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Four identical pixel art display white text and emoticons on black backgrounds with red rectangular overlays

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Four identical pixel art display white text and emoticons on black backgrounds with red rectangular overlays

Four identical pixel art display white text and emoticons on black backgrounds with red rectangular overlays. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • red rectangle shifts position

Animation Summary

  • Red rectangle shifts from top to middle to bottom positions

Composition

  • centered elements
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel contains white pixelated text 'hello' centered below a white pixelated '=)' emoticon on a black background. The top-right panel has a red rectangle overlaying the top portion of the panel. The bottom-left panel has a red rectangle overlaying the middle portion of the panel. The bottom-right panel has a red rectangle overlaying the bottom portion of the panel. All panels share the same black background and white text/emoticon elements.

Description

  • Four identical pixel art display white text and emoticons on black backgrounds with red rectangular overlays

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
  • 200809021022501748690738

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hello emoticon red rectangle pixel art
  • red rectangle shift hello
  • pixel art hello emoticon
  • hello emoticon
  • hello red rectangle shift
  • pixel art red rectangle shift
  • hello emoticon shift
  • red rectangle hello pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte
  • quarantined description: Four identical pixel art panels display white text and emoticons on black backgrounds with red rectangular overlays.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Red rectangle shifts from top to middle to bottom positions across panels.
  • quarantined wordwall: 4 panels
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined animation: red rectangle shifts position across panels
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid hello emoticon

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

Visible Text

  • hello

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white text
  • white emoticon
  • red rectangle
  • pixelated
  • hello
  • centered text
  • centered emoticon
  • top-right overlay
  • bottom-left overlay
  • bottom-right overlay

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809021022501748690738
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
400 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3c/3c08963c620ffcf7bd59cda13da35275084180ab3ca82b7c154af974dfc5a515.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
3c08963c620ffcf7
SHA-256
3c08963c620ffcf7bd59cda13da35275084180ab3ca82b7c154af974dfc5a515
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:46 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085288

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.927110onnx/unsafe0.085288onnx/nsfw0.046764onnx/nsfl0.038525
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Four identical pixel art display white text and emoticons on black backgrounds with red rectangular overlays

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 22:38 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,061 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 852

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • red rectangle shifts position (other, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • red rectangle shifts position

Animation Summary

  • Red rectangle shifts from top to middle to bottom positions

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • centered elements
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel contains white pixelated text 'hello' centered below a white pixelated '=)' emoticon on a black background. The top-right panel has a red rectangle overlaying the top portion of the panel. The bottom-left panel has a red rectangle overlaying the middle portion of the panel. The bottom-right panel has a red rectangle overlaying the bottom portion of the panel. All panels share the same black background and white text/emoticon elements.

Description

  • Four identical pixel art display white text and emoticons on black backgrounds with red rectangular overlays

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
  • 200809021022501748690738

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hello emoticon red rectangle pixel art
  • red rectangle shift hello
  • pixel art hello emoticon
  • hello emoticon
  • hello red rectangle shift
  • pixel art red rectangle shift
  • hello emoticon shift
  • red rectangle hello pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
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  • no matte
  • quarantined description: Four identical pixel art panels display white text and emoticons on black backgrounds with red rectangular overlays.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Red rectangle shifts from top to middle to bottom positions across panels.
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  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined animation: red rectangle shifts position across panels
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid hello emoticon

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • monochrome
  • minimalist

Visible Text

  • hello

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white text
  • white emoticon
  • red rectangle
  • pixelated
  • hello
  • centered text
  • centered emoticon
  • top-right overlay
  • bottom-left overlay
  • bottom-right overlay
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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
200809021022501748690738
Archive entry
200809021022501748690738.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#200809021022501748690738.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809021022501748690738.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016