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red and black pixelated squares with repeated text elements in white and red, showing animation changes in red square patterns

red and black pixelated squares with repeated text elements in white and red, showing animation changes in red square patterns. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Action

Style

Color

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Animation

  • red squares form solid rectangles
  • red squares form checkerboard
  • red squares scatter

Animation Summary

Red square patterns animate through solid rectangles, checkerboard, and scattered arrangements while white text and black background remain static.

Composition

  • repeated text
  • changing square patterns

Dense Caption

The image displays a grid of red and black pixelated squares. White text elements 'K.E', '+', 'B.B', and '<88' repeat across the grid. Red square patterns change across observations: top row shows solid red rectangles, middle row shows red-black checkerboard, bottom row shows scattered red squares. The background is black. Text elements remain static while square patterns animate. Red squares form solid rectangles, checkerboard, and scattered arrangements. White text is consistently positioned. All text is in a pixelated font. The animation changes only the red square patterns; text and background remain unchanged.

Description

  • red and black pixelated squares with repeated text elements in white and red, showing animation changes in red square patterns

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 black pixelated squares
  • K.E plus B.B less than 88
  • animation red squares
  • pixelated text K.E
  • checkerboard red squares
  • solid red rectangles
  • scattered red squares
  • repeated text K.E

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of red and black pixelated squares with repeated text elements in white and red, showing animation changes in red square patterns.
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Visible Text

  • K.E
  • +
  • B.B
  • <88

Wordwall

  • red and black pixelated squares
  • white text 'K.E'
  • +
  • B.B
  • <88
  • solid red rectangles
  • red-black checkerboard
  • scattered red squares
  • black background
  • pixelated font
  • repeated text
  • animation changes in square patterns

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200912021259321110138763
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (12 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/52/52040c1c9e38cd0300fe56aa1d2435ab4d9364181b2be56dacb2d5a8285ecc8b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
52040c1c9e38cd03
SHA-256
52040c1c9e38cd0300fe56aa1d2435ab4d9364181b2be56dacb2d5a8285ecc8b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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
0.095920

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.920964onnx/unsafe0.095920onnx/nsfw0.050708onnx/nsfl0.045212
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red and black pixelated squares with repeated text elements in white and red, showing animation changes in red square patterns

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 20:54 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,433 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,122, response 784

Review tags

  • red squares animate (action, 0.80)
  • square patterns change (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • black squares (object, 0.80)
  • red squares (object, 0.80)
  • text elements (object, 0.80)
  • red squares form checkerboard (other, 0.80)
  • red squares form solid rectangles (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • red squares animate
  • square patterns change

Animation

  • red squares form solid rectangles
  • red squares form checkerboard
  • red squares scatter

Animation Summary

Red square patterns animate through solid rectangles, checkerboard, and scattered arrangements while white text and black background remain static.

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • repeated text
  • changing square patterns

Dense Caption

The image displays a grid of red and black pixelated squares. White text elements 'K.E', '+', 'B.B', and '<88' repeat across the grid. Red square patterns change across observations: top row shows solid red rectangles, middle row shows red-black checkerboard, bottom row shows scattered red squares. The background is black. Text elements remain static while square patterns animate. Red squares form solid rectangles, checkerboard, and scattered arrangements. White text is consistently positioned. All text is in a pixelated font. The animation changes only the red square patterns; text and background remain unchanged.

Description

  • red and black pixelated squares with repeated text elements in white and red, showing animation changes in red square patterns

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

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  • K.E plus B.B less than 88
  • animation red squares
  • pixelated text K.E
  • checkerboard red squares
  • solid red rectangles
  • scattered red squares
  • repeated text K.E

Objects

  • red squares
  • black squares
  • text elements

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • repetitive

Visible Text

  • K.E
  • +
  • B.B
  • <88

Wordwall

  • red and black pixelated squares
  • white text 'K.E'
  • +
  • B.B
  • <88
  • solid red rectangles
  • red-black checkerboard
  • scattered red squares
  • black background
  • pixelated font
  • repeated text
  • animation changes in square patterns
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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
200912021259321110138763
Archive entry
200912021259321110138763.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#200912021259321110138763.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200912021259321110138763.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016