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Four display the name 'John' in blue pixelated text against red, dark red, black, and deep red backgrounds

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Four display the name 'John' in blue pixelated text against red, dark red, black, and deep red backgrounds

Four display the name 'John' in blue pixelated text against red, dark red, black, and deep red backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Composition

  • four

Dense Caption

The image consists of four equal-sized rectangular panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left panel: solid bright red background with blue pixelated text reading 'John'. Top-right panel: solid dark red background with blue pixelated text reading 'John'. Bottom-left panel: solid black background with blue pixelated text reading 'John'. Bottom-right panel: solid deep red background with blue pixelated text reading 'John'. All panels contain identical text. Text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Four display the name 'John' in blue pixelated text against red, dark red, black, and deep red backgrounds

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four john text
  • red dark red black deep red backgrounds
  • blue pixelated john
  • blue text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four panels display the name 'John' in blue pixelated text against red, dark red, black, and deep red backgrounds.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined wordwall: four panels
  • quarantined composition: four panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid blue text
  • quarantined retrieval: four panels john text

Visible Text

  • John

Visually Supported Entities

  • John

Wordwall

  • four
  • blue pixelated text
  • 'John' text
  • bright red background
  • dark red background
  • black background
  • deep red background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807060933001047626411
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/67/6727bd6549e14b2d6b9baa7a900be41d33de40f650fd6bf6ba7870558112abb0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
6727bd6549e14b2d
SHA-256
6727bd6549e14b2d6b9baa7a900be41d33de40f650fd6bf6ba7870558112abb0
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:45 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.103114

OpenAI category scores

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Four display the name 'John' in blue pixelated text against red, dark red, black, and deep red backgrounds

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 10:50 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,378 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 611

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark red (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • dark red
  • black
  • blue

Composition

  • four

Dense Caption

The image consists of four equal-sized rectangular panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left panel: solid bright red background with blue pixelated text reading 'John'. Top-right panel: solid dark red background with blue pixelated text reading 'John'. Bottom-left panel: solid black background with blue pixelated text reading 'John'. Bottom-right panel: solid deep red background with blue pixelated text reading 'John'. All panels contain identical text. Text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Four display the name 'John' in blue pixelated text against red, dark red, black, and deep red backgrounds

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four john text
  • red dark red black deep red backgrounds
  • blue pixelated john
  • blue text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four panels display the name 'John' in blue pixelated text against red, dark red, black, and deep red backgrounds.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined wordwall: four panels
  • quarantined composition: four panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid blue text
  • quarantined retrieval: four panels john text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • John

Visually Supported Entities

  • John

Wordwall

  • four
  • blue pixelated text
  • 'John' text
  • bright red background
  • dark red background
  • black background
  • deep red background
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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
200807060933001047626411
Archive entry
200807060933001047626411.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#200807060933001047626411.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807060933001047626411.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016