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Black background with red diamond lattice pattern and repeated white pixelated text reading "don't say 'edward' if you still want your ears".

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Black background with red diamond lattice pattern and repeated white pixelated text reading "don't say 'edward' if you still want your ears".

Black background with red diamond lattice pattern and repeated white pixelated text reading "don't say 'edward' if you still want your ears". Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fro…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four vertical
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • uniform text spacing

Dense Caption

The image displays a black background overlaid with a repeating red diamond-shaped lattice pattern. White pixelated text is arranged in four identical vertical columns, each containing the phrase: "don't say 'edward' if you still want your ears." The text appears to be static across all visible frames; no animation changes are observed. Each column contains exactly six lines of text with consistent spacing and alignment.

Description

Black background with red diamond lattice pattern and repeated white pixelated text reading "don't say 'edward' if you still want your ears".

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
  • 20080809184708448889605

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • edward text warning
  • don't say edward ears
  • red lattice black background
  • pixelated text four

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: six lines per column
  • quarantined wordwall: four identical vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: four vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text four columns

Visible Text

  • don't say "edward" if you still want your ears

Wordwall

  • black background
  • red diamond lattice pattern
  • white pixelated text
  • four identical vertical
  • repeated phrase: don't say 'edward' if you still want your ears
  • six lines per
  • consistent spacing
  • static display

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080809184708448889605
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/60/6036208bd62afea00c242e220b6871f4c11743173f7289e6a82078c58e978a05.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 UTC
Archive ID
6036208bd62afea0
SHA-256
6036208bd62afea00c242e220b6871f4c11743173f7289e6a82078c58e978a05
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:38 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089239

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with red diamond lattice pattern and repeated white pixelated text reading "don't say 'edward' if you still want your ears".

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 17:30 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,914 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 652

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • menacing (mood, 0.80)
  • warning (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • four vertical
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • uniform text spacing

Dense Caption

The image displays a black background overlaid with a repeating red diamond-shaped lattice pattern. White pixelated text is arranged in four identical vertical columns, each containing the phrase: "don't say 'edward' if you still want your ears." The text appears to be static across all visible frames; no animation changes are observed. Each column contains exactly six lines of text with consistent spacing and alignment.

Description

Black background with red diamond lattice pattern and repeated white pixelated text reading "don't say 'edward' if you still want your ears".

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
  • 20080809184708448889605

Mood

  • menacing
  • warning

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • edward text warning
  • don't say edward ears
  • red lattice black background
  • pixelated text four

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: six lines per column
  • quarantined wordwall: four identical vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: four vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text four columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • repetitive layout

Visible Text

  • don't say "edward" if you still want your ears

Wordwall

  • black background
  • red diamond lattice pattern
  • white pixelated text
  • four identical vertical
  • repeated phrase: don't say 'edward' if you still want your ears
  • six lines per
  • consistent spacing
  • static display
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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
20080809184708448889605
Archive entry
20080809184708448889605.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 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#20080809184708448889605.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080809184708448889605.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016