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Pixelated text on a cyan and magenta checkered background with a faint blue overlay

Pixelated text on a cyan and magenta checkered background with a faint blue overlay. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical text arrangement
  • checkerboard background
  • overlay

Dense Caption

The image displays a cyan and magenta checkered background with a faint blue grid overlay. Overlaid on the background is pixelated black text reading "preston and me are over = (" repeated twice in a vertical arrangement. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics. The cyan and magenta squares form a consistent checkerboard pattern across the entire image. The blue grid lines are thin and evenly spaced, creating a subtle overlay on the checkered background. The text appears to be static with no visible animation changes between observations.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a cyan and magenta checkered background with a faint blue overlay

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan magenta checkered background
  • pixelated text over = (
  • preston and me are over
  • blue overlay
  • blocky low resolution
  • vertical text arrangement
  • repeated text
  • cyan magenta

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated text on a cyan and magenta checkered background with a faint blue grid overlay.
  • quarantined wordwall: thin evenly spaced grid lines
  • quarantined wordwall: faint blue grid overlay
  • quarantined composition: grid overlay
  • quarantined retrieval: cyan magenta grid
  • quarantined retrieval: blue grid overlay

Visible Text

  • preston
  • and
  • me
  • are
  • over = (

Wordwall

  • cyan and magenta checkered background
  • faint blue overlay
  • pixelated black text
  • text reads "preston and me are over = ("
  • repeated text arrangement
  • blocky low-resolution style
  • consistent checkerboard pattern
  • thin evenly spaced lines

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711281320051492892685
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/44/44b33e270bedd152bd7bf6cd8ff96b7a7722c413d5685cb69f60692f5dd718dd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC
Archive ID
44b33e270bedd152
SHA-256
44b33e270bedd152bd7bf6cd8ff96b7a7722c413d5685cb69f60692f5dd718dd
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 12:07 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000052

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 25, 2026 at 19:15 UTC
Run
1191
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:55 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
nsfw
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated text on a cyan and magenta checkered background with a faint blue overlay

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 12:02 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,953 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 685

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • magenta
  • black
  • blue

Composition

  • vertical text arrangement
  • checkerboard background
  • overlay

Dense Caption

The image displays a cyan and magenta checkered background with a faint blue grid overlay. Overlaid on the background is pixelated black text reading "preston and me are over = (" repeated twice in a vertical arrangement. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics. The cyan and magenta squares form a consistent checkerboard pattern across the entire image. The blue grid lines are thin and evenly spaced, creating a subtle overlay on the checkered background. The text appears to be static with no visible animation changes between observations.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a cyan and magenta checkered background with a faint blue overlay

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • pixelated text over = (
  • preston and me are over
  • blue overlay
  • blocky low resolution
  • vertical text arrangement
  • repeated text
  • cyan magenta

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: thin evenly spaced grid lines
  • quarantined wordwall: faint blue grid overlay
  • quarantined composition: grid overlay
  • quarantined retrieval: cyan magenta grid
  • quarantined retrieval: blue grid overlay

Style

  • pixelated
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  • blocky

Visible Text

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  • and
  • me
  • are
  • over = (

Wordwall

  • cyan and magenta checkered background
  • faint blue overlay
  • pixelated black text
  • text reads "preston and me are over = ("
  • repeated text arrangement
  • blocky low-resolution style
  • consistent checkerboard pattern
  • thin evenly spaced lines
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:40 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200711281320051492892685
Archive entry
200711281320051492892685.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 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#200711281320051492892685.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711281320051492892685.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016