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Purple background with yellow pixel dots forming a border and central pattern, four instances of 'OMG.' text in black pixelated font.

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Purple background with yellow pixel dots forming a border and central pattern, four instances of 'OMG.' text in black pixelated font.

Purple background with yellow pixel dots forming a border and central pattern, four instances of 'OMG.' text in black pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • central dot cluster
  • border of dots

Dense Caption

Purple background with scattered yellow pixel dots forming a border and central pattern. Four instances of 'OMG.' text in black pixelated font, two in the top row and two in the bottom row. Yellow pixel dots are distributed across the background, with higher density near the center. The text 'OMG.' appears in a blocky, pixelated style consistent with early digital graphics. The overall composition is symmetrical with the text and dots arranged in a grid-like pattern.

Description

  • Purple background with yellow pixel dots forming a border and central pattern, four instances of 'OMG.' text in black pixelated font.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple yellow dot OMG
  • pixelated OMG text
  • symmetrical dot
  • four OMG texts
  • blocky font purple background
  • yellow border dots
  • central dot cluster
  • OMG pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: symmetrical grid
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: symmetrical dot grid

Visible Text

  • OMG.

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • yellow pixel dots
  • four 'OMG.' texts
  • black pixelated font
  • symmetrical
  • central dot pattern
  • border of dots
  • blocky text style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708021145541316821714
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
900 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3a/3a76ed115a01c3c816c9336be4bf54456b216a4e88ebf91db289ebf3450dd1df.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
3a76ed115a01c3c8
SHA-256
3a76ed115a01c3c816c9336be4bf54456b216a4e88ebf91db289ebf3450dd1df
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:44 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.065749

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Purple background with yellow pixel dots forming a border and central pattern, four instances of 'OMG.' text in black pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 17:41 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,893 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 635

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
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  • purple
  • yellow
  • black

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  • symmetrical
  • central dot cluster
  • border of dots

Dense Caption

Purple background with scattered yellow pixel dots forming a border and central pattern. Four instances of 'OMG.' text in black pixelated font, two in the top row and two in the bottom row. Yellow pixel dots are distributed across the background, with higher density near the center. The text 'OMG.' appears in a blocky, pixelated style consistent with early digital graphics. The overall composition is symmetrical with the text and dots arranged in a grid-like pattern.

Description

  • Purple background with yellow pixel dots forming a border and central pattern, four instances of 'OMG.' text in black pixelated font.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple yellow dot OMG
  • pixelated OMG text
  • symmetrical dot
  • four OMG texts
  • blocky font purple background
  • yellow border dots
  • central dot cluster
  • OMG pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: symmetrical grid
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: symmetrical dot grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • symmetrical

Visible Text

  • OMG.

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • yellow pixel dots
  • four 'OMG.' texts
  • black pixelated font
  • symmetrical
  • central dot pattern
  • border of dots
  • blocky text style
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:09 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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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
200708021145541316821714
Archive entry
200708021145541316821714.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#200708021145541316821714.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708021145541316821714.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016