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A black background with repeated pink text '4t friends' and scattered orange dots, partially obscured by a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

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A black background with repeated pink text '4t friends' and scattered orange dots, partially obscured by a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

A black background with repeated pink text '4t friends' and scattered orange dots, partially obscured by a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal
  • scattered elements
  • partial obstruction

Dense Caption

Black background with horizontal rows of pink text reading '4t friends' repeated four times per row; scattered orange dots of varying sizes across the background; bottom-right corner contains a solid gray rectangle obscuring part of the text and dots; no visible motion or animation changes; text is rendered in a pixelated font; orange dots are distributed unevenly; the gray rectangle is a solid color with no texture or detail.

Description

A black background with repeated pink text '4t friends' and scattered orange dots, partially obscured by a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

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

  • 4t friends text
  • black background orange dots
  • gray rectangle obstruction
  • pixelated text repeated

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows

Visible Text

  • 4t friends

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink text
  • 4t friends
  • orange dots
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated font
  • repeated text
  • uneven dot distribution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070830160522232816965
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/52/522c95bdbe980cd3dff3815dfe673b3cef6c635edcfc5d16054c525b2e40444b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
522c95bdbe980cd3
SHA-256
522c95bdbe980cd3dff3815dfe673b3cef6c635edcfc5d16054c525b2e40444b
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 31, 2026 at 00:31 UTC
Run
15966
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000032

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 17:42 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:24 UTC
Run
1037
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.215578

OpenAI category scores

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

A black background with repeated pink text '4t friends' and scattered orange dots, partially obscured by a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 08:08 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,228 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,119, response 627

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • orange
  • gray

Composition

  • horizontal
  • scattered elements
  • partial obstruction

Dense Caption

Black background with horizontal rows of pink text reading '4t friends' repeated four times per row; scattered orange dots of varying sizes across the background; bottom-right corner contains a solid gray rectangle obscuring part of the text and dots; no visible motion or animation changes; text is rendered in a pixelated font; orange dots are distributed unevenly; the gray rectangle is a solid color with no texture or detail.

Description

A black background with repeated pink text '4t friends' and scattered orange dots, partially obscured by a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

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

  • 4t friends text
  • black background orange dots
  • gray rectangle obstruction
  • pixelated text repeated

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • repetitive

Visible Text

  • 4t friends

Wordwall

  • black background
  • pink text
  • 4t friends
  • orange dots
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated font
  • repeated text
  • uneven dot distribution
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:42 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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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
20070830160522232816965
Archive entry
20070830160522232816965.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#20070830160522232816965.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070830160522232816965.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016