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Static pixel art displays white text on a red gradient background with black edges.

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Static pixel art displays white text on a red gradient background with black edges.

Static pixel art displays white text on a red gradient background with black edges. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX BuddyIconMaker Free and Shared GIF…, Early-to-Mid-200…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text layout
  • vertical alignment of lines
  • gradient background with corner fade

Dense Caption

The image is a static digital graphic composed of blocky, low-resolution pixels. It features centered white text in a sans-serif font against a dark red to bright red radial gradient background that fades into solid black at the corners. The text reads 'life's too short to date ugly boys' across five lines with consistent spacing between letters and words. Each character is formed from distinct square pixels, creating a pixelated appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Static pixel art displays white text on a red gradient background with black edges.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • buddyiconmaker
  • free-stuff
  • 02
  • 011
  • Wayback CDX BuddyIconMaker Free and Shared GIF Captures
  • AIM customization
  • animated icons
  • dollz
  • Early-to-Mid-2000s Utility/Gallery Hybrid
  • generated-icons
  • generated text icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddyiconmaker
  • free-stuff
  • Wayback CDX BuddyIconMaker Free and Shared GIF Captures
  • AIM customization
  • animated icons
  • dollz
  • Early-to-Mid-2000s Utility/Gallery Hybrid
  • generated-icons
  • generated text icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • life's too short to date ugly boys pixel art
  • red gradient text icon
  • white sans-serif pixelated message
  • 5-line text graphic red background

Visible Text

  • life's too short to date ugly boys

Wordwall

  • white sans-serif text
  • red gradient background
  • black corner edges
  • five-line layout
  • pixelated characters
  • radial color transition

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX BuddyIconMaker Free and Shared GIF Captures

Source title
02
Category
freestuff / 011
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Utility/Gallery Hybrid
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 14:21 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/65/65ee991eff64918ecc6ef0a2043d985c5c06c5820caf1a5c642e90b1948c92d7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:19 UTC
Archive ID
65ee991eff64918e
SHA-256
65ee991eff64918ecc6ef0a2043d985c5c06c5820caf1a5c642e90b1948c92d7
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 25, 2026 at 02:27 UTC
Run
1187
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.197675

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagharassment0.197675falsehate0.008149falsesexual0.000900falseharassment/threatening0.000777falseviolence0.000524falseself-harm0.000472falseself-harm/intent0.000227falseself-harm/instructions0.000221falsesexual/minors0.000027falseviolence/graphic0.000011falseillicit0.000008falsehate/threatening0.000007falseillicit/violent0.000001false

Qwen scheduling evidence

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

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:44 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073699

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.926301onnx/unsafe0.073699onnx/nsfw0.037682onnx/nsfl0.036017
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Static pixel art displays white text on a red gradient background with black edges.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 02:22 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,871 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,043, response 599

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • bright red (color, 0.80)
  • dark red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • assertive (mood, 0.80)
  • direct (mood, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital graphic (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based design (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • dark red
  • bright red
  • black

Composition

  • centered text layout
  • vertical alignment of lines
  • gradient background with corner fade

Dense Caption

The image is a static digital graphic composed of blocky, low-resolution pixels. It features centered white text in a sans-serif font against a dark red to bright red radial gradient background that fades into solid black at the corners. The text reads 'life's too short to date ugly boys' across five lines with consistent spacing between letters and words. Each character is formed from distinct square pixels, creating a pixelated appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Static pixel art displays white text on a red gradient background with black edges.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • buddyiconmaker
  • free-stuff
  • 02
  • 011
  • Wayback CDX BuddyIconMaker Free and Shared GIF Captures
  • AIM customization
  • animated icons
  • dollz
  • Early-to-Mid-2000s Utility/Gallery Hybrid
  • generated-icons
  • generated text icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddyiconmaker
  • free-stuff
  • Wayback CDX BuddyIconMaker Free and Shared GIF Captures
  • AIM customization
  • animated icons
  • dollz
  • Early-to-Mid-2000s Utility/Gallery Hybrid
  • generated-icons
  • generated text icons

Mood

  • direct
  • assertive
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • life's too short to date ugly boys pixel art
  • red gradient text icon
  • white sans-serif pixelated message
  • 5-line text graphic red background

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution digital graphic
  • text-based design

Visible Text

  • life's too short to date ugly boys

Wordwall

  • white sans-serif text
  • red gradient background
  • black corner edges
  • five-line layout
  • pixelated characters
  • radial color transition
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 22:16 UTC
Run
30
Version
v3
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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Source semantic tags (1)
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Full source records (1)
Wayback CDX BuddyIconMaker Free and Shared GIF Captures (wayback-buddyiconmaker-free-shared-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Utility/Gallery Hybrid
Type
Wayback utility/gallery hybrid crawl
Category
freestuff / 011
Alt
02
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 14:21 UTC
Rights
mixed generated and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
online buddy-icon maker free samples and shared generated icons
Original: http://www.buddyiconmaker.com/freestuff/011/02.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20030625210018id_/http://www.buddyiconmaker.com:80/freestuff/011/02.gif