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Green background with orange text and white rectangular bars; text repeats 'VG4L', 'Says', and 'Subscribe!!!' in pixelated font.

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Green background with orange text and white rectangular bars; text repeats 'VG4L', 'Says', and 'Subscribe!!!' in pixelated font.

Green background with orange text and white rectangular bars; text repeats 'VG4L', 'Says', and 'Subscribe!!!' in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Source terms

Composition

  • like
  • alternating text and bar

Dense Caption

Green background with orange pixelated text reading 'VG4L' (appears four times), 'Says' (appears four times), and 'Subscribe!!!' (appears twice). White rectangular bars appear in two positions: one above the middle row and one below the middle row. Text and bars are arranged in a grid-like composition with alternating text and bar rows. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with blocky, low-resolution characters.

Description

  • Green background with orange text and white rectangular bars; text repeats 'VG4L', 'Says', and 'Subscribe!!!' in pixelated font.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • VG4L Says Subscribe
  • green background orange text
  • Subscribe!!! white bars
  • pixelated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid-like composition
  • quarantined composition: alternating text and bar rows
  • quarantined composition: grid-like
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid

Visible Text

  • VG4L
  • Says
  • Subscribe!!!

Wordwall

  • green background
  • orange pixelated text
  • white rectangular bars
  • VG4L text
  • Says text
  • Subscribe!!! text
  • like composition
  • retro digital aesthetic
  • blocky low-resolution characters
  • four VG4L instances
  • four Says instances
  • two Subscribe!!! instances
  • two white bars

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090104073703735518032
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
421 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/31/313d64765618fa31278f325beae018c8df023ddbbf4461ee47e56672daf8f572.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
Archive ID
313d64765618fa31
SHA-256
313d64765618fa31278f325beae018c8df023ddbbf4461ee47e56672daf8f572
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:35 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077228

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Green background with orange text and white rectangular bars; text repeats 'VG4L', 'Says', and 'Subscribe!!!' in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 16:41 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,253 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 672

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • orange
  • white

Composition

  • like
  • alternating text and bar

Dense Caption

Green background with orange pixelated text reading 'VG4L' (appears four times), 'Says' (appears four times), and 'Subscribe!!!' (appears twice). White rectangular bars appear in two positions: one above the middle row and one below the middle row. Text and bars are arranged in a grid-like composition with alternating text and bar rows. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with blocky, low-resolution characters.

Description

  • Green background with orange text and white rectangular bars; text repeats 'VG4L', 'Says', and 'Subscribe!!!' in pixelated font.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • VG4L Says Subscribe
  • green background orange text
  • Subscribe!!! white bars
  • pixelated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid-like composition
  • quarantined composition: alternating text and bar rows
  • quarantined composition: grid-like
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky

Visible Text

  • VG4L
  • Says
  • Subscribe!!!

Wordwall

  • green background
  • orange pixelated text
  • white rectangular bars
  • VG4L text
  • Says text
  • Subscribe!!! text
  • like composition
  • retro digital aesthetic
  • blocky low-resolution characters
  • four VG4L instances
  • four Says instances
  • two Subscribe!!! instances
  • two white bars
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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
20090104073703735518032
Archive entry
20090104073703735518032.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 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#20090104073703735518032.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090104073703735518032.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016