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Pixelated text on a checkered background with alternating cyan and magenta squares, repeated in four quadrants.

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Pixelated text on a checkered background with alternating cyan and magenta squares, repeated in four quadrants.

Pixelated text on a checkered background with alternating cyan and magenta squares, repeated in four quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four copies are identical static images.

Composition

  • identical copies
  • checkered background

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical copies of the same pixelated graphic arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each copy features black text reading 'cDs And kAW R BFFS 4ever!!!!!!' on a checkered background composed of alternating cyan and magenta squares. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. All four copies are visually identical with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a checkered background with alternating cyan and magenta squares, repeated in four quadrants.

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
  • 20071106164736931666454

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan magenta checkered text
  • cDs And kAW R BFFS 4ever!!!!!! pixel art
  • cyan magenta background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid of identical copies
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid cyan magenta background

Visible Text

  • cDs And
  • kAW
  • R
  • BFFS
  • 4ever!!!!!!

Wordwall

  • cyan
  • magenta
  • checkered
  • text
  • cDs And kAW R BFFS 4ever!!!!!!
  • pixelated
  • blocky font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071106164736931666454
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/37/379db122070263983724de074b313dcf74afc0ae9979179c42a52eb6fef12afc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC
Archive ID
379db12207026398
SHA-256
379db122070263983724de074b313dcf74afc0ae9979179c42a52eb6fef12afc
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Run
1201
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000751

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.000751falseharassment0.000068falseviolence0.000012falseself-harm0.000011falsehate0.000008falseviolence/graphic0.000007falseself-harm/intent0.000006falsesexual/minors0.000006falseharassment/threatening0.000005falseillicit0.000004falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseillicit/violent0.000001falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
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
0.322162

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.925614onnx/unsafe0.322162onnx/nsfw0.284255onnx/nsfl0.037908
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated text on a checkered background with alternating cyan and magenta squares, repeated in four quadrants.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 15:51 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,033 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 591

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four copies are identical static images.

Colors

  • cyan
  • magenta
  • black

Composition

  • identical copies
  • checkered background

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical copies of the same pixelated graphic arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each copy features black text reading 'cDs And kAW R BFFS 4ever!!!!!!' on a checkered background composed of alternating cyan and magenta squares. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. All four copies are visually identical with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a checkered background with alternating cyan and magenta squares, repeated in four quadrants.

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
  • 20071106164736931666454

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan magenta checkered text
  • cDs And kAW R BFFS 4ever!!!!!! pixel art
  • cyan magenta background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid of identical copies
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid cyan magenta background

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • cDs And
  • kAW
  • R
  • BFFS
  • 4ever!!!!!!

Wordwall

  • cyan
  • magenta
  • checkered
  • text
  • cDs And kAW R BFFS 4ever!!!!!!
  • pixelated
  • blocky font
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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
20071106164736931666454
Archive entry
20071106164736931666454.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 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#20071106164736931666454.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071106164736931666454.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016