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Pixelated text on four colored backgrounds with identical phrases, each background a different solid color.

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Pixelated text on four colored backgrounds with identical phrases, each background a different solid color.

Pixelated text on four colored backgrounds with identical phrases, each background a different solid color. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four equal
  • solid backgrounds

Dense Caption

Four distinct rectangular panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left panel: blue background with black pixelated text reading 'its because my lights r flashier, isn't it'. Top-right panel: green background with identical black pixelated text. Bottom-left panel: bright yellow-green background with identical black pixelated text. Bottom-right panel: teal background with identical black pixelated text. All panels share the same font style and text content.

Description

  • Pixelated text on four colored backgrounds with identical phrases, each background a different solid color.

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
  • 20071214155307804697013

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four colored backgrounds text
  • pixelated phrase blue green yellow-green teal
  • text-based
  • identical pixelated text on solid colors

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: identical phrase across all panels
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four equal panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: text-based 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated phrase blue green yellow-green teal panels
  • quarantined retrieval: four colored backgrounds text grid

Visible Text

  • its because my lights r flashier, isn't it

Wordwall

  • four colored backgrounds
  • pixelated text
  • identical phrase across all
  • blue top-left
  • green top-right
  • yellow-green bottom-left
  • teal bottom-right

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071214155307804697013
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
893 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2d/2d65fe7caff36c02bef4431e2d995c04e5bf79dbc85c20e68f6a3291cca964c0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 UTC
Archive ID
2d65fe7caff36c02
SHA-256
2d65fe7caff36c02bef4431e2d995c04e5bf79dbc85c20e68f6a3291cca964c0
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:31 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.200227

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text on four colored backgrounds with identical phrases, each background a different solid color.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 01:55 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,772 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 638

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • yellow green (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • green
  • yellow-green
  • teal

Composition

  • four equal
  • solid backgrounds

Dense Caption

Four distinct rectangular panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left panel: blue background with black pixelated text reading 'its because my lights r flashier, isn't it'. Top-right panel: green background with identical black pixelated text. Bottom-left panel: bright yellow-green background with identical black pixelated text. Bottom-right panel: teal background with identical black pixelated text. All panels share the same font style and text content.

Description

  • Pixelated text on four colored backgrounds with identical phrases, each background a different solid color.

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
  • 20071214155307804697013

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four colored backgrounds text
  • pixelated phrase blue green yellow-green teal
  • text-based
  • identical pixelated text on solid colors

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: identical phrase across all panels
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four equal panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: text-based 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated phrase blue green yellow-green teal panels
  • quarantined retrieval: four colored backgrounds text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • its because my lights r flashier, isn't it

Wordwall

  • four colored backgrounds
  • pixelated text
  • identical phrase across all
  • blue top-left
  • green top-right
  • yellow-green bottom-left
  • teal bottom-right
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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
20071214155307804697013
Archive entry
20071214155307804697013.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 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#20071214155307804697013.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071214155307804697013.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016