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A static image with a bright yellow background displaying repeated text in pink and green, including phrases like "Im a book" and "paper cut".

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A static image with a bright yellow background displaying repeated text in pink and green, including phrases like "Im a book" and "paper cut".

A static image with a bright yellow background displaying repeated text in pink and green, including phrases like "Im a book" and "paper cut". Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fr…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeated text
  • solid gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

The image features a bright yellow background with repeated text in pink and green. The pink text includes "Im a book", "model ow a model", "paper cut", "fired hired", "fired hired fired", and "Promoted". The green text includes small star shapes. The text repeats across the image in a grid-like pattern. The right side of the image has a solid gray rectangle. The text is rendered in a pixelated, retro digital style.

Description

A static image with a bright yellow background displaying repeated text in pink and green, including phrases like "Im a book" and "paper cut".

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow background pink text green stars
  • repeated text
  • Im a book paper cut Promoted
  • gray rectangle pixelated style

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: repeated text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated text grid

Visible Text

  • Im a book
  • model ow a model
  • paper cut
  • fired hired
  • fired hired fired
  • Promoted

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • pink text
  • green star shapes
  • repeated text
  • Im a book
  • paper cut
  • fired hired
  • Promoted
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200910101810571423964274
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/68/68c342ee924903a81ebb8fcd68006dfd97195757761542dfd438dd19e84f7f71.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
68c342ee924903a8
SHA-256
68c342ee924903a81ebb8fcd68006dfd97195757761542dfd438dd19e84f7f71
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 22:48 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001152

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 30, 2026 at 11:19 UTC
Run
1249
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000509

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000509falsesexual0.000019falseself-harm0.000017falseviolence/graphic0.000005falseself-harm/intent0.000003falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:47 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.477835

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A static image with a bright yellow background displaying repeated text in pink and green, including phrases like "Im a book" and "paper cut".

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 18:55 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,798 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,122, response 673

Review tags

  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • pink
  • green
  • gray

Composition

  • repeated text
  • solid gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

The image features a bright yellow background with repeated text in pink and green. The pink text includes "Im a book", "model ow a model", "paper cut", "fired hired", "fired hired fired", and "Promoted". The green text includes small star shapes. The text repeats across the image in a grid-like pattern. The right side of the image has a solid gray rectangle. The text is rendered in a pixelated, retro digital style.

Description

A static image with a bright yellow background displaying repeated text in pink and green, including phrases like "Im a book" and "paper cut".

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow background pink text green stars
  • repeated text
  • Im a book paper cut Promoted
  • gray rectangle pixelated style

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: repeated text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • Im a book
  • model ow a model
  • paper cut
  • fired hired
  • fired hired fired
  • Promoted

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • pink text
  • green star shapes
  • repeated text
  • Im a book
  • paper cut
  • fired hired
  • Promoted
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated style
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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
200910101810571423964274
Archive entry
200910101810571423964274.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#200910101810571423964274.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200910101810571423964274.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016