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Static image with repeated text phrases in pink font on black background, featuring a gray rectangle at bottom right.

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Static image with repeated text phrases in pink font on black background, featuring a gray rectangle at bottom right.

Static image with repeated text phrases in pink font on black background, featuring a gray rectangle at bottom right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeating text
  • scattered white dots
  • solid gray rectangle bottom-right

Dense Caption

Black background contains multiple rows of repeating pink text: 'Shopping.', 'Gossiping.', 'Guys.', and 'A girls life' (with inconsistent spacing between letters). Text appears in a pixelated, retro digital style. Small white dots are scattered across the black background. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner.

Description

  • Static image with repeated text phrases in pink font on black background, featuring a gray rectangle at bottom right.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803241703122083989007
  • 20080324170824431869890

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink text black background gray rectangle
  • repeating shopping gossiping guys girls life
  • pixelated retro digital text image
  • white dots scattered black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: repeating text rows

Visible Text

  • Shopping.
  • Gossiping.
  • Guys.
  • A girls life

Wordwall

  • repeating text
  • pink font
  • black background
  • white dots
  • gray rectangle

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803241703122083989007
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080324170824431869890
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/52/529ed2255c4f88e354c49ac204bd74ed339964305a66e02acab585714a436258.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC
Archive ID
529ed2255c4f88e3
SHA-256
529ed2255c4f88e354c49ac204bd74ed339964305a66e02acab585714a436258
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 4, 2026 at 10:13 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.004964

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 24, 2026 at 07:56 UTC
Run
1179
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000537

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000537falseself-harm0.000481falseself-harm/intent0.000217falsesexual0.000103falseviolence/graphic0.000008falseself-harm/instructions0.000002falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:24 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
nsfw
Overall score
0.841326

OpenAI category scores

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Static image with repeated text phrases in pink font on black background, featuring a gray rectangle at bottom right.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 10:09 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,226 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,168, response 626

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • pink
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • repeating text
  • scattered white dots
  • solid gray rectangle bottom-right

Dense Caption

Black background contains multiple rows of repeating pink text: 'Shopping.', 'Gossiping.', 'Guys.', and 'A girls life' (with inconsistent spacing between letters). Text appears in a pixelated, retro digital style. Small white dots are scattered across the black background. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner.

Description

  • Static image with repeated text phrases in pink font on black background, featuring a gray rectangle at bottom right.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803241703122083989007
  • 20080324170824431869890

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink text black background gray rectangle
  • repeating shopping gossiping guys girls life
  • pixelated retro digital text image
  • white dots scattered black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: repeating text rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • Shopping.
  • Gossiping.
  • Guys.
  • A girls life

Wordwall

  • repeating text
  • pink font
  • black background
  • white dots
  • gray rectangle
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Full source records (2)

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
200803241703122083989007
Archive entry
200803241703122083989007.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 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#200803241703122083989007.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803241703122083989007.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20080324170824431869890
Archive entry
20080324170824431869890.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 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#20080324170824431869890.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080324170824431869890.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016