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Yellow text reading 'Charlie' repeated across a blue and cyan checkered background with diamond-shaped patterns.

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Yellow text reading 'Charlie' repeated across a blue and cyan checkered background with diamond-shaped patterns.

Yellow text reading 'Charlie' repeated across a blue and cyan checkered background with diamond-shaped patterns. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical text alignment
  • checkerboard background with diamond transition

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel contains the word 'Charlie' written three times vertically in bright yellow, pixelated font against a background of alternating blue and cyan squares forming a checkerboard pattern. The squares transition into larger diamond shapes at the bottom half of each panel. All text is consistently styled with no variation between panels.

Description

  • Yellow text reading 'Charlie' repeated across a blue and cyan checkered background with diamond-shaped patterns.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow Charlie text
  • blue cyan checkered background
  • repeated Charlie
  • diamond pattern

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: repeated three times per panel
  • quarantined style: grid-based
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: diamond pattern grid
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated Charlie panels

Visible Text

  • Charlie

Visually Supported Entities

  • Charlie

Wordwall

  • yellow text
  • 'Charlie'
  • repeated three times per
  • blue and cyan checkered background
  • diamond-shaped patterns

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081229082937670041489
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
6a9d685d1bd4173c
SHA-256
6a9d685d1bd4173ca9a0e43df20ee2c8f6d7e44ad31fa700aa7e6ba2b540cb76
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:49 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.109224

OpenAI category scores

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Yellow text reading 'Charlie' repeated across a blue and cyan checkered background with diamond-shaped patterns.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,564 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 567

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • based (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • cyan

Composition

  • vertical text alignment
  • checkerboard background with diamond transition

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel contains the word 'Charlie' written three times vertically in bright yellow, pixelated font against a background of alternating blue and cyan squares forming a checkerboard pattern. The squares transition into larger diamond shapes at the bottom half of each panel. All text is consistently styled with no variation between panels.

Description

  • Yellow text reading 'Charlie' repeated across a blue and cyan checkered background with diamond-shaped patterns.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow Charlie text
  • blue cyan checkered background
  • repeated Charlie
  • diamond pattern

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: repeated three times per panel
  • quarantined style: grid-based
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: diamond pattern grid
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated Charlie panels

Style

  • pixelated
  • repetitive
  • based

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • Charlie

Visually Supported Entities

  • Charlie

Wordwall

  • yellow text
  • 'Charlie'
  • repeated three times per
  • blue and cyan checkered background
  • diamond-shaped patterns
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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
20081229082937670041489
Archive entry
20081229082937670041489.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#20081229082937670041489.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081229082937670041489.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016