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Pixelated image with white text reading "block is the new pink is the new block" over a multicolored abstract background of dark blue, pink, and light green hues.

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Pixelated image with white text reading "block is the new pink is the new block" over a multicolored abstract background of dark blue, pink, and light green hues.

Pixelated image with white text reading "block is the new pink is the new block" over a multicolored abstract background of dark blue, pink, and light green hues. 48×48 GIF AIM bu…

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Source terms

Composition

  • centered text layout
  • horizontal color banding
  • no distinct figures or objects

Dense Caption

The icon features pixelated white text in a retro digital font arranged across five lines: "block", "is the", "new pink", "is the", "new block". The background consists of a blurred abstract composition with dominant colors including deep navy blue, magenta-pink streaks, and teal-green gradients. Pixelation creates soft edges between color zones without distinct shapes or figures. Text is centered horizontally across all lines. No additional subjects, objects, or symbols are visible beyond the text and abstract background.

Description

Pixelated image with white text reading "block is the new pink is the new block" over a multicolored abstract background of dark blue, pink, and light green hues.

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
  • 20071107132921664735066

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • block is the new pink
  • pixelated text icon
  • magenta-pink abstract background
  • teal-green color gradients

Visible Text

  • block is the new pink is the new block

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • five-line arrangement
  • dark blue background
  • magenta-pink streaks
  • teal-green gradients
  • centered horizontal alignment

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071107132921664735066
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/18/1891956ecdc8c45303f60b994aca6e9b02c2d2596da7cb17056bbce45b27b257.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC
Archive ID
1891956ecdc8c453
SHA-256
1891956ecdc8c45303f60b994aca6e9b02c2d2596da7cb17056bbce45b27b257
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:09 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076059

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image with white text reading "block is the new pink is the new block" over a multicolored abstract background of dark blue, pink, and light green hues.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,020 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 662

Review tags

  • deep navy blue (color, 0.80)
  • magenta pink (color, 0.80)
  • teal green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • abstract background (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated digital art (style, 0.80)
  • retro font (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • deep navy blue
  • magenta-pink
  • teal-green
  • white

Composition

  • centered text layout
  • horizontal color banding
  • no distinct figures or objects

Dense Caption

The icon features pixelated white text in a retro digital font arranged across five lines: "block", "is the", "new pink", "is the", "new block". The background consists of a blurred abstract composition with dominant colors including deep navy blue, magenta-pink streaks, and teal-green gradients. Pixelation creates soft edges between color zones without distinct shapes or figures. Text is centered horizontally across all lines. No additional subjects, objects, or symbols are visible beyond the text and abstract background.

Description

Pixelated image with white text reading "block is the new pink is the new block" over a multicolored abstract background of dark blue, pink, and light green hues.

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
  • 20071107132921664735066

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • block is the new pink
  • pixelated text icon
  • magenta-pink abstract background
  • teal-green color gradients

Style

  • pixelated digital art
  • retro font
  • abstract background

Visible Text

  • block is the new pink is the new block

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • five-line arrangement
  • dark blue background
  • magenta-pink streaks
  • teal-green gradients
  • centered horizontal alignment
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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
20071107132921664735066
Archive entry
20071107132921664735066.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 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#20071107132921664735066.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071107132921664735066.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016