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three and three displays the word 'The' in light blue pixelated text on a black background, with each containing a distinct symbol below the text

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three and three displays the word 'The' in light blue pixelated text on a black background, with each containing a distinct symbol below the text

three and three displays the word 'The' in light blue pixelated text on a black background, with each containing a distinct symbol below the text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ico…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • symbols change

Animation Summary

  • The symbols below the text 'The' change across the : plus sign, star, x, plus sign, period, colon, period, period, period

Composition

  • text above symbols
  • consistent text
  • varied symbols

Dense Caption

The image shows a 3x3 grid layout on a black background. Each cell contains the word 'The' in light blue pixelated text. Below the text in each cell is a distinct symbol: the top-left cell has a plus sign, the top-middle cell has a star, the top-right cell has an 'x', the middle-left cell has a plus sign, the middle-middle cell has a period, the middle-right cell has a colon, the bottom-left cell has a period, the bottom-middle cell has a period, and the bottom-right cell has a period. The symbols change across the grid cells. The text 'The' is consistently rendered in the same light blue pixelated style across all cells.

Description

three and three displays the word 'The' in light blue pixelated text on a black background, with each containing a distinct symbol below the text

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light blue text 'The'
  • black background pixelated symbols
  • text symbols
  • plus star x period colon

Objects

  • plus sign
  • star
  • x

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of three rows and three columns displays the word 'The' in light blue pixelated text on a black background, with each cell containing a distinct symbol below the text.
  • quarantined animationSummary: The symbols below the text 'The' change across the grid cells: plus sign, star, x, plus sign, period, colon, period, period, period.
  • quarantined wordwall: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined animation: symbols change across grid cells
  • quarantined retrieval: plus star x period colon grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 3x3 grid text symbols
  • quarantined retrieval: light blue text 'The' grid

Visible Text

  • The

Wordwall

  • light blue pixelated text
  • black background
  • word 'The'
  • plus sign
  • star
  • x
  • period
  • colon
  • symbol variations

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100520212003370371762
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
686 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5a/5a27dd412af808c2947dabaddde0b0fd23519883a5546404871c5fc52ac80b47.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC
Archive ID
5a27dd412af808c2
SHA-256
5a27dd412af808c2947dabaddde0b0fd23519883a5546404871c5fc52ac80b47
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:32 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.109138

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

three and three displays the word 'The' in light blue pixelated text on a black background, with each containing a distinct symbol below the text

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 19:10 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,306 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 784

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  • colon (object, 0.80)
  • period (object, 0.80)
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  • star (object, 0.80)
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  • symbols (subject, 0.80)
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Animation

  • symbols change

Animation Summary

  • The symbols below the text 'The' change across the : plus sign, star, x, plus sign, period, colon, period, period, period

Colors

  • black
  • light blue

Composition

  • text above symbols
  • consistent text
  • varied symbols

Dense Caption

The image shows a 3x3 grid layout on a black background. Each cell contains the word 'The' in light blue pixelated text. Below the text in each cell is a distinct symbol: the top-left cell has a plus sign, the top-middle cell has a star, the top-right cell has an 'x', the middle-left cell has a plus sign, the middle-middle cell has a period, the middle-right cell has a colon, the bottom-left cell has a period, the bottom-middle cell has a period, and the bottom-right cell has a period. The symbols change across the grid cells. The text 'The' is consistently rendered in the same light blue pixelated style across all cells.

Description

three and three displays the word 'The' in light blue pixelated text on a black background, with each containing a distinct symbol below the text

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

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  • light blue text 'The'
  • black background pixelated symbols
  • text symbols
  • plus star x period colon

Objects

  • plus sign
  • star
  • x
  • period
  • colon

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined animation: symbols change across grid cells
  • quarantined retrieval: plus star x period colon grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 3x3 grid text symbols
  • quarantined retrieval: light blue text 'The' grid

Style

  • pixelated

Subjects

  • text
  • symbols

Visible Text

  • The

Wordwall

  • light blue pixelated text
  • black background
  • word 'The'
  • plus sign
  • star
  • x
  • period
  • colon
  • symbol variations
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:43 UTC
Run
61
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
20100520212003370371762
Archive entry
20100520212003370371762.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 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#20100520212003370371762.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100520212003370371762.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016