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Yellow background with red pixelated text and orange square patterns in a

Yellow background with red pixelated text and orange square patterns in a. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to M…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four text instances
  • symmetrically placed decorative shapes

Dense Caption

Bright yellow background features four instances of the word "RETRO!" rendered in bold, blocky red pixels. Orange geometric patterns composed of overlapping squares and small dots are arranged symmetrically around the text elements. The design uses low-resolution pixel art style with distinct color blocks: primary yellow for background, vivid red for text, and warm orange for decorative shapes. All visual elements maintain consistent spacing across a grid-like composition.

Description

  • Yellow background with red pixelated text and orange square patterns in a

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
  • 200711020622132100743501

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow retro pixel art
  • red text orange squares
  • pixelated retro design
  • symmetrical

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Yellow background with red pixelated text and orange square patterns in a grid layout.
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: symmetrical grid layout

Visible Text

  • RETRO!

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • red pixelated text
  • orange square patterns
  • "RETRO!" text
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • blocky lettering
  • overlapping squares

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711020622132100743501
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
762 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
3cf50b44758974b7
SHA-256
3cf50b44758974b76597834e8998159ce3ce717a74ed3401b6ea82d3a3e88134
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:47 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.183860

OpenAI category scores

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Yellow background with red pixelated text and orange square patterns in a

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 14:18 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,368 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 654

Review tags

  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • vibrant (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • symmetrical composition (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • red
  • orange

Composition

  • four text instances
  • symmetrically placed decorative shapes

Dense Caption

Bright yellow background features four instances of the word "RETRO!" rendered in bold, blocky red pixels. Orange geometric patterns composed of overlapping squares and small dots are arranged symmetrically around the text elements. The design uses low-resolution pixel art style with distinct color blocks: primary yellow for background, vivid red for text, and warm orange for decorative shapes. All visual elements maintain consistent spacing across a grid-like composition.

Description

  • Yellow background with red pixelated text and orange square patterns in a

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
  • 200711020622132100743501

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • playful
  • vibrant

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow retro pixel art
  • red text orange squares
  • pixelated retro design
  • symmetrical

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Yellow background with red pixelated text and orange square patterns in a grid layout.
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: symmetrical grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • blocky text
  • symmetrical composition

Visible Text

  • RETRO!

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • red pixelated text
  • orange square patterns
  • "RETRO!" text
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • blocky lettering
  • overlapping squares
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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
200711020622132100743501
Archive entry
200711020622132100743501.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#200711020622132100743501.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711020622132100743501.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016