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Blue pixelated text on a black-and-white checkered background with repeated phrases and partial words.

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Blue pixelated text on a black-and-white checkered background with repeated phrases and partial words.

Blue pixelated text on a black-and-white checkered background with repeated phrases and partial words. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal text lines
  • uniform spacing between lines
  • text centered over background

Dense Caption

The image displays blue, blocky, pixelated text over a repeating black-and-white diamond-patterned background. Visible text includes "awesome" (repeated), "has the kidnas the kids", "i like nick i like nick", and "the best p the best p"; partial words include "merits of merits of me". The text is arranged in horizontal lines with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Blue pixelated text on a black-and-white checkered background with repeated phrases and partial words.

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
  • 200709271428121243603736

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pixelated text diamond background
  • repeated phrases nick kids
  • blocky font merits of me
  • partial words awesome best p

Visible Text

  • awesome
  • has the kidnas the kids
  • i like nick i like nick
  • the best p the best p
  • merits of merits of me

Wordwall

  • blue pixelated text
  • black-and-white diamond background
  • repeated phrases
  • partial word fragments
  • blocky font style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709271428121243603736
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC
Archive ID
55b6f1c54777b3e3
SHA-256
55b6f1c54777b3e3a2b8f26ef7557646a3262c9a73c285a57448526a4b723173
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:38 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.186293

OpenAI category scores

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Blue pixelated text on a black-and-white checkered background with repeated phrases and partial words.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 05:14 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,593 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,118, response 644

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repeating background pattern (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • horizontal text lines
  • uniform spacing between lines
  • text centered over background

Dense Caption

The image displays blue, blocky, pixelated text over a repeating black-and-white diamond-patterned background. Visible text includes "awesome" (repeated), "has the kidnas the kids", "i like nick i like nick", and "the best p the best p"; partial words include "merits of merits of me". The text is arranged in horizontal lines with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Blue pixelated text on a black-and-white checkered background with repeated phrases and partial words.

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
  • 200709271428121243603736

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pixelated text diamond background
  • repeated phrases nick kids
  • blocky font merits of me
  • partial words awesome best p

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • repeating background pattern

Visible Text

  • awesome
  • has the kidnas the kids
  • i like nick i like nick
  • the best p the best p
  • merits of merits of me

Wordwall

  • blue pixelated text
  • black-and-white diamond background
  • repeated phrases
  • partial word fragments
  • blocky font style
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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
200709271428121243603736
Archive entry
200709271428121243603736.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 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#200709271428121243603736.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709271428121243603736.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016