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Red pixelated text on black background with mirrored text and repeated elements.

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Red pixelated text on black background with mirrored text and repeated elements.

Red pixelated text on black background with mirrored text and repeated elements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • horizontal
  • text-only

Dense Caption

Red pixelated text on black background. Top row: 'KOOL BLU' on left, 'KOOL BLUNT' on right. Center row: 'FEEZ' on left, 'FEEZ' on right. Middle row: '50' on left, '50' on right. Bottom row: 'SEXCI' on left, 'SEXCI' on right. Left side text has 'K' and 'L' in 'KOOL' with 'U' in 'BLU' replaced by a red pixelated symbol. Right side text has 'T' in 'BLUNT' with 'U' in 'BLU' replaced by a red pixelated symbol. All text is identical in both mirrored halves.

Description

  • Red pixelated text on black background with mirrored text and repeated elements.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated text black background
  • mirrored text KOOL BLU KOOL BLUNT
  • FEEZ 50 SEXCI repeated
  • red symbol replacing U

Visible Text

  • KOOL BLU
  • KOOL BLUNT
  • FEEZ
  • 50
  • SEXCI

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • mirrored text
  • repeated elements
  • KOOL BLU
  • KOOL BLUNT
  • FEEZ
  • 50
  • SEXCI
  • red symbol replacing U

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711272040071822245296
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
258 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/48/483bfb49fb41534110cbdcbb4f07a70b96356784c17ff97e54bd3afd98c166ea.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC
Archive ID
483bfb49fb415341
SHA-256
483bfb49fb41534110cbdcbb4f07a70b96356784c17ff97e54bd3afd98c166ea
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
0.097694

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Red pixelated text on black background with mirrored text and repeated elements.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 11:58 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,672 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 719

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • mirrored (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • horizontal
  • text-only

Dense Caption

Red pixelated text on black background. Top row: 'KOOL BLU' on left, 'KOOL BLUNT' on right. Center row: 'FEEZ' on left, 'FEEZ' on right. Middle row: '50' on left, '50' on right. Bottom row: 'SEXCI' on left, 'SEXCI' on right. Left side text has 'K' and 'L' in 'KOOL' with 'U' in 'BLU' replaced by a red pixelated symbol. Right side text has 'T' in 'BLUNT' with 'U' in 'BLU' replaced by a red pixelated symbol. All text is identical in both mirrored halves.

Description

  • Red pixelated text on black background with mirrored text and repeated elements.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated text black background
  • mirrored text KOOL BLU KOOL BLUNT
  • FEEZ 50 SEXCI repeated
  • red symbol replacing U

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • mirrored

Visible Text

  • KOOL BLU
  • KOOL BLUNT
  • FEEZ
  • 50
  • SEXCI

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • mirrored text
  • repeated elements
  • KOOL BLU
  • KOOL BLUNT
  • FEEZ
  • 50
  • SEXCI
  • red symbol replacing U
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:39 UTC
Run
53
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)
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
200711272040071822245296
Archive entry
200711272040071822245296.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 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#200711272040071822245296.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711272040071822245296.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016