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Black-and-white pixelated text blocks arranged vertically on a speckled background, with partial words and punctuation visible.

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Black-and-white pixelated text blocks arranged vertically on a speckled background, with partial words and punctuation visible.

Black-and-white pixelated text blocks arranged vertically on a speckled background, with partial words and punctuation visible. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Composition

  • two vertical
  • centered text boxes
  • speckled background

Dense Caption

The image shows two vertical arrangements of black rectangular text boxes with white pixelated letters against a light gray speckled background. Left arrangement: top box contains 'me?', middle box contains 'you', bottom box contains 'make fun'. Right arrangement: top box contains 'my', second box contains 'friends?', third box contains 'no', fourth box contains 'never.'. All text is in lowercase except for the question marks and period. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance with visible dithering.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated text blocks arranged vertically on a speckled background, with partial words and punctuation visible.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200903301155421975781551

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • me you make fun my friends no never
  • text-based pixel art
  • monochrome text boxes
  • speckled background animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two vertical columns

Visible Text

  • me?
  • you
  • make fun
  • my
  • friends?
  • no
  • never.

Wordwall

  • black rectangular text boxes
  • white pixelated letters
  • speckled background
  • vertical arrangement
  • lowercase text
  • question mark punctuation
  • period punctuation
  • pixelated appearance

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200903301155421975781551
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/38/3806d9002c6cfd0b24735e224320a68abc0bacaee85b5e1f859a85eca62f57bd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC
Archive ID
3806d9002c6cfd0b
SHA-256
3806d9002c6cfd0b24735e224320a68abc0bacaee85b5e1f859a85eca62f57bd
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 11, 2026 at 01:13 UTC
Run
1281
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000529

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:42 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.181009

OpenAI category scores

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Black-and-white pixelated text blocks arranged vertically on a speckled background, with partial words and punctuation visible.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 04:48 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,854 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 661

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • ambiguous (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • static image (other, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • two vertical
  • centered text boxes
  • speckled background

Dense Caption

The image shows two vertical arrangements of black rectangular text boxes with white pixelated letters against a light gray speckled background. Left arrangement: top box contains 'me?', middle box contains 'you', bottom box contains 'make fun'. Right arrangement: top box contains 'my', second box contains 'friends?', third box contains 'no', fourth box contains 'never.'. All text is in lowercase except for the question marks and period. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance with visible dithering.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated text blocks arranged vertically on a speckled background, with partial words and punctuation visible.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200903301155421975781551

Mood

  • neutral
  • ambiguous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • me you make fun my friends no never
  • text-based pixel art
  • monochrome text boxes
  • speckled background animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two vertical columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • monochrome

Visible Text

  • me?
  • you
  • make fun
  • my
  • friends?
  • no
  • never.

Wordwall

  • black rectangular text boxes
  • white pixelated letters
  • speckled background
  • vertical arrangement
  • lowercase text
  • question mark punctuation
  • period punctuation
  • pixelated appearance
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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
200903301155421975781551
Archive entry
200903301155421975781551.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 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#200903301155421975781551.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200903301155421975781551.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016