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A barcode-patterned background with colored text reading 'are you checkin me out?' in red, orange, yellow, green, and cyan.

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A barcode-patterned background with colored text reading 'are you checkin me out?' in red, orange, yellow, green, and cyan.

A barcode-patterned background with colored text reading 'are you checkin me out?' in red, orange, yellow, green, and cyan. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal text layout
  • centered text elements
  • barcode pattern fills entire background

Dense Caption

The image features a grayscale barcode pattern as the background. Overlaid on this are five words: 'are' in red, 'you' in orange, 'checkin' in yellow, 'me' in green, and 'out?' in cyan. The text is rendered with black outlines and appears to be static without any visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • A barcode-patterned background with colored text reading 'are you checkin me out?' in red, orange, yellow, green, and cyan.

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
  • 200804121531231135985560

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • barcode text buddy icon
  • are you checkin me out cyan green yellow orange red
  • grayscale background colored text animation

Visible Text

  • are
  • you
  • checkin
  • me
  • out?

Wordwall

  • barcode background
  • red text 'are'
  • orange text 'you'
  • yellow text 'checkin'
  • green text 'me'
  • cyan text 'out?'
  • black outlines on text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804121531231135985560
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
50×50 pixels
File size
6.1 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2c/2c7a521072af4acc925a3bf5d09c8d7672c78eab8d48b1728f860846d68a03fd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC
Archive ID
2c7a521072af4acc
SHA-256
2c7a521072af4acc925a3bf5d09c8d7672c78eab8d48b1728f860846d68a03fd
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:30 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.197210

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.897932onnx/unsafe0.197210onnx/nsfw0.124878onnx/nsfl0.072332
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A barcode-patterned background with colored text reading 'are you checkin me out?' in red, orange, yellow, green, and cyan.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 02:55 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,120 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,169, response 637

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • grayscale background with colored text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • orange
  • yellow
  • green
  • cyan
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • horizontal text layout
  • centered text elements
  • barcode pattern fills entire background

Dense Caption

The image features a grayscale barcode pattern as the background. Overlaid on this are five words: 'are' in red, 'you' in orange, 'checkin' in yellow, 'me' in green, and 'out?' in cyan. The text is rendered with black outlines and appears to be static without any visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • A barcode-patterned background with colored text reading 'are you checkin me out?' in red, orange, yellow, green, and cyan.

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
  • 200804121531231135985560

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • barcode text buddy icon
  • are you checkin me out cyan green yellow orange red
  • grayscale background colored text animation

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • grayscale background with colored text

Visible Text

  • are
  • you
  • checkin
  • me
  • out?

Wordwall

  • barcode background
  • red text 'are'
  • orange text 'you'
  • yellow text 'checkin'
  • green text 'me'
  • cyan text 'out?'
  • black outlines on text
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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
200804121531231135985560
Archive entry
200804121531231135985560.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#200804121531231135985560.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804121531231135985560.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016