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Pixelated text on a blue-red gradient background with repeated phrases and misspelled words.

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Pixelated text on a blue-red gradient background with repeated phrases and misspelled words.

Pixelated text on a blue-red gradient background with repeated phrases and misspelled words. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image (no motion observed)

Composition

  • four identical
  • centered text

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel contains white pixelated text on a blue-to-red gradient background. The text reads "P-SOUTH" at the top, followed by "Basketball", then "gonna", then "RULE" (with "RULE" in all caps), and finally "whatch out" with a misspelling of "watch" as "whatch". The red gradient is more prominent behind the words "Basketball" and "RULE" in each panel.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a blue-red gradient background with repeated phrases and misspelled words.

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080425191300352662368

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball rule whatch out
  • p-south basketball gonna rule
  • pixelated text blue red gradient
  • whatch out misspelled watch

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • P-SOUTH
  • Basketball
  • gonna
  • RULE
  • whatch out

Wordwall

  • blue-red gradient background
  • white pixelated text
  • P-SOUTH
  • Basketball
  • gonna
  • RULE
  • whatch out
  • misspelled watch

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080425191300352662368
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/30/300cf1a8cf023ccd0ad7b8291e7e51bea8f4da6161b5d9f6a6132cb47f1737d3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC
Archive ID
300cf1a8cf023ccd
SHA-256
300cf1a8cf023ccd0ad7b8291e7e51bea8f4da6161b5d9f6a6132cb47f1737d3
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:33 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.100952

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text on a blue-red gradient background with repeated phrases and misspelled words.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 08:43 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,864 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 656

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • energetic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • static image no motion observed (other, 0.80)
  • gradients (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image (no motion observed)

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • four identical
  • centered text

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel contains white pixelated text on a blue-to-red gradient background. The text reads "P-SOUTH" at the top, followed by "Basketball", then "gonna", then "RULE" (with "RULE" in all caps), and finally "whatch out" with a misspelling of "watch" as "whatch". The red gradient is more prominent behind the words "Basketball" and "RULE" in each panel.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a blue-red gradient background with repeated phrases and misspelled words.

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080425191300352662368

Mood

  • playful
  • energetic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball rule whatch out
  • p-south basketball gonna rule
  • pixelated text blue red gradient
  • whatch out misspelled watch

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • gradients

Visible Text

  • P-SOUTH
  • Basketball
  • gonna
  • RULE
  • whatch out

Wordwall

  • blue-red gradient background
  • white pixelated text
  • P-SOUTH
  • Basketball
  • gonna
  • RULE
  • whatch out
  • misspelled watch
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TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20080425191300352662368
Archive entry
20080425191300352662368.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 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#20080425191300352662368.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080425191300352662368.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016