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Green pixelated text on four distinct background colors arranged in a

Green pixelated text on four distinct background colors arranged in a. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to Mid-2…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four
  • identical text across all

Dense Caption

Four panels display identical green pixelated text: "i made a buddy icon" and "wat now?". Top-left panel has black background; top-right has gray background; bottom-left has white background; bottom-right has dark gray background. Text uses lowercase letters with no punctuation, rendered in blocky 8-bit style across all panels.

Description

  • Green pixelated text on four distinct background colors arranged in a

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
  • 2008041020054698985240

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green pixelated text buddy icon
  • black gray white dark gray backgrounds
  • i made a buddy icon wat now

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Green pixelated text on four distinct background colors arranged in a 2x2 grid layout.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: identical text across all panels
  • quarantined composition: four panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: i made a buddy icon wat now 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • i made a buddy icon
  • wat now?

Wordwall

  • green pixelated text
  • black background
  • gray background
  • white background
  • dark gray background
  • "i made a buddy icon"
  • "wat now?"

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008041020054698985240
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
745 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/28/28eddc8ef0edbf81f7039f9500445eb1afa449295e72686288ffd2659c26c3b4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC
Archive ID
28eddc8ef0edbf81
SHA-256
28eddc8ef0edbf81f7039f9500445eb1afa449295e72686288ffd2659c26c3b4
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:26 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097675

OpenAI category scores

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Green pixelated text on four distinct background colors arranged in a

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 02:03 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,684 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,105, response 622

Review tags

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  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • green
  • black
  • gray
  • white
  • dark gray

Composition

  • four
  • identical text across all

Dense Caption

Four panels display identical green pixelated text: "i made a buddy icon" and "wat now?". Top-left panel has black background; top-right has gray background; bottom-left has white background; bottom-right has dark gray background. Text uses lowercase letters with no punctuation, rendered in blocky 8-bit style across all panels.

Description

  • Green pixelated text on four distinct background colors arranged in a

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
  • 2008041020054698985240

Mood

  • playful
  • minimalist

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green pixelated text buddy icon
  • black gray white dark gray backgrounds
  • i made a buddy icon wat now

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Green pixelated text on four distinct background colors arranged in a 2x2 grid layout.
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Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • blocky
  • text-only

Visible Text

  • i made a buddy icon
  • wat now?

Wordwall

  • green pixelated text
  • black background
  • gray background
  • white background
  • dark gray background
  • "i made a buddy icon"
  • "wat now?"
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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
2008041020054698985240
Archive entry
2008041020054698985240.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 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#2008041020054698985240.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008041020054698985240.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016