated font with no serifs or curves.

Description

  • Pixelated text in pink and white within speech bubbles on a light blue background with vertical pink stripes.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM buddy icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: gif
  • provenance era: Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: non-square icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy-icons-us
  • mdeb2d81cf1-IMBUDDY
  • buddyicons
  • m
  • aim-icons
  • gif
  • non-square icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink text speech bubbles light blue background
  • pixelated 'I DRIVE MYSELF CRAZY' 'THINKIN OF YOU'
  • retro digital pink stripes

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky text

Visible Text

  • I DRIVE MYSELF CRAZY...
  • THINKIN' OF YOU.

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • vertical pink stripes
  • two speech bubbles
  • pink block lettering
  • pixelated font
  • white bubble outlines
  • jagged bubble edges
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 23:08 UTC
Run
30
Version
v3
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Full source records (2)
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures (wayback-buddy-icons-us-domain-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl
Category
buddyicons / m
Alt
mdeb2d81cf1-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:46 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl
Original: http://www.buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/m/mdeb2d81cf1-IMBUDDY.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20070112114259id_/http://www.buddy-icons.us:80/buddyicons/m/mdeb2d81cf1-IMBUDDY.gif 
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures Relaxed (wayback-buddy-icons-us-domain-gifs-relaxed)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl relaxed-size pass
Category
buddyicons / m
Alt
mdeb2d81cf1-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 19:08 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
relaxed-size AIM-era buddy-icon portal material, including narrow/tall and larger avatar-format GIF candidates
Original: http://www.buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/m/mdeb2d81cf1-IMBUDDY.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20070112114259id_/http://www.buddy-icons.us:80/buddyicons/m/mdeb2d81cf1-IMBUDDY.gif