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Blue background with red pixelated text reading 'wats up my dudes' repeated twice, green and blue pixelated grass-like shapes at the bottom.

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Blue background with red pixelated text reading 'wats up my dudes' repeated twice, green and blue pixelated grass-like shapes at the bottom.

Blue background with red pixelated text reading 'wats up my dudes' repeated twice, green and blue pixelated grass-like shapes at the bottom. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • horizontal band at bottom
  • two identical text blocks side-by-side

Dense Caption

Solid bright blue background. Two identical blocks of red pixelated text: 'wats up my dudes', each block stacked vertically as three lines ('wats', 'up my', 'dudes'). Below both text blocks, a horizontal band of green and blue pixelated shapes resembling grass or foliage spans the entire width. The left and right sides of the image are identical in layout and content.

Description

  • Blue background with red pixelated text reading 'wats up my dudes' repeated twice, green and blue pixelated grass-like shapes at the bottom.

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
  • 20080111175340598715465

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background red text grass
  • wats up my dudes pixel art
  • two identical text blocks blue green
  • pixelated grass bottom blue background

Visible Text

  • wats up my dudes

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • red pixelated text
  • 'wats up my dudes'
  • green and blue grass-like shapes
  • two identical text blocks
  • horizontal band at bottom

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080111175340598715465
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
703 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 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 15:09 UTC
Archive ID
40d595a5ccecff1d
SHA-256
40d595a5ccecff1d39b7dda81a428f386742ecf0633d70732b699c3961623089
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 1, 2026 at 02:53 UTC
Run
1252
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall score
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July 23, 2026 at 07:51 UTC
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Blue background with red pixelated text reading 'wats up my dudes' repeated twice, green and blue pixelated grass-like shapes at the bottom.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 09:32 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,414 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 616

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • grass like shapes (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • green

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • horizontal band at bottom
  • two identical text blocks side-by-side

Dense Caption

Solid bright blue background. Two identical blocks of red pixelated text: 'wats up my dudes', each block stacked vertically as three lines ('wats', 'up my', 'dudes'). Below both text blocks, a horizontal band of green and blue pixelated shapes resembling grass or foliage spans the entire width. The left and right sides of the image are identical in layout and content.

Description

  • Blue background with red pixelated text reading 'wats up my dudes' repeated twice, green and blue pixelated grass-like shapes at the bottom.

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
  • 20080111175340598715465

Mood

  • playful
  • casual

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background red text grass
  • wats up my dudes pixel art
  • two identical text blocks blue green
  • pixelated grass bottom blue background

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • text
  • grass-like shapes

Visible Text

  • wats up my dudes

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • red pixelated text
  • 'wats up my dudes'
  • green and blue grass-like shapes
  • two identical text blocks
  • horizontal band at bottom
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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
20080111175340598715465
Archive entry
20080111175340598715465.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 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#20080111175340598715465.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080111175340598715465.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016