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Blue text on a yellow and pink checkered background with repeated phrases.

Blue text on a yellow and pink checkered background with repeated phrases. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to M…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • left remains static
  • right shows distorted, warped regions

Animation Summary

  • The right 's background regions shift from uniform squares to distorted, warped shapes while the left remains unchanged

Composition

  • two side-by-side
  • text centered in each
  • repeating pattern background

Dense Caption

The image displays two identical panels side-by-side. Each panel features blue pixelated text reading "Boston where no I knows my name" arranged in six lines over a patterned background of alternating bright yellow and magenta squares. The left panel has sharp, uniform square edges for the checkered pattern while the right panel shows distorted, irregularly shaped yellow and magenta regions that appear stretched or warped.

Description

  • Blue text on a yellow and pink checkered background with repeated phrases.

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
  • 20080413051941280290869

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue text yellow pink checkered
  • Boston where no I knows my name pixel art
  • two side-by-side animation
  • pixelated font repeated phrases

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: The right panel's background regions shift from uniform squares to distorted, warped shapes while the left panel remains unchanged.
  • quarantined wordwall: right panel has distorted regions
  • quarantined wordwall: left panel has uniform squares
  • quarantined wordwall: six lines of text per panel
  • quarantined wordwall: two identical panels side-by-side
  • quarantined composition: text centered in each panel
  • quarantined composition: two panels side-by-side
  • quarantined animation: right panel shows distorted, warped regions
  • quarantined animation: left panel remains static
  • quarantined retrieval: two panels side-by-side animation

Visible Text

  • Boston
  • where
  • no 1
  • knows my
  • name

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • yellow and pink checkered background
  • repeated phrases
  • pixelated font
  • two identical side-by-side
  • six lines of text per
  • text reads Boston where no I knows my name
  • left has uniform squares
  • right has distorted regions

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080413051941280290869
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/51/51403672bf347546a241b46422eec5b0ccf7fa62bc9abbdab678da2ec2a17b66.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC
Archive ID
51403672bf347546
SHA-256
51403672bf347546a241b46422eec5b0ccf7fa62bc9abbdab678da2ec2a17b66
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 03:42 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000018

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 4, 2026 at 15:50 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000017

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:23 UTC
Run
1037
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.293605

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue text on a yellow and pink checkered background with repeated phrases.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 03:13 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,095 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 702

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • left remains static (other, 0.80)
  • right shows distorted warped regions (other, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • left remains static
  • right shows distorted, warped regions

Animation Summary

  • The right 's background regions shift from uniform squares to distorted, warped shapes while the left remains unchanged

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • magenta

Composition

  • two side-by-side
  • text centered in each
  • repeating pattern background

Dense Caption

The image displays two identical panels side-by-side. Each panel features blue pixelated text reading "Boston where no I knows my name" arranged in six lines over a patterned background of alternating bright yellow and magenta squares. The left panel has sharp, uniform square edges for the checkered pattern while the right panel shows distorted, irregularly shaped yellow and magenta regions that appear stretched or warped.

Description

  • Blue text on a yellow and pink checkered background with repeated phrases.

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
  • 20080413051941280290869

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue text yellow pink checkered
  • Boston where no I knows my name pixel art
  • two side-by-side animation
  • pixelated font repeated phrases

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: The right panel's background regions shift from uniform squares to distorted, warped shapes while the left panel remains unchanged.
  • quarantined wordwall: right panel has distorted regions
  • quarantined wordwall: left panel has uniform squares
  • quarantined wordwall: six lines of text per panel
  • quarantined wordwall: two identical panels side-by-side
  • quarantined composition: text centered in each panel
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  • quarantined animation: left panel remains static
  • quarantined retrieval: two panels side-by-side animation

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • Boston
  • where
  • no 1
  • knows my
  • name

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • yellow and pink checkered background
  • repeated phrases
  • pixelated font
  • two identical side-by-side
  • six lines of text per
  • text reads Boston where no I knows my name
  • left has uniform squares
  • right has distorted regions
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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
20080413051941280290869
Archive entry
20080413051941280290869.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 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#20080413051941280290869.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080413051941280290869.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016