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Red text on black-and-white checkered background with repeated phrases and distorted visual effects.

Red text on black-and-white checkered background with repeated phrases and distorted visual effects. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • checkered pattern shifts between square and diamond shapes
  • text fragments appear stretched or fragmented due to distortion

Animation Summary

The checkered background alternates between square and diamond patterns, causing text to appear fragmented and distorted as the visual layers shift

Composition

  • repeating text layout
  • checkerboard background
  • overlapping visual layers

Dense Caption

The image displays red pixelated text reading "thats how i roll fast and out of contrast" in multiple overlapping instances across a black-and-white checkered pattern. The checkered background appears to shift between square and diamond shapes, creating optical distortion effects where the grid lines warp and overlap. Text fragments are partially obscured by the shifting patterns, with some letters appearing stretched or fragmented due to the visual interference.

Description

  • Red text on black-and-white checkered background with repeated phrases and distorted visual effects.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806271038361172522948

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated text black-and-white checkered
  • repeated phrases optical distortion
  • text fragmentation checkerboard pattern
  • distorted overlapping instances

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: The checkered background alternates between square and diamond grid patterns, causing text to appear fragmented and distorted as the visual layers shift.
  • quarantined wordwall: square and diamond grid shifts
  • quarantined animation: text fragments appear stretched or fragmented due to grid distortion
  • quarantined retrieval: distorted grid overlapping instances

Visible Text

  • thats how i roll fast and out of contrast

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black-and-white checkered pattern
  • repeated phrases
  • optical distortion
  • text fragmentation
  • overlapping instances
  • square and diamond shifts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806271038361172522948
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 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/51/51b44e009d8d659129d9971064cc9831ea8d1bdea697de3ec82c6c2f312ed855.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC
Archive ID
51b44e009d8d6591
SHA-256
51b44e009d8d659129d9971064cc9831ea8d1bdea697de3ec82c6c2f312ed855
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 01:35 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010283

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:23 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.145645

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Red text on black-and-white checkered background with repeated phrases and distorted visual effects.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 09:00 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,571 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 689

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • chaotic (mood, 0.80)
  • disorienting (mood, 0.80)
  • experimental (mood, 0.80)
  • distorted (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • checkered pattern shifts between square and diamond shapes
  • text fragments appear stretched or fragmented due to distortion

Animation Summary

The checkered background alternates between square and diamond patterns, causing text to appear fragmented and distorted as the visual layers shift

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • repeating text layout
  • checkerboard background
  • overlapping visual layers

Dense Caption

The image displays red pixelated text reading "thats how i roll fast and out of contrast" in multiple overlapping instances across a black-and-white checkered pattern. The checkered background appears to shift between square and diamond shapes, creating optical distortion effects where the grid lines warp and overlap. Text fragments are partially obscured by the shifting patterns, with some letters appearing stretched or fragmented due to the visual interference.

Description

  • Red text on black-and-white checkered background with repeated phrases and distorted visual effects.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806271038361172522948

Mood

  • chaotic
  • disorienting
  • experimental

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated text black-and-white checkered
  • repeated phrases optical distortion
  • text fragmentation checkerboard pattern
  • distorted overlapping instances

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: The checkered background alternates between square and diamond grid patterns, causing text to appear fragmented and distorted as the visual layers shift.
  • quarantined wordwall: square and diamond grid shifts
  • quarantined animation: text fragments appear stretched or fragmented due to grid distortion
  • quarantined retrieval: distorted grid overlapping instances

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based
  • distorted

Visible Text

  • thats how i roll fast and out of contrast

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black-and-white checkered pattern
  • repeated phrases
  • optical distortion
  • text fragmentation
  • overlapping instances
  • square and diamond shifts
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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
200806271038361172522948
Archive entry
200806271038361172522948.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 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#200806271038361172522948.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806271038361172522948.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016