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Green square with four nested square patterns and repeated white text "BRIAN IS KO" across top and bottom edges

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Green square with four nested square patterns and repeated white text "BRIAN IS KO" across top and bottom edges

Green square with four nested square patterns and repeated white text "BRIAN IS KO" across top and bottom edges. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • symmetrical
  • text across top and bottom

Dense Caption

Green square grid divided into four equal quadrants. Each quadrant contains nested squares: top-left has three dark green squares, top-right has two dark green squares, bottom-left has four dark green squares, bottom-right has five dark green squares. White pixelated text "BRIAN IS KO" repeats horizontally across top and bottom edges. All squares are solid green with dark green borders. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Green square with four nested square patterns and repeated white text "BRIAN IS KO" across top and bottom 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green square
  • nested squares
  • BRIAN IS KO
  • pixelated text
  • four quadrants
  • repeated text
  • dark green borders
  • solid green

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Green square grid with four nested square patterns and repeated white text "BRIAN IS KO" across top and bottom edges.
  • quarantined wordwall: green square grid
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: green square grid

Visible Text

  • BRIAN IS KO

Wordwall

  • green square
  • four quadrants
  • nested squares
  • white pixelated text
  • BRIAN IS KO
  • solid green
  • dark green borders
  • repeated text
  • no animation

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100423094541316032720
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/42/4271584de44a0de499f07ffa5620acc96c9782c382faf2fdb80fc6b7c329b6d3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC
Archive ID
4271584de44a0de4
SHA-256
4271584de44a0de499f07ffa5620acc96c9782c382faf2fdb80fc6b7c329b6d3
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 31, 2026 at 22:52 UTC
Run
15972
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.015980

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 10, 2026 at 04:52 UTC
Run
1278
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001157

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.001157falseself-harm0.000468falsesexual0.000064falseviolence/graphic0.000022falseself-harm/intent0.000005falseself-harm/instructions0.000002falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.191853

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Green square with four nested square patterns and repeated white text "BRIAN IS KO" across top and bottom edges

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 18:43 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,561 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 649

Review tags

  • dark green (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • dark green
  • white

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • symmetrical
  • text across top and bottom

Dense Caption

Green square grid divided into four equal quadrants. Each quadrant contains nested squares: top-left has three dark green squares, top-right has two dark green squares, bottom-left has four dark green squares, bottom-right has five dark green squares. White pixelated text "BRIAN IS KO" repeats horizontally across top and bottom edges. All squares are solid green with dark green borders. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Green square with four nested square patterns and repeated white text "BRIAN IS KO" across top and bottom 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green square
  • nested squares
  • BRIAN IS KO
  • pixelated text
  • four quadrants
  • repeated text
  • dark green borders
  • solid green

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Green square grid with four nested square patterns and repeated white text "BRIAN IS KO" across top and bottom edges.
  • quarantined wordwall: green square grid
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: green square grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • repetitive

Visible Text

  • BRIAN IS KO

Wordwall

  • green square
  • four quadrants
  • nested squares
  • white pixelated text
  • BRIAN IS KO
  • solid green
  • dark green borders
  • repeated text
  • no animation
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:36 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20100423094541316032720
Archive entry
20100423094541316032720.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 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#20100423094541316032720.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100423094541316032720.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016