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A static digital image with red text and green pixelated borders on a black background.

A static digital image with red text and green pixelated borders on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, La…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical arrangement
  • central green border extension

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel contains the text 'giants' at the top, followed by a single quotation mark, then 'gana', and finally 'beast'. The text is rendered in red pixelated font against a black background. A green pixelated border surrounds each panel and extends into the central area between panels. All four panels are visually identical with no discernible differences or motion.

Description

  • A static digital image with red text and green pixelated borders on a black background.

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
  • 20080127081459262642154

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • giants gana beast
  • red text green borders black background
  • four
  • single quotation mark red text
  • pixelated digital art text-based

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined wordwall: four panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: four panels 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • giants
  • '
  • gana
  • beast

Wordwall

  • red text
  • green borders
  • black background
  • four
  • 'giants'
  • 'gana'
  • 'beast'
  • single quotation mark

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080127081459262642154
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3f/3fae9fcc0bfaf992c7fee8702c77a9d826af807b3faa1e09cf0e1096dc1a04d2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Archive ID
3fae9fcc0bfaf992
SHA-256
3fae9fcc0bfaf992c7fee8702c77a9d826af807b3faa1e09cf0e1096dc1a04d2
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:50 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075593

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A static digital image with red text and green pixelated borders on a black background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 13:20 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,852 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 641

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • digital art (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • green
  • black

Composition

  • symmetrical arrangement
  • central green border extension

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel contains the text 'giants' at the top, followed by a single quotation mark, then 'gana', and finally 'beast'. The text is rendered in red pixelated font against a black background. A green pixelated border surrounds each panel and extends into the central area between panels. All four panels are visually identical with no discernible differences or motion.

Description

  • A static digital image with red text and green pixelated borders on a black background.

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
  • 20080127081459262642154

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • giants gana beast
  • red text green borders black background
  • four
  • single quotation mark red text
  • pixelated digital art text-based

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined wordwall: four panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: four panels 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital art
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • giants
  • '
  • gana
  • beast

Wordwall

  • red text
  • green borders
  • black background
  • four
  • 'giants'
  • 'gana'
  • 'beast'
  • single quotation mark
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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
20080127081459262642154
Archive entry
20080127081459262642154.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 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#20080127081459262642154.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080127081459262642154.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016