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Black background with white rectangular blocks containing pixelated text fragments arranged in a scattered layout.

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Black background with white rectangular blocks containing pixelated text fragments arranged in a scattered layout.

Black background with white rectangular blocks containing pixelated text fragments arranged in a scattered layout. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with scattered text blocks.

Composition

  • scattered text blocks
  • asymmetric layout
  • no central focal point

Dense Caption

Black background with white rectangular blocks containing pixelated text fragments: 'betcha' at top center, 'cant' at top right, 'read' at bottom left, 'this' at bottom center, and a horizontal line of 12 vertical black bars at bottom right. All text uses a monospaced pixel font. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Black background with white rectangular blocks containing pixelated text fragments arranged in a scattered layout.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • betcha cant read this
  • pixelated text blocks
  • 12 vertical bars
  • monospaced pixel font

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata hints but no pixel evidence supports them

Visible Text

  • betcha
  • cant
  • read
  • this

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white rectangular blocks
  • pixelated text
  • betcha
  • cant
  • read
  • this
  • 12 vertical black bars
  • monospaced pixel font
  • scattered layout

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070805113608121079051
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
512 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/36/36ce67f73a109fed68aeaf3b11d72a096716d1ffd8f4019175d2ea04397fa65e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
36ce67f73a109fed
SHA-256
36ce67f73a109fed68aeaf3b11d72a096716d1ffd8f4019175d2ea04397fa65e
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 25, 2026 at 19:21 UTC
Run
1343
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000610

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 20:35 UTC
Run
1245
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.023061

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.023061falseself-harm0.004722falseviolence/graphic0.001576falsesexual0.000796falseself-harm/intent0.000245falseself-harm/instructions0.000216falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.512372

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black background with white rectangular blocks containing pixelated text fragments arranged in a scattered layout.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:16 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,342 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,164, response 599

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cryptic (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • monospaced text (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with scattered text blocks.

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • scattered text blocks
  • asymmetric layout
  • no central focal point

Dense Caption

Black background with white rectangular blocks containing pixelated text fragments: 'betcha' at top center, 'cant' at top right, 'read' at bottom left, 'this' at bottom center, and a horizontal line of 12 vertical black bars at bottom right. All text uses a monospaced pixel font. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Black background with white rectangular blocks containing pixelated text fragments arranged in a scattered layout.

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

Mood

  • neutral
  • cryptic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • betcha cant read this
  • pixelated text blocks
  • 12 vertical bars
  • monospaced pixel font

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata hints but no pixel evidence supports them

Style

  • pixel art
  • monospaced text
  • minimalist

Visible Text

  • betcha
  • cant
  • read
  • this

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white rectangular blocks
  • pixelated text
  • betcha
  • cant
  • read
  • this
  • 12 vertical black bars
  • monospaced pixel font
  • scattered layout
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:28 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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
20070805113608121079051
Archive entry
20070805113608121079051.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#20070805113608121079051.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070805113608121079051.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016