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Black pixelated text on white background with jagged edges and partial letterforms.

Black pixelated text on white background with jagged edges and partial letterforms. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to M…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • no borders
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows a heavily pixelated black-and-white graphic of stylized text. The visible characters include 'T', 'e', 'p', 'h', 'u' in a distorted, fragmented style with uneven stroke widths. The letters are connected by irregular lines and have jagged edges due to low resolution. Some areas show partial letterforms or missing segments; the background is solid white.

Description

  • Black pixelated text on white background with jagged edges and partial letterforms.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text Tephu
  • black white jagged edges
  • fragmented stylized font
  • solid background text

Visible Text

  • Tephu

Visually Supported Entities

  • Tephu

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • black-and-white
  • jagged edges
  • fragmented characters
  • stylized font
  • solid white background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801201430131195617735
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/27/27066eef5c2b4100dc97b5c522be5d2f638dce4688a84f60b7ba2a6087010c71.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Archive ID
27066eef5c2b4100
SHA-256
27066eef5c2b4100dc97b5c522be5d2f638dce4688a84f60b7ba2a6087010c71
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 31, 2026 at 11:56 UTC
Run
1249
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000551

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000551falseself-harm0.000467falseharassment0.000094falseviolence/graphic0.000070falsesexual0.000047falseillicit0.000026falsehate0.000010falseharassment/threatening0.000010falseself-harm/intent0.000006falseself-harm/instructions0.000003falseillicit/violent0.000003falsesexual/minors0.000001falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:24 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.099428

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.900572onnx/unsafe0.099428onnx/nsfw0.057125onnx/nsfl0.042303
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black pixelated text on white background with jagged edges and partial letterforms.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 11:52 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,665 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 545

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • distorted (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stencil like (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered text
  • no borders
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows a heavily pixelated black-and-white graphic of stylized text. The visible characters include 'T', 'e', 'p', 'h', 'u' in a distorted, fragmented style with uneven stroke widths. The letters are connected by irregular lines and have jagged edges due to low resolution. Some areas show partial letterforms or missing segments; the background is solid white.

Description

  • Black pixelated text on white background with jagged edges and partial letterforms.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text Tephu
  • black white jagged edges
  • fragmented stylized font
  • solid background text

Style

  • pixelated
  • stencil-like
  • distorted

Visible Text

  • Tephu

Visually Supported Entities

  • Tephu

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • black-and-white
  • jagged edges
  • fragmented characters
  • stylized font
  • solid white background
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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
200801201430131195617735
Archive entry
200801201430131195617735.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 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#200801201430131195617735.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801201430131195617735.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016