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Red pixelated text and symbols on a grayscale checkerboard background with repeated patterns.

Red pixelated text and symbols on a grayscale checkerboard background with repeated patterns. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal of repeating elements
  • text centered in each
  • checkerboard fills entire background

Dense Caption

The image displays red, pixelated text reading "BLURRY" in uppercase letters at the top and bottom rows. Below each "BLURRY" row is repeating text that reads "that's you" followed by an equals sign and bracket symbol (="). The background consists of a grayscale checkerboard pattern with alternating black, white, and gray squares. All elements are static; no animation changes occur across observations.

Description

  • Red pixelated text and symbols on a grayscale checkerboard background with repeated patterns.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080125165812510947911

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red blurry text grayscale checkerboard
  • that's you equals bracket symbols
  • repeating pixelated text pattern
  • static image with no motion

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: text centered in each row
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows of repeating elements

Visible Text

  • BLURRY
  • that's you
  • =]

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • grayscale checkerboard background
  • BLURRY text repeated top/bottom
  • that's you text repeated middle
  • =] symbols repeated
  • static image with no motion

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080125165812510947911
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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/36/36d242c283fa5da7f3bc3af4ed6a7feab149e28d6ddb19c2d546a6a9f4a72ada.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Archive ID
36d242c283fa5da7
SHA-256
36d242c283fa5da7f3bc3af4ed6a7feab149e28d6ddb19c2d546a6a9f4a72ada
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 31, 2026 at 13:06 UTC
Run
1249
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000082

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 27, 2026 at 13:47 UTC
Run
1196
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.016044

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
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107
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image
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Red pixelated text and symbols on a grayscale checkerboard background with repeated patterns.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 12:55 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,970 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 627

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • grayscale checkerboard background (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • horizontal of repeating elements
  • text centered in each
  • checkerboard fills entire background

Dense Caption

The image displays red, pixelated text reading "BLURRY" in uppercase letters at the top and bottom rows. Below each "BLURRY" row is repeating text that reads "that's you" followed by an equals sign and bracket symbol (="). The background consists of a grayscale checkerboard pattern with alternating black, white, and gray squares. All elements are static; no animation changes occur across observations.

Description

  • Red pixelated text and symbols on a grayscale checkerboard background with repeated patterns.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080125165812510947911

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red blurry text grayscale checkerboard
  • that's you equals bracket symbols
  • repeating pixelated text pattern
  • static image with no motion

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: text centered in each row
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows of repeating elements

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale checkerboard background
  • repeating text pattern

Visible Text

  • BLURRY
  • that's you
  • =]

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • grayscale checkerboard background
  • BLURRY text repeated top/bottom
  • that's you text repeated middle
  • =] symbols repeated
  • static image with no motion
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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
20080125165812510947911
Archive entry
20080125165812510947911.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 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#20080125165812510947911.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080125165812510947911.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016