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Dark red background with scattered red pixel fragments and four instances of white text reading "Argh me matie" arranged in a pattern

Dark red background with scattered red pixel fragments and four instances of white text reading "Argh me matie" arranged in a pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible motion changes across observations; static image with scattered red fragments and text.

Composition

  • central text blocks
  • scattered fragments

Dense Caption

Dark red background with scattered red pixel fragments. Four instances of white text reading "Argh me matie" arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each text block is vertically stacked with "Argh" on top, "me" in the middle, and "matie" at the bottom. Red pixel fragments are distributed around the text blocks, some forming partial shapes. The text and fragments appear static across all observations.

Description

  • Dark red background with scattered red pixel fragments and four instances of white text reading "Argh me matie" arranged in a pattern

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200807151559211604458226

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark red background red pixel fragments white text Argh me matie
  • text blocks scattered fragments
  • pixel art white text dark red background
  • frustrated playful mood text-based icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in any observation
  • quarantined description: Dark red background with scattered red pixel fragments and four instances of white text reading "Argh me matie" arranged in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid text blocks scattered fragments

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 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

Visible Text

  • Argh me matie

Wordwall

  • dark red background
  • red pixel fragments
  • white text
  • Argh me matie
  • vertical text stack
  • scattered fragments
  • static animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807151559211604458226
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
623 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/47/4720bbd57e66d9ec1d4877de3765749f74715da5b975a078b2579b1d47478245.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Archive ID
4720bbd57e66d9ec
SHA-256
4720bbd57e66d9ec1d4877de3765749f74715da5b975a078b2579b1d47478245
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:57 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077128

OpenAI category scores

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Dark red background with scattered red pixel fragments and four instances of white text reading "Argh me matie" arranged in a pattern

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 12:33 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,427 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 852

Review tags

  • dark red (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • frustrated (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible motion changes across observations; static image with scattered red fragments and text.

Colors

  • dark red
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • central text blocks
  • scattered fragments

Dense Caption

Dark red background with scattered red pixel fragments. Four instances of white text reading "Argh me matie" arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each text block is vertically stacked with "Argh" on top, "me" in the middle, and "matie" at the bottom. Red pixel fragments are distributed around the text blocks, some forming partial shapes. The text and fragments appear static across all observations.

Description

  • Dark red background with scattered red pixel fragments and four instances of white text reading "Argh me matie" arranged in a pattern

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200807151559211604458226

Mood

  • frustrated
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark red background red pixel fragments white text Argh me matie
  • text blocks scattered fragments
  • pixel art white text dark red background
  • frustrated playful mood text-based icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in any observation
  • quarantined description: Dark red background with scattered red pixel fragments and four instances of white text reading "Argh me matie" arranged in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid text blocks scattered fragments

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • 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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • Argh me matie

Wordwall

  • dark red background
  • red pixel fragments
  • white text
  • Argh me matie
  • vertical text stack
  • scattered fragments
  • static animation
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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
200807151559211604458226
Archive entry
200807151559211604458226.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#200807151559211604458226.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807151559211604458226.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016