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Red background with white starbursts and black pixelated text reading 'new yorkers are sexy' repeated in four sections.

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Red background with white starbursts and black pixelated text reading 'new yorkers are sexy' repeated in four sections.

Red background with white starbursts and black pixelated text reading 'new yorkers are sexy' repeated in four sections. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fra…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four sections of text arranged in two and two
  • text centered within each section
  • starbursts scattered across background

Dense Caption

The image features a solid red background. White, eight-pointed starburst shapes are scattered across the background. Black, pixelated text reads "new yorkers are sexy" in four distinct sections arranged in two rows and two columns. The text is rendered in a blocky, retro digital font with no visible animation or motion changes.

Description

  • Red background with white starbursts and black pixelated text reading 'new yorkers are sexy' repeated in four sections.

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
  • 20071026154201900386056

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • new yorkers are sexy pixel art
  • red background white starbursts text
  • four sections of 'new yorkers are sexy'
  • pixelated digital font red starburst

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four sections of text arranged in two rows and two columns

Visible Text

  • new yorkers are sexy

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white starbursts
  • black pixelated text
  • four sections of text
  • text reads 'new yorkers are sexy'
  • blocky digital font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071026154201900386056
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
638 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/62/621d84f58d86d19485a58cdb9c534ccd628fc50f42cbdacb19057feafccc364d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
621d84f58d86d194
SHA-256
621d84f58d86d19485a58cdb9c534ccd628fc50f42cbdacb19057feafccc364d
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 12:57 UTC
Run
1201
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.097043

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.097043falseharassment0.005060falsehate0.001217falsesexual/minors0.000015falseharassment/threatening0.000004falseviolence0.000004falseviolence/graphic0.000002falseself-harm0.000002falsehate/threatening0.000001falseself-harm/intent0.000001falseillicit0.000001falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseillicit/violent0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/ocr/sexual1.000000textenrichment/visual/sexual0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:40 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.127407

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.913080onnx/unsafe0.127407onnx/nsfw0.076089onnx/nsfl0.051318
Enrichment records (1)
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Red background with white starbursts and black pixelated text reading 'new yorkers are sexy' repeated in four sections.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 12:52 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,823 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,105, response 632

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • starbursts (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • four sections of text arranged in two and two
  • text centered within each section
  • starbursts scattered across background

Dense Caption

The image features a solid red background. White, eight-pointed starburst shapes are scattered across the background. Black, pixelated text reads "new yorkers are sexy" in four distinct sections arranged in two rows and two columns. The text is rendered in a blocky, retro digital font with no visible animation or motion changes.

Description

  • Red background with white starbursts and black pixelated text reading 'new yorkers are sexy' repeated in four sections.

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
  • 20071026154201900386056

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • new yorkers are sexy pixel art
  • red background white starbursts text
  • four sections of 'new yorkers are sexy'
  • pixelated digital font red starburst

Objects

  • starbursts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four sections of text arranged in two rows and two columns

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • new yorkers are sexy

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white starbursts
  • black pixelated text
  • four sections of text
  • text reads 'new yorkers are sexy'
  • blocky digital font
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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
20071026154201900386056
Archive entry
20071026154201900386056.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#20071026154201900386056.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071026154201900386056.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016