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Static image with bright pink background and light purple geometric pattern, displaying four instances of blue text "WELCHY" in a

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Static image with bright pink background and light purple geometric pattern, displaying four instances of blue text "WELCHY" in a

Static image with bright pink background and light purple geometric pattern, displaying four instances of blue text "WELCHY" in a. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • quadrant layout
  • centered text in each quadrant

Dense Caption

Bright pink background features repeating light purple diamond-shaped lines forming a continuous geometric pattern. Four identical instances of the word "WELCHY" appear in solid blue pixelated font: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right positions. Each text instance is horizontally centered within its quadrant. The image has no visible motion or animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Static image with bright pink background and light purple geometric pattern, displaying four instances of blue text "WELCHY" 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071102134808873864355

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink purple blue text WELCHY
  • WELCHY pixelated text
  • blue text pink background geometric pattern
  • WELCHY

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Static image with bright pink background and light purple geometric pattern, displaying four instances of blue text "WELCHY" in a 2x2 grid.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid WELCHY
  • quarantined retrieval: WELCHY pixelated text grid

Visible Text

  • WELCHY

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • purple geometric pattern
  • blue text "WELCHY"
  • pixelated font

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071102134808873864355
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2a/2a53b8410173dbf0c600095f24df5459f2e8c2b6415c50dd9f7cf6a6c5926eff.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
2a53b8410173dbf0
SHA-256
2a53b8410173dbf0c600095f24df5459f2e8c2b6415c50dd9f7cf6a6c5926eff
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 14:26 UTC
Run
1201
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000050

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 25, 2026 at 22:18 UTC
Run
1191
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000565

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:28 UTC
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107
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.740791

OpenAI category scores

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Static image with bright pink background and light purple geometric pattern, displaying four instances of blue text "WELCHY" in a

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 14:22 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,756 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 657

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • geometric pattern (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • purple
  • blue

Composition

  • quadrant layout
  • centered text in each quadrant

Dense Caption

Bright pink background features repeating light purple diamond-shaped lines forming a continuous geometric pattern. Four identical instances of the word "WELCHY" appear in solid blue pixelated font: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right positions. Each text instance is horizontally centered within its quadrant. The image has no visible motion or animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Static image with bright pink background and light purple geometric pattern, displaying four instances of blue text "WELCHY" 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071102134808873864355

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink purple blue text WELCHY
  • WELCHY pixelated text
  • blue text pink background geometric pattern
  • WELCHY

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid WELCHY
  • quarantined retrieval: WELCHY pixelated text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • geometric pattern
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • WELCHY

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • purple geometric pattern
  • blue text "WELCHY"
  • pixelated 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
20071102134808873864355
Archive entry
20071102134808873864355.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#20071102134808873864355.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071102134808873864355.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016