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Green and pink checkered background with four instances of the word WHAT in pixelated black text, two with square and two with diamond

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Green and pink checkered background with four instances of the word WHAT in pixelated black text, two with square and two with diamond

Green and pink checkered background with four instances of the word WHAT in pixelated black text, two with square and two with diamond. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • background shift from square to diamond pattern

Animation Summary

  • The background shift from square to diamond pattern while the text remains static

Composition

  • four instances of text
  • alternating square and diamond patterns
  • consistent color scheme

Dense Caption

The image displays a green and pink checkered background with four instances of the word WHAT in pixelated black text. Two instances of the word WHAT are positioned on a square tile pattern background, while the other two are on a diamond tile pattern background. The text is rendered in a pixelated style with black letters on the checkered background. The green and pink colors alternate in a consistent pattern across the entire image.

Description

  • Green and pink checkered background with four instances of the word WHAT in pixelated black text, two with square and two with diamond

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080909014207693914477

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green pink checkered WHAT
  • pixelated WHAT text
  • square diamond WHAT
  • four WHAT instances
  • green pink color scheme
  • text-based animation
  • checkered background WHAT
  • pixelated text animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected
  • quarantined description: Green and pink checkered background with four instances of the word WHAT in pixelated black text, two with square tiles and two with diamond tiles.
  • quarantined animationSummary: The background tiles shift from square to diamond pattern while the text remains static.
  • quarantined wordwall: diamond tile pattern
  • quarantined wordwall: square tile pattern
  • quarantined composition: alternating square and diamond tile patterns
  • quarantined animation: background tiles shift from square to diamond pattern
  • quarantined retrieval: square diamond tile WHAT

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • WHAT

Wordwall

  • green and pink checkered background
  • four instances of WHAT
  • pixelated black text
  • square pattern
  • diamond pattern
  • green and pink color scheme
  • text rendered in pixelated style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080909014207693914477
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/39/394272516f6c87e07a34f302a0562a136b3f101a11a6e7ca2d34d753ee839402.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
394272516f6c87e0
SHA-256
394272516f6c87e07a34f302a0562a136b3f101a11a6e7ca2d34d753ee839402
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 23:37 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000012

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 00:14 UTC
Run
1230
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001175

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.001175falseself-harm0.000467falseself-harm/intent0.000212falsesexual0.000113falseviolence/graphic0.000020falseself-harm/instructions0.000002falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:43 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.570936

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.884964onnx/unsafe0.570936onnx/nsfw0.536622onnx/nsfl0.034314
Enrichment records (1)
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Green and pink checkered background with four instances of the word WHAT in pixelated black text, two with square and two with diamond

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 23:32 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,784 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 848

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • quirky (mood, 0.80)
  • background shift from square to diamond pattern (other, 0.80)
  • checkered (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • background shift from square to diamond pattern

Animation Summary

  • The background shift from square to diamond pattern while the text remains static

Colors

  • green
  • pink
  • black

Composition

  • four instances of text
  • alternating square and diamond patterns
  • consistent color scheme

Dense Caption

The image displays a green and pink checkered background with four instances of the word WHAT in pixelated black text. Two instances of the word WHAT are positioned on a square tile pattern background, while the other two are on a diamond tile pattern background. The text is rendered in a pixelated style with black letters on the checkered background. The green and pink colors alternate in a consistent pattern across the entire image.

Description

  • Green and pink checkered background with four instances of the word WHAT in pixelated black text, two with square and two with diamond

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080909014207693914477

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • quirky

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green pink checkered WHAT
  • pixelated WHAT text
  • square diamond WHAT
  • four WHAT instances
  • green pink color scheme
  • text-based animation
  • checkered background WHAT
  • pixelated text animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected
  • quarantined description: Green and pink checkered background with four instances of the word WHAT in pixelated black text, two with square tiles and two with diamond tiles.
  • quarantined animationSummary: The background tiles shift from square to diamond pattern while the text remains static.
  • quarantined wordwall: diamond tile pattern
  • quarantined wordwall: square tile pattern
  • quarantined composition: alternating square and diamond tile patterns
  • quarantined animation: background tiles shift from square to diamond pattern
  • quarantined retrieval: square diamond tile WHAT

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • checkered
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • WHAT

Wordwall

  • green and pink checkered background
  • four instances of WHAT
  • pixelated black text
  • square pattern
  • diamond pattern
  • green and pink color scheme
  • text rendered in pixelated style
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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
20080909014207693914477
Archive entry
20080909014207693914477.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#20080909014207693914477.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080909014207693914477.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016