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Pixelated text on a blue-purple gradient background with white lettering, arranged in four quadrants.

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Pixelated text on a blue-purple gradient background with white lettering, arranged in four quadrants.

Pixelated text on a blue-purple gradient background with white lettering, arranged in four quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • centered text in each quadrant
  • identical content across all quadrants

Dense Caption

Four identical panels display the phrase "i heard it thru the grapevine boy we're so done" in pixelated white lowercase letters. The background is a solid blue-to-purple gradient. Each panel shows the same text layout: five lines of centered text with 'thru' and 'grapevine' having distinct letter spacing, all characters rendered in blocky 8-bit style without serifs or curves.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a blue-purple gradient background with white lettering, arranged in four quadrants.

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
  • 20080528200700916886823

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text blue purple background
  • grapevine boy we're so done
  • four quadrant
  • thru the grapevine misspelled

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: four quadrant grid layout

Visible Text

  • i heard it
  • thru the
  • grapevine
  • boy we're
  • so done

Wordwall

  • pixelated white lowercase text
  • blue-purple gradient background
  • four identical
  • five-line text layout
  • thru has wider spacing than other words
  • grapevine is misspelled as grapevine
  • boy we're so done on last line

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080528200700916886823
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2e/2e8c892473f7612637b96bd855a562c6969083cb11e3581ab1021d63730343d4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC
Archive ID
2e8c892473f76126
SHA-256
2e8c892473f7612637b96bd855a562c6969083cb11e3581ab1021d63730343d4
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:32 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.133350

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text on a blue-purple gradient background with white lettering, arranged in four quadrants.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 20:05 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,617 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 678

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • retro (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • gradient background (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution text rendering (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • purple
  • white

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • centered text in each quadrant
  • identical content across all quadrants

Dense Caption

Four identical panels display the phrase "i heard it thru the grapevine boy we're so done" in pixelated white lowercase letters. The background is a solid blue-to-purple gradient. Each panel shows the same text layout: five lines of centered text with 'thru' and 'grapevine' having distinct letter spacing, all characters rendered in blocky 8-bit style without serifs or curves.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a blue-purple gradient background with white lettering, arranged in four quadrants.

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
  • 20080528200700916886823

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • playful
  • retro

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text blue purple background
  • grapevine boy we're so done
  • four quadrant
  • thru the grapevine misspelled

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: four quadrant grid layout

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • low-resolution text rendering
  • gradient background

Visible Text

  • i heard it
  • thru the
  • grapevine
  • boy we're
  • so done

Wordwall

  • pixelated white lowercase text
  • blue-purple gradient background
  • four identical
  • five-line text layout
  • thru has wider spacing than other words
  • grapevine is misspelled as grapevine
  • boy we're so done on last line
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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
20080528200700916886823
Archive entry
20080528200700916886823.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 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#20080528200700916886823.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080528200700916886823.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016