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Four identical pixelated squares with cyan and pink borders display "BRUNETTES R THE BEST !" text in black block letters.

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Four identical pixelated squares with cyan and pink borders display "BRUNETTES R THE BEST !" text in black block letters.

Four identical pixelated squares with cyan and pink borders display "BRUNETTES R THE BEST !" text in black block letters. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical borders

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated squares arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each square has a cyan outer border and a pink inner border. Centered text reads "BRUNETTES" in black block letters at the top, "R" in black block letters below it, "THE" in black block letters below "R", "BEST" in black block letters below "THE", and "!" in black block letters at the bottom. The background is cyan. The squares are identical in all four positions.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated squares with cyan and pink borders display "BRUNETTES R THE BEST !" text in black block letters.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brunettes r the best
  • cyan pink border
  • pixelated text
  • brunettes r the best !
  • block letters cyan border
  • cyan pink border text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: brunettes r the best 2x2
  • quarantined retrieval: brunettes r the best grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid

Visible Text

  • BRUNETTES
  • R
  • THE
  • BEST
  • !

Wordwall

  • cyan border
  • pink border
  • black text
  • BRUNETTES
  • R
  • THE
  • BEST
  • !
  • pixelated
  • identical squares
  • text layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708080744451107954298
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
842 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
47dd7b093a22a5a4
SHA-256
47dd7b093a22a5a41f73f17f8254a1eebb2066edd675c22e69223bd2c0555aa5
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 12, 2026 at 12:43 UTC
Run
1284
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000600

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:58 UTC
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107
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four identical pixelated squares with cyan and pink borders display "BRUNETTES R THE BEST !" text in black block letters.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 20:33 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,048 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 655

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • block letters (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • pink
  • black

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical borders

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated squares arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each square has a cyan outer border and a pink inner border. Centered text reads "BRUNETTES" in black block letters at the top, "R" in black block letters below it, "THE" in black block letters below "R", "BEST" in black block letters below "THE", and "!" in black block letters at the bottom. The background is cyan. The squares are identical in all four positions.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated squares with cyan and pink borders display "BRUNETTES R THE BEST !" text in black block letters.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brunettes r the best
  • cyan pink border
  • pixelated text
  • brunettes r the best !
  • block letters cyan border
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Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid

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  • pixelated
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  • BRUNETTES
  • R
  • THE
  • BEST
  • !

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  • cyan border
  • pink border
  • black text
  • BRUNETTES
  • R
  • THE
  • BEST
  • !
  • pixelated
  • identical squares
  • text layout
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:49 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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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
200708080744451107954298
Archive entry
200708080744451107954298.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#200708080744451107954298.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708080744451107954298.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016