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Pixelated text in cyan on colored backgrounds: purple, gray, green, and dark gray display identical phrases with <999 symbols

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Pixelated text in cyan on colored backgrounds: purple, gray, green, and dark gray display identical phrases with <999 symbols

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four equal
  • centered text within each

Dense Caption

Four distinct background colors (purple, gray, bright green, dark gray) each contain the same pixelated cyan text. Text reads "nora, lilly, niki, gigi gfs ily guys <999" across all backgrounds. The image is a static grid of four panels with no visible animation changes between observations.

Description

  • Pixelated text in cyan on colored backgrounds: purple, gray, green, and dark gray display identical phrases with <999 symbols

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
  • 20080524075549123117728

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text purple background <999
  • pixelated nora lilly niki gigi
  • four cyan text
  • <999 symbols bright green background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated text in cyan on colored backgrounds: purple, gray, green, and dark gray panels display identical phrases with <999 symbols.
  • quarantined wordwall: four panel layout
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: centered text within each panel
  • quarantined composition: four equal panels arranged in 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel cyan text grid

Visible Text

  • nora, lilly,
  • niki, gigi
  • gfs
  • ily guys
  • <999

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • <999 symbols
  • purple background
  • gray background
  • green background
  • dark gray background
  • pixelated font
  • four layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080524075549123117728
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2d/2d7f2f903e866f701c52791a418f4e868a07a33cf12d42f630b477b2c81e4e5e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC
Archive ID
2d7f2f903e866f70
SHA-256
2d7f2f903e866f701c52791a418f4e868a07a33cf12d42f630b477b2c81e4e5e
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
0.086025

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text in cyan on colored backgrounds: purple, gray, green, and dark gray display identical phrases with <999 symbols

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 18:41 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,040 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,116, response 651

Review tags

  • bright green (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • purple
  • gray
  • bright green
  • dark gray

Composition

  • four equal
  • centered text within each

Dense Caption

Four distinct background colors (purple, gray, bright green, dark gray) each contain the same pixelated cyan text. Text reads "nora, lilly, niki, gigi gfs ily guys <999" across all backgrounds. The image is a static grid of four panels with no visible animation changes between observations.

Description

  • Pixelated text in cyan on colored backgrounds: purple, gray, green, and dark gray display identical phrases with <999 symbols

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
  • 20080524075549123117728

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text purple background <999
  • pixelated nora lilly niki gigi
  • four cyan text
  • <999 symbols bright green background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated text in cyan on colored backgrounds: purple, gray, green, and dark gray panels display identical phrases with <999 symbols.
  • quarantined wordwall: four panel layout
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: centered text within each panel
  • quarantined composition: four equal panels arranged in 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel cyan text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • nora, lilly,
  • niki, gigi
  • gfs
  • ily guys
  • <999

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • <999 symbols
  • purple background
  • gray background
  • green background
  • dark gray background
  • pixelated font
  • four layout
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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
20080524075549123117728
Archive entry
20080524075549123117728.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 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#20080524075549123117728.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080524075549123117728.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016