Pixelated character with red face and purple hat displays four text overlays: 'elmo', 'is', 'GANSTA', and a final pose without text.

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Pixelated character with red face and purple hat displays four text overlays: 'elmo', 'is', 'GANSTA', and a final pose without text.

Pixelated character with red face and purple hat displays four text overlays: 'elmo', 'is', 'GANSTA', and a final pose without text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Animation

  • text changes across frames: 'elmo' → 'is' → 'GANSTA'
  • final frame text removed

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change sequentially from 'elmo' to 'is' to 'GANSTA', then disappear in final frame while character maintains consistent pose.

Composition

  • four
  • character centered in each

Dense Caption

Four sequential frames show a pixelated character resembling Elmo in yellow pants, green boots, and a purple beanie. The first frame has black text overlay 'elmo' over the chest; second frame shows 'is'; third frame displays 'GANSTA'; fourth frame lacks text. Character maintains consistent pose with right hand raised, left arm bent. Background is light blue grid pattern. Text uses bold white sans-serif font on solid black rectangular background.

Description

  • Pixelated character with red face and purple hat displays four text overlays: 'elmo', 'is', 'GANSTA', and a final pose without text.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated elmo text animation
  • gansta elmo meme
  • text overlay animation character

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: light blue grid background
  • quarantined composition: character centered in each panel
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid layout

Visible Text

  • elmo
  • is
  • GANSTA

Visually Supported Entities

  • character resembling Elmo

Wordwall

  • pixelated character
  • red face
  • purple beanie
  • yellow pants
  • green boots
  • black text overlays
  • 'elmo'
  • 'is'
  • 'GANSTA'
  • light blue background

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080926181914343467619
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/47/47b30e826c2f6f82972b191e9790931dd524e82b30dc42ae38231f688edd997c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
47b30e826c2f6f82
SHA-256
47b30e826c2f6f82972b191e9790931dd524e82b30dc42ae38231f688edd997c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:58 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080405

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.942994onnx/unsafe0.080405onnx/nsfw0.042423onnx/nsfl0.037982
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated character with red face and purple hat displays four text overlays: 'elmo', 'is', 'GANSTA', and a final pose without text.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 01:44 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,900 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 661

Review tags

  • left arm bent (action, 0.80)
  • right hand raised (action, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • black text boxes (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution animation (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character resembling elmo (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • right hand raised
  • left arm bent

Animation

  • text changes across frames: 'elmo' → 'is' → 'GANSTA'
  • final frame text removed

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change sequentially from 'elmo' to 'is' to 'GANSTA', then disappear in final frame while character maintains consistent pose.

Colors

  • red
  • purple
  • yellow
  • green
  • light blue
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • four
  • character centered in each

Dense Caption

Four sequential frames show a pixelated character resembling Elmo in yellow pants, green boots, and a purple beanie. The first frame has black text overlay 'elmo' over the chest; second frame shows 'is'; third frame displays 'GANSTA'; fourth frame lacks text. Character maintains consistent pose with right hand raised, left arm bent. Background is light blue grid pattern. Text uses bold white sans-serif font on solid black rectangular background.

Description

  • Pixelated character with red face and purple hat displays four text overlays: 'elmo', 'is', 'GANSTA', and a final pose without text.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated elmo text animation
  • gansta elmo meme
  • text overlay animation character

Objects

  • black text boxes

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: light blue grid background
  • quarantined composition: character centered in each panel
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution animation

Subjects

  • character resembling Elmo

Visible Text

  • elmo
  • is
  • GANSTA

Visually Supported Entities

  • character resembling Elmo

Wordwall

  • pixelated character
  • red face
  • purple beanie
  • yellow pants
  • green boots
  • black text overlays
  • 'elmo'
  • 'is'
  • 'GANSTA'
  • light blue background
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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
20080926181914343467619
Archive entry
20080926181914343467619.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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