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Red pixelated text "I hang with the nerds" on a purple background with a green glow effect in one frame.

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Red pixelated text "I hang with the nerds" on a purple background with a green glow effect in one frame.

Red pixelated text "I hang with the nerds" on a purple background with a green glow effect in one frame. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • green glow effect appears

Animation Summary

  • The text remains static except for a green glow effect appearing in one frame.

Composition

  • vertical text
  • centered

Dense Caption

Red pixelated text "I hang with the nerds" appears vertically centered on a purple background. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style. In one frame, a green glow effect surrounds the text. The background is solid purple with no additional elements. The text remains consistent across frames except for the green glow effect in one instance.

Description

  • Red pixelated text "I hang with the nerds" on a purple background with a green glow effect in one frame.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708102006311295852690

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated text I hang with the nerds
  • purple background green glow
  • green glow effect text
  • pixelated text purple background

Preprocessing Notes

  • green glow effect is visible in one frame

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • I hang with the nerds

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • I hang with the nerds
  • purple background
  • green glow effect
  • vertical text
  • blocky low-resolution style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708102006311295852690
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/45/45f4074c3f6e38913c3ed1788668e135c5443512a5e5c7ec7c24731476bc36d2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
45f4074c3f6e3891
SHA-256
45f4074c3f6e38913c3ed1788668e135c5443512a5e5c7ec7c24731476bc36d2
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:56 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.117911

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Red pixelated text "I hang with the nerds" on a purple background with a green glow effect in one frame.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 22:01 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,384 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,116, response 717

Review tags

  • glow (action, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • green glow effect appears (other, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • glow

Animation

  • green glow effect appears

Animation Summary

  • The text remains static except for a green glow effect appearing in one frame.

Colors

  • red
  • purple
  • green

Composition

  • vertical text
  • centered

Dense Caption

Red pixelated text "I hang with the nerds" appears vertically centered on a purple background. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style. In one frame, a green glow effect surrounds the text. The background is solid purple with no additional elements. The text remains consistent across frames except for the green glow effect in one instance.

Description

  • Red pixelated text "I hang with the nerds" on a purple background with a green glow effect in one frame.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708102006311295852690

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated text I hang with the nerds
  • purple background green glow
  • green glow effect text
  • pixelated text purple background

Preprocessing Notes

  • green glow effect is visible in one frame

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • I hang with the nerds

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • I hang with the nerds
  • purple background
  • green glow effect
  • vertical text
  • blocky low-resolution style
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:12 UTC
Run
52
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
200708102006311295852690
Archive entry
200708102006311295852690.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#200708102006311295852690.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708102006311295852690.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016