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Pixelated text phrases on a polka-dot background with colored dots and text in purple, blue, cyan, red, green, and pink.

Pixelated text phrases on a polka-dot background with colored dots and text in purple, blue, cyan, red, green, and pink. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text phrases arranged in two
  • dots scattered across background
  • emoticon on right edge

Dense Caption

White background with scattered polka dots in cyan, orange, light green, and pink. Text phrases: 'We're so' in purple with black outline, 'Cool' in blue with black outline, 'Ice the' in cyan with black outline, 'Are' in red with black outline, 'Jealous' in green with black outline. A pink and cyan emoticon with two dots appears on the right. All text and dots are pixelated with thick outlines.

Description

  • Pixelated text phrases on a polka-dot background with colored dots and text in purple, blue, cyan, red, green, and pink.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polka dot text icon
  • colorful pixelated phrases
  • text phrases on dots
  • retro text icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: text phrases arranged in two rows

Visible Text

  • We're so
  • Cool
  • Ice the
  • Are
  • Jealous

Wordwall

  • polka-dot background
  • cyan dots
  • orange dots
  • light green dots
  • pink dots
  • purple text 'We're so'
  • blue text 'Cool'
  • cyan text 'Ice the'
  • red text 'Are'
  • green text 'Jealous'
  • pink and cyan emoticon
  • pixelated text
  • thick black outlines
  • text phrases
  • colorful dots

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100118090501676100815
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.6 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/69/69025252af851416f6a4e5199a1df6cec5f0d26bfc44afcf056399d5a66f0bdf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
69025252af851416
SHA-256
69025252af851416f6a4e5199a1df6cec5f0d26bfc44afcf056399d5a66f0bdf
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 16:29 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000162

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 15:29 UTC
Run
1245
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000494

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:47 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.523782

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated text phrases on a polka-dot background with colored dots and text in purple, blue, cyan, red, green, and pink.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 16:26 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,210 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,165, response 715

Review tags

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  • light green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • quirky (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • text heavy (style, 0.80)
  • emoticon (subject, 0.80)
  • polka dots (subject, 0.80)
  • text phrases (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • orange
  • light green
  • pink
  • purple
  • blue
  • red
  • green

Composition

  • text phrases arranged in two
  • dots scattered across background
  • emoticon on right edge

Dense Caption

White background with scattered polka dots in cyan, orange, light green, and pink. Text phrases: 'We're so' in purple with black outline, 'Cool' in blue with black outline, 'Ice the' in cyan with black outline, 'Are' in red with black outline, 'Jealous' in green with black outline. A pink and cyan emoticon with two dots appears on the right. All text and dots are pixelated with thick outlines.

Description

  • Pixelated text phrases on a polka-dot background with colored dots and text in purple, blue, cyan, red, green, and pink.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic
  • quirky

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polka dot text icon
  • colorful pixelated phrases
  • text phrases on dots
  • retro text icon

Objects

  • polka dots
  • emoticon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: text phrases arranged in two rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • text-heavy

Subjects

  • text phrases
  • polka dots
  • emoticon

Visible Text

  • We're so
  • Cool
  • Ice the
  • Are
  • Jealous

Wordwall

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  • cyan dots
  • orange dots
  • light green dots
  • pink dots
  • purple text 'We're so'
  • blue text 'Cool'
  • cyan text 'Ice the'
  • red text 'Are'
  • green text 'Jealous'
  • pink and cyan emoticon
  • pixelated text
  • thick black outlines
  • text phrases
  • colorful dots
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 21:59 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
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 (2)
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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
20100118090501676100815
Archive entry
20100118090501676100815.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#20100118090501676100815.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100118090501676100815.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016