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Pixelated text in cyan on a purple and black checkered background, with repeated phrases and partial text visible.

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Pixelated text in cyan on a purple and black checkered background, with repeated phrases and partial text visible.

Pixelated text in cyan on a purple and black checkered background, with repeated phrases and partial text visible. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeated text pattern
  • checkered background

Dense Caption

Cyan pixelated text reads 'request', 'color', and 'what it says' across a grid of purple and black squares. The text repeats in a patterned layout with some letters partially obscured. The background consists of alternating purple and black squares forming a checkered pattern. The text appears in a retro digital font style. The image shows no motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text in cyan on a purple and black checkered background, with repeated phrases and partial text visible.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200707281902391229856135
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200707281902391229856135

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text purple background
  • pixelated request color
  • checkered background what it says
  • repeated request color text
  • retro digital font
  • obscured what it says
  • cyan text
  • pixelated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: grid layout cyan text

Visible Text

  • request
  • color
  • what it says

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • purple and black checkered background
  • repeated 'request' text
  • repeated 'color' text
  • partial 'what it says' text
  • pixelated digital font
  • repeated pattern
  • obscured letters
  • retro digital style

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200707281902391229856135
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/46/46192f5454781345243d391a0997c30e9c2bb420b30359c1bca42792315a53d8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC
Archive ID
46192f5454781345
SHA-256
46192f5454781345243d391a0997c30e9c2bb420b30359c1bca42792315a53d8
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 29, 2026 at 23:28 UTC
Run
15966
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000015

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 02:35 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000562

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000562falseself-harm0.000459falseself-harm/intent0.000215falsesexual0.000049falseviolence/graphic0.000010falseself-harm/instructions0.000002falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:56 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.250134

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.850693onnx/unsafe0.250134onnx/nsfw0.216337onnx/nsfl0.033797
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated text in cyan on a purple and black checkered background, with repeated phrases and partial text visible.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 15:45 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,683 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,117, response 745

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • digital (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • purple
  • black

Composition

  • repeated text pattern
  • checkered background

Dense Caption

Cyan pixelated text reads 'request', 'color', and 'what it says' across a grid of purple and black squares. The text repeats in a patterned layout with some letters partially obscured. The background consists of alternating purple and black squares forming a checkered pattern. The text appears in a retro digital font style. The image shows no motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text in cyan on a purple and black checkered background, with repeated phrases and partial text visible.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200707281902391229856135
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200707281902391229856135

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text purple background
  • pixelated request color
  • checkered background what it says
  • repeated request color text
  • retro digital font
  • obscured what it says
  • cyan text
  • pixelated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: grid layout cyan text

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital
  • retro

Visible Text

  • request
  • color
  • what it says

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • purple and black checkered background
  • repeated 'request' text
  • repeated 'color' text
  • partial 'what it says' text
  • pixelated digital font
  • repeated pattern
  • obscured letters
  • retro digital style
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:37 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)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200707281902391229856135
Archive entry
200707281902391229856135.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 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#200707281902391229856135.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200707281902391229856135.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016