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six pixelated images with overlaid text in bright colors, each depicting distinct subjects and phrases

six pixelated images with overlaid text in bright colors, each depicting distinct subjects and phrases. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text overlaid on subjects
  • varied backgrounds per

Dense Caption

Six square panels arranged in a 2x3 grid. Top-left: beige background with brown vertical line; top-middle: green grassy field with two gray sheep; top-right: cartoon character with dark hair wearing red headband and white shirt; bottom-left: black background with partial figure holding object; bottom-middle: light-colored surface with pink text overlay; bottom-right: yellow text on black background. All panels feature bold, pixelated text in bright colors (magenta, cyan, red, green, pink, yellow) overlaid across subjects.

Description

  • six pixelated images with overlaid text in bright colors, each depicting distinct subjects and phrases

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sheep text overlay
  • cartoon character text overlay
  • pixelated text
  • magenta cyan red green pink yellow text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of six pixelated images with overlaid text in bright colors, each depicting distinct subjects and phrases.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x3 grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: six square panels
  • quarantined composition: varied backgrounds per panel
  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid text

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • GNOC
  • LAMB!
  • CHOP
  • DUNKIN
  • ASTERIE
  • ONUTS
  • EMIL
  • AUR, N
  • RANI

Visually Supported Entities

  • text overlays

Wordwall

  • six square
  • beige background top-left
  • green grassy field top-middle
  • two gray sheep top-middle
  • cartoon character top-right
  • black background bottom-left
  • pink text overlay bottom-middle
  • yellow text overlay bottom-right
  • magenta text top-left
  • cyan text top-middle
  • red text top-right
  • green text bottom-left
  • light-colored surface bottom-middle
  • black background bottom-right

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812081333371522511982
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
7.2 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/65/650aab1fad144e296cb309e3b67898333fa7629e4bd824327c987d6e4b910aac.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC
Archive ID
650aab1fad144e29
SHA-256
650aab1fad144e296cb309e3b67898333fa7629e4bd824327c987d6e4b910aac
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 12:58 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000518

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000518falsesexual0.000073falseharassment0.000048falseillicit0.000021falseviolence/graphic0.000015falseself-harm0.000012falsehate0.000007falseharassment/threatening0.000004falseillicit/violent0.000003falseself-harm/intent0.000003falseself-harm/instructions0.000002falsesexual/minors0.000001falsehate/threatening0.000000false
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 24, 2026 at 01:54 UTC
Run
1171
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010287

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.010287falseself-harm0.000522falseself-harm/intent0.000219falseself-harm/instructions0.000215falsesexual0.000078falseviolence/graphic0.000043falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:43 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.892551

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.921485onnx/unsafe0.892551onnx/nsfw0.859670onnx/nsfl0.032882
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

six pixelated images with overlaid text in bright colors, each depicting distinct subjects and phrases

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 12:53 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,930 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,166, response 741

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • headband top right (object, 0.80)
  • vertical line top left (object, 0.80)
  • bold text overlay (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)
  • partial figure (subject, 0.80)
  • sheep (subject, 0.80)
  • text overlays (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • magenta
  • cyan
  • red
  • green
  • pink
  • yellow
  • beige
  • gray
  • black
  • white
  • brown
  • light-colored surface

Composition

  • text overlaid on subjects
  • varied backgrounds per

Dense Caption

Six square panels arranged in a 2x3 grid. Top-left: beige background with brown vertical line; top-middle: green grassy field with two gray sheep; top-right: cartoon character with dark hair wearing red headband and white shirt; bottom-left: black background with partial figure holding object; bottom-middle: light-colored surface with pink text overlay; bottom-right: yellow text on black background. All panels feature bold, pixelated text in bright colors (magenta, cyan, red, green, pink, yellow) overlaid across subjects.

Description

  • six pixelated images with overlaid text in bright colors, each depicting distinct subjects and phrases

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sheep text overlay
  • cartoon character text overlay
  • pixelated text
  • magenta cyan red green pink yellow text

Objects

  • vertical line (top-left)
  • headband (top-right)

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: 2x3 grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: six square panels
  • quarantined composition: varied backgrounds per panel
  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid text

Style

  • pixelated
  • bold text overlay
  • low-resolution graphics

Subjects

  • sheep
  • cartoon character
  • partial figure
  • text overlays

Visible Text

  • GNOC
  • LAMB!
  • CHOP
  • DUNKIN
  • ASTERIE
  • ONUTS
  • EMIL
  • AUR, N
  • RANI

Visually Supported Entities

  • text overlays

Wordwall

  • six square
  • beige background top-left
  • green grassy field top-middle
  • two gray sheep top-middle
  • cartoon character top-right
  • black background bottom-left
  • pink text overlay bottom-middle
  • yellow text overlay bottom-right
  • magenta text top-left
  • cyan text top-middle
  • red text top-right
  • green text bottom-left
  • light-colored surface bottom-middle
  • black background bottom-right
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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
200812081333371522511982
Archive entry
200812081333371522511982.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 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#200812081333371522511982.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812081333371522511982.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016