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Pixelated blue background with white geometric lines and purple text reading "i'm so BEAST BALLIN" in two identical vertical arrangements.

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Pixelated blue background with white geometric lines and purple text reading "i'm so BEAST BALLIN" in two identical vertical arrangements.

Pixelated blue background with white geometric lines and purple text reading "i'm so BEAST BALLIN" in two identical vertical arrangements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Composition

  • two identical vertical text blocks side-by-side
  • repeating background pattern

Dense Caption

The image displays a static pixel art composition on a bright cyan background featuring repeating white diamond-shaped line patterns. Two identical vertical blocks of purple pixelated text appear side-by-side: the top block reads "i'm", followed by "so", then "BEAST" (all caps), and finally "BALLIN" (all caps). The bottom block mirrors this exact arrangement with no visible differences between the two sections. Text uses a retro 8-bit font style, each character rendered as distinct pixels.

Description

  • Pixelated blue background with white geometric lines and purple text reading "i'm so BEAST BALLIN" in two identical vertical arrangements.

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
  • 200712151925181427212851

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i'm so beast ballin
  • cyan background white lines purple text
  • pixel art 8-bit font
  • two identical vertical blocks

Visible Text

  • i'm
  • so
  • BEAST
  • BALLIN

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • white diamond lines
  • purple text
  • i'm so BEAST BALLIN
  • 8-bit font
  • two identical vertical blocks

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712151925181427212851
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC
Archive ID
227a3a343bad0b3d
SHA-256
227a3a343bad0b3dd4ba2021a29347c84be16e6e26ad708b623e07cca4c34594
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Assessed
August 2, 2026 at 19:40 UTC
Run
1254
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Overall score
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Pixelated blue background with white geometric lines and purple text reading "i'm so BEAST BALLIN" in two identical vertical arrangements.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 02:19 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,626 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 637

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • white
  • purple

Composition

  • two identical vertical text blocks side-by-side
  • repeating background pattern

Dense Caption

The image displays a static pixel art composition on a bright cyan background featuring repeating white diamond-shaped line patterns. Two identical vertical blocks of purple pixelated text appear side-by-side: the top block reads "i'm", followed by "so", then "BEAST" (all caps), and finally "BALLIN" (all caps). The bottom block mirrors this exact arrangement with no visible differences between the two sections. Text uses a retro 8-bit font style, each character rendered as distinct pixels.

Description

  • Pixelated blue background with white geometric lines and purple text reading "i'm so BEAST BALLIN" in two identical vertical arrangements.

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
  • 200712151925181427212851

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i'm so beast ballin
  • cyan background white lines purple text
  • pixel art 8-bit font
  • two identical vertical blocks

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • retro

Visible Text

  • i'm
  • so
  • BEAST
  • BALLIN

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • white diamond lines
  • purple text
  • i'm so BEAST BALLIN
  • 8-bit font
  • two identical vertical blocks
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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
200712151925181427212851
Archive entry
200712151925181427212851.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 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#200712151925181427212851.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712151925181427212851.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016