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A pixelated image with text overlays and a rainbow-colored shape on a white background.

A pixelated image with text overlays and a rainbow-colored shape on a white background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, La…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two side-by-side
  • diagonal rainbow stripe
  • text overlaid on background

Dense Caption

The image displays two side-by-side panels of pixelated text over a white background. Both panels feature a diagonal rainbow stripe (red, green, blue) extending from the top-left to bottom-right. Left panel text reads: 'throw it away forget yesterday we'll make'. Right panel text reads: 'the great escape'. The text is black and appears in a blocky, pixelated font. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation.

Description

  • A pixelated image with text overlays and a rainbow-colored shape on a white background.

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
  • 20071019195020500830692

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text rainbow stripe white background
  • throw it away the great escape
  • two side-by-side pixelated font
  • rainbow stripe black text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two panels
  • quarantined composition: two side-by-side panels
  • quarantined retrieval: two side-by-side panels pixelated font

Visible Text

  • throw it away forget yesterday we'll make
  • the great escape

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • rainbow stripe
  • white background
  • black font
  • two

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071019195020500830692
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.7 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/32/32ccc76813634d107aa47082c6a70434da0118787e999e41e6c0d3efc114c5a0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC
Archive ID
32ccc76813634d10
SHA-256
32ccc76813634d107aa47082c6a70434da0118787e999e41e6c0d3efc114c5a0
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:36 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097121

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated image with text overlays and a rainbow-colored shape on a white background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 11:20 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,123 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 623

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • green
  • blue
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • two side-by-side
  • diagonal rainbow stripe
  • text overlaid on background

Dense Caption

The image displays two side-by-side panels of pixelated text over a white background. Both panels feature a diagonal rainbow stripe (red, green, blue) extending from the top-left to bottom-right. Left panel text reads: 'throw it away forget yesterday we'll make'. Right panel text reads: 'the great escape'. The text is black and appears in a blocky, pixelated font. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation.

Description

  • A pixelated image with text overlays and a rainbow-colored shape on a white background.

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
  • 20071019195020500830692

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text rainbow stripe white background
  • throw it away the great escape
  • two side-by-side pixelated font
  • rainbow stripe black text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two panels
  • quarantined composition: two side-by-side panels
  • quarantined retrieval: two side-by-side panels pixelated font

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • throw it away forget yesterday we'll make
  • the great escape

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • rainbow stripe
  • white background
  • black font
  • two
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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
20071019195020500830692
Archive entry
20071019195020500830692.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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#20071019195020500830692.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071019195020500830692.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016