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Yellow pixelated text on black background with scattered yellow dots, displaying repeated phrases and punctuation.

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Yellow pixelated text on black background with scattered yellow dots, displaying repeated phrases and punctuation.

Yellow pixelated text on black background with scattered yellow dots, displaying repeated phrases and punctuation. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text blocks
  • symmetrical arrangement of "Im" elements
  • vertical alignment of phrases

Dense Caption

Black background filled with small scattered yellow dots. Yellow pixelated text reads "Im" at top left and top right. Center displays "A Cheese A Cheese" in large font, below which is "Doodle Doodle" in medium font. Below that are two instances of "Im" side-by-side. Further down is another line of "A Cheese A Cheese" followed by "Doodle." and "Doodle:" with periods and colons.

Description

  • Yellow pixelated text on black background with scattered yellow dots, displaying repeated phrases and punctuation.

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
  • 2008033008515811864828

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow pixelated text black background
  • A Cheese A Cheese Doodle Im
  • Im top left top right
  • Doodle Doodle Im side-by-side

Visible Text

  • Im
  • A Cheese A Cheese
  • Doodle Doodle
  • Doodle.
  • Doodle:

Wordwall

  • yellow pixelated text
  • black background
  • scattered yellow dots
  • "Im" top left
  • "Im" top right
  • "A Cheese A Cheese" center
  • "Doodle Doodle" below
  • "Im" side-by-side
  • "A Cheese A Cheese" bottom
  • "Doodle." and "Doodle:"

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008033008515811864828
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5d/5db0e091c06c06f2d00cc759a91bde233c81770a2d7a31ebbbb7c33249712dde.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
5db0e091c06c06f2
SHA-256
5db0e091c06c06f2d00cc759a91bde233c81770a2d7a31ebbbb7c33249712dde
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:36 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.124345

OpenAI category scores

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Yellow pixelated text on black background with scattered yellow dots, displaying repeated phrases and punctuation.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 21:30 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,804 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 687

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • quirky (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive layout (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • yellow

Composition

  • centered text blocks
  • symmetrical arrangement of "Im" elements
  • vertical alignment of phrases

Dense Caption

Black background filled with small scattered yellow dots. Yellow pixelated text reads "Im" at top left and top right. Center displays "A Cheese A Cheese" in large font, below which is "Doodle Doodle" in medium font. Below that are two instances of "Im" side-by-side. Further down is another line of "A Cheese A Cheese" followed by "Doodle." and "Doodle:" with periods and colons.

Description

  • Yellow pixelated text on black background with scattered yellow dots, displaying repeated phrases and punctuation.

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
  • 2008033008515811864828

Mood

  • playful
  • quirky

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow pixelated text black background
  • A Cheese A Cheese Doodle Im
  • Im top left top right
  • Doodle Doodle Im side-by-side

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • repetitive layout

Visible Text

  • Im
  • A Cheese A Cheese
  • Doodle Doodle
  • Doodle.
  • Doodle:

Wordwall

  • yellow pixelated text
  • black background
  • scattered yellow dots
  • "Im" top left
  • "Im" top right
  • "A Cheese A Cheese" center
  • "Doodle Doodle" below
  • "Im" side-by-side
  • "A Cheese A Cheese" bottom
  • "Doodle." and "Doodle:"
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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
2008033008515811864828
Archive entry
2008033008515811864828.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 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#2008033008515811864828.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008033008515811864828.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016