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Orange background with white dashed borders and snowflake symbols, displaying repeated text "I hate waiting for you to get online..." in black pixelated font.

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Orange background with white dashed borders and snowflake symbols, displaying repeated text "I hate waiting for you to get online..." in black pixelated font.

Orange background with white dashed borders and snowflake symbols, displaying repeated text "I hate waiting for you to get online..." in black pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF A…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • symmetrical text placement
  • snowflake corner decorations

Dense Caption

The image features a bright orange background with white dashed lines forming four quadrants separated by vertical and horizontal dividers. White asterisk-shaped snowflakes are positioned at the corners of each quadrant. Black pixelated text reads "I hate waiting for you to get online..." in all four quadrants, arranged vertically within each section. The text is identical across all sections with consistent spacing between lines.

Description

Orange background with white dashed borders and snowflake symbols, displaying repeated text "I hate waiting for you to get online..." in black pixelated font.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710132054572040926444

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange pixel art text icon
  • snowflake border waiting online
  • four quadrant frustrated message
  • repeated 'I hate waiting' phrase

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Visible Text

  • I hate waiting for you to get online...

Wordwall

  • orange background
  • white dashed borders
  • asterisk snowflakes
  • black pixelated text
  • repeated phrase
  • four quadrants

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710132054572040926444
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4b/4b36cb2c5ee3b39573b0e52c60bfb483d4c7a316b3efee61951a1e0131ce6559.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC
Archive ID
4b36cb2c5ee3b395
SHA-256
4b36cb2c5ee3b39573b0e52c60bfb483d4c7a316b3efee61951a1e0131ce6559
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 10:00 UTC
Run
1201
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.008986

OpenAI category scores

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Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:14 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089108

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Orange background with white dashed borders and snowflake symbols, displaying repeated text "I hate waiting for you to get online..." in black pixelated font.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 09:54 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,636 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 632

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • frustrated (mood, 0.80)
  • impatient (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive layout (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • orange
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • symmetrical text placement
  • snowflake corner decorations

Dense Caption

The image features a bright orange background with white dashed lines forming four quadrants separated by vertical and horizontal dividers. White asterisk-shaped snowflakes are positioned at the corners of each quadrant. Black pixelated text reads "I hate waiting for you to get online..." in all four quadrants, arranged vertically within each section. The text is identical across all sections with consistent spacing between lines.

Description

Orange background with white dashed borders and snowflake symbols, displaying repeated text "I hate waiting for you to get online..." in black pixelated font.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710132054572040926444

Mood

  • frustrated
  • impatient

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange pixel art text icon
  • snowflake border waiting online
  • four quadrant frustrated message
  • repeated 'I hate waiting' phrase

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
  • repetitive layout

Visible Text

  • I hate waiting for you to get online...

Wordwall

  • orange background
  • white dashed borders
  • asterisk snowflakes
  • black pixelated text
  • repeated phrase
  • four quadrants
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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
200710132054572040926444
Archive entry
200710132054572040926444.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 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#200710132054572040926444.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710132054572040926444.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016