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Static black text on white background reads 'pat is cool' repeated in a pattern with no visible animation or additional elements

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Static black text on white background reads 'pat is cool' repeated in a pattern with no visible animation or additional elements

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Source terms

Composition

  • repeated pattern
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

The image consists of a grid of identical text blocks on a white background. Each block contains the phrase 'pat is cool' in black, pixelated, lowercase letters. The text is arranged in rows and columns, forming a uniform pattern across the entire visible area. There are no additional visual elements, colors, or animations present. The text appears to be static with no visible changes between observations.

Description

  • Static black text on white background reads 'pat is cool' repeated in a pattern with no visible animation or additional 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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pat is cool text
  • black white text
  • pixelated pat is cool
  • repeated pat is cool
  • static text
  • pat is cool pixel font
  • text-based icon
  • monochrome pat is cool

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Static black text on white background reads 'pat is cool' repeated in a grid pattern with no visible animation or additional elements.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: static text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: black white text grid

Visible Text

  • pat is cool

Wordwall

  • 'pat is cool' text
  • black text
  • white background
  • pattern
  • pixelated font
  • repeated text
  • static image
  • uniform layout
  • no additional elements
  • lowercase letters

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708041828261158671778
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
527 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4e/4ea8f9f5c49437b8d1c54e72d7413153b76cd6cdffddda921ed998cb0dddd7dc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
4ea8f9f5c49437b8
SHA-256
4ea8f9f5c49437b8d1c54e72d7413153b76cd6cdffddda921ed998cb0dddd7dc
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:19 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086854

OpenAI category scores

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

Static black text on white background reads 'pat is cool' repeated in a pattern with no visible animation or additional elements

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:05 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,378 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 640

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • repeated pattern
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

The image consists of a grid of identical text blocks on a white background. Each block contains the phrase 'pat is cool' in black, pixelated, lowercase letters. The text is arranged in rows and columns, forming a uniform pattern across the entire visible area. There are no additional visual elements, colors, or animations present. The text appears to be static with no visible changes between observations.

Description

  • Static black text on white background reads 'pat is cool' repeated in a pattern with no visible animation or additional 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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pat is cool text
  • black white text
  • pixelated pat is cool
  • repeated pat is cool
  • static text
  • pat is cool pixel font
  • text-based icon
  • monochrome pat is cool

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Static black text on white background reads 'pat is cool' repeated in a grid pattern with no visible animation or additional elements.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: static text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: black white text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • monochrome
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • pat is cool

Wordwall

  • 'pat is cool' text
  • black text
  • white background
  • pattern
  • pixelated font
  • repeated text
  • static image
  • uniform layout
  • no additional elements
  • lowercase letters
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:25 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
200708041828261158671778
Archive entry
200708041828261158671778.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#200708041828261158671778.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708041828261158671778.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016