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Pixelated text in orange on red, purple, and blue quadrants with repeated phrases.

Pixelated text in orange on red, purple, and blue quadrants with repeated phrases. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-20…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text centered in each quadrant

Dense Caption

The image consists of four equal-sized quadrants: top-left is solid red background with orange pixelated text reading "me crank why me roll"; top-right is solid purple background with identical orange pixelated text; bottom-left is solid blue background with identical orange pixelated text; bottom-right is solid purple background with identical orange pixelated text. All text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital displays.

Description

  • Pixelated text in orange on red, purple, and blue quadrants with repeated phrases.

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
  • 20071101172028641301014

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four quadrant pixel art
  • orange text red purple blue backgrounds
  • repeated 'me crank why me roll' phrases

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Visible Text

  • me crank why me roll

Wordwall

  • four quadrants
  • red background
  • purple background
  • blue background
  • orange pixelated text
  • repeated phrases
  • blocky font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071101172028641301014
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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/11/11c8536611c3e593fa27143772cd07cb3540e9f4108485d4c89830479a89361e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
11c8536611c3e593
SHA-256
11c8536611c3e593fa27143772cd07cb3540e9f4108485d4c89830479a89361e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:02 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088847

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text in orange on red, purple, and blue quadrants with repeated phrases.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 14:13 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,594 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 629

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital art (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • purple
  • blue
  • orange

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text centered in each quadrant

Dense Caption

The image consists of four equal-sized quadrants: top-left is solid red background with orange pixelated text reading "me crank why me roll"; top-right is solid purple background with identical orange pixelated text; bottom-left is solid blue background with identical orange pixelated text; bottom-right is solid purple background with identical orange pixelated text. All text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital displays.

Description

  • Pixelated text in orange on red, purple, and blue quadrants with repeated phrases.

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
  • 20071101172028641301014

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four quadrant pixel art
  • orange text red purple blue backgrounds
  • repeated 'me crank why me roll' phrases

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution digital art

Visible Text

  • me crank why me roll

Wordwall

  • four quadrants
  • red background
  • purple background
  • blue background
  • orange pixelated text
  • repeated phrases
  • blocky font
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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
20071101172028641301014
Archive entry
20071101172028641301014.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#20071101172028641301014.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071101172028641301014.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016