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Pixelated cyan text on black background forms a repeating pattern of 'Snowman', 'Lightning', 'Squirt', 'Major', and '2' with jagged edges.

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Pixelated cyan text on black background forms a repeating pattern of 'Snowman', 'Lightning', 'Squirt', 'Major', and '2' with jagged edges.

Pixelated cyan text on black background forms a repeating pattern of 'Snowman', 'Lightning', 'Squirt', 'Major', and '2' with jagged edges. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • repeating pattern

Dense Caption

The image displays a static pixelated pattern composed of cyan text on a black background. The text elements 'Snowman', 'Lightning', 'Squirt', 'Major', and '2' are repeated in a grid-like arrangement. Each text element has jagged, pixelated edges typical of low-resolution digital graphics. The text is arranged in rows and columns, with 'Snowman' appearing at the top left and top right, 'Lightning' below 'Snowman', 'Squirt' below 'Lightning', 'Major' below 'Squirt', and '2' below 'Major'. The pattern repeats across the image, creating a symmetrical layout. The cyan text is consistently rendered with a blocky, pixelated style, characteristic of early digital graphics or retro video game aesthetics.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on black background forms a repeating pattern of 'Snowman', 'Lightning', 'Squirt', 'Major', and '2' with jagged edges.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pixelated text
  • black background
  • repeating Snowman Lightning Squirt Major 2
  • jagged edges
  • retro graphics
  • blocky style
  • low-resolution text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: repeated columns
  • quarantined wordwall: repeated rows
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: grid layout

Visible Text

  • Snowman
  • Lightning
  • Squirt
  • Major
  • 2

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • repeating pattern
  • Snowman
  • Lightning
  • Squirt
  • Major
  • 2
  • jagged edges
  • symmetrical
  • blocky style
  • low-resolution
  • retro graphics
  • text elements
  • repeated
  • cyan on black
  • pixelated edges

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810221407581980005887
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3c/3c4cb4ce0c5b01278b39084c43888ae1161420448c9d7a3ea6d23677f8119110.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
3c4cb4ce0c5b0127
SHA-256
3c4cb4ce0c5b01278b39084c43888ae1161420448c9d7a3ea6d23677f8119110
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:46 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.106837

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cyan text on black background forms a repeating pattern of 'Snowman', 'Lightning', 'Squirt', 'Major', and '2' with jagged edges.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 05:11 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,474 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 793

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • black

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • repeating pattern

Dense Caption

The image displays a static pixelated pattern composed of cyan text on a black background. The text elements 'Snowman', 'Lightning', 'Squirt', 'Major', and '2' are repeated in a grid-like arrangement. Each text element has jagged, pixelated edges typical of low-resolution digital graphics. The text is arranged in rows and columns, with 'Snowman' appearing at the top left and top right, 'Lightning' below 'Snowman', 'Squirt' below 'Lightning', 'Major' below 'Squirt', and '2' below 'Major'. The pattern repeats across the image, creating a symmetrical layout. The cyan text is consistently rendered with a blocky, pixelated style, characteristic of early digital graphics or retro video game aesthetics.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on black background forms a repeating pattern of 'Snowman', 'Lightning', 'Squirt', 'Major', and '2' with jagged edges.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pixelated text
  • black background
  • repeating Snowman Lightning Squirt Major 2
  • jagged edges
  • retro graphics
  • blocky style
  • low-resolution text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: repeated columns
  • quarantined wordwall: repeated rows
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • retro

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  • Snowman
  • Lightning
  • Squirt
  • Major
  • 2

Wordwall

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  • black background
  • pixelated
  • repeating pattern
  • Snowman
  • Lightning
  • Squirt
  • Major
  • 2
  • jagged edges
  • symmetrical
  • blocky style
  • low-resolution
  • retro graphics
  • text elements
  • repeated
  • cyan on black
  • pixelated edges
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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
200810221407581980005887
Archive entry
200810221407581980005887.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#200810221407581980005887.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810221407581980005887.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016