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Pixelated text and small character icons on a split background with cyan, red, and gray sections.

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Pixelated text and small character icons on a split background with cyan, red, and gray sections.

Pixelated text and small character icons on a split background with cyan, red, and gray sections. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split background sections

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel contains yellow pixelated text reading 'hello teers', 'oobye freind', 'lo breakup', 'elcome to th', 'eage year' on backgrounds split into cyan (top-left), red (bottom-left), and gray (right). A small red character icon appears in the bottom-right of the cyan panel, while a blue character icon appears in the bottom-right of the red panel. The text is partially obscured by pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated text and small character icons on a split background with cyan, red, and gray sections.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20081002212045653432135

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text cyan red gray
  • small character icons yellow background
  • hello teers oobye freind breakup
  • franksicons 20081002212045653432135

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout

Visible Text

  • hello teers
  • oobye freind
  • lo breakup
  • elcome to th
  • eage year

Wordwall

  • yellow pixelated text
  • cyan background top-left
  • red background bottom-left
  • gray background right
  • small red character icon
  • small blue character icon
  • text reads 'hello teers'
  • text reads 'oobye freind'
  • text reads 'lo breakup'
  • text reads 'elcome to th'
  • text reads 'eage year'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081002212045653432135
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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/6a/6a47902e9033f509fc68ecc4cc7d61f55f9b260d0a94bffddc50c3fa10bb7111.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
6a47902e9033f509
SHA-256
6a47902e9033f509fc68ecc4cc7d61f55f9b260d0a94bffddc50c3fa10bb7111
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:48 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.125653

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and small character icons on a split background with cyan, red, and gray sections.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:40 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,000 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 719

Review tags

  • static display of text and icons (action, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • character icons (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • small character icons (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • static display of text and icons

Colors

  • cyan
  • red
  • gray
  • yellow
  • blue

Composition

  • split background sections

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel contains yellow pixelated text reading 'hello teers', 'oobye freind', 'lo breakup', 'elcome to th', 'eage year' on backgrounds split into cyan (top-left), red (bottom-left), and gray (right). A small red character icon appears in the bottom-right of the cyan panel, while a blue character icon appears in the bottom-right of the red panel. The text is partially obscured by pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated text and small character icons on a split background with cyan, red, and gray sections.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20081002212045653432135

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text cyan red gray
  • small character icons yellow background
  • hello teers oobye freind breakup
  • franksicons 20081002212045653432135

Objects

  • character icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • small character icons

Visible Text

  • hello teers
  • oobye freind
  • lo breakup
  • elcome to th
  • eage year

Wordwall

  • yellow pixelated text
  • cyan background top-left
  • red background bottom-left
  • gray background right
  • small red character icon
  • small blue character icon
  • text reads 'hello teers'
  • text reads 'oobye freind'
  • text reads 'lo breakup'
  • text reads 'elcome to th'
  • text reads 'eage year'
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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
20081002212045653432135
Archive entry
20081002212045653432135.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#20081002212045653432135.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081002212045653432135.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016