Black background with white pixelated text reading "Ew. Why are some people so ew." and four plus signs below, one grayed out.

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Black background with white pixelated text reading "Ew. Why are some people so ew." and four plus signs below, one grayed out.

Black background with white pixelated text reading "Ew. Why are some people so ew." and four plus signs below, one grayed out. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Animation

  • plus sign changes from white to gray

Animation Summary

  • The fourth plus sign changes from white to gray.

Composition

  • text in four lines
  • plus signs in a below text

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text arranged in four lines: "Ew." at top, "Why are" on second line, "some people" on third line, "so ew." on fourth line. Below text, four plus signs in a row: first three white, fourth gray. Text uses blocky 8-bit style. Animation shows the fourth plus sign changing from white to gray between frames.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text reading "Ew. Why are some people so ew." and four plus signs below, one grayed out.

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

  • ew why are some people so ew
  • plus signs with one gray
  • pixelated text ew why are some people so ew
  • 8-bit style text and plus signs

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: plus signs in a row
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Visible Text

  • Ew.
  • Why are
  • some people
  • so ew.

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • Ew. Why are some people so ew.
  • four plus signs
  • third plus sign grayed out
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  • text arranged in four lines
  • plus signs in a

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070801212719480378197
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
308 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 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 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
6b8dc03c104f8911
SHA-256
6b8dc03c104f8911a39a133bb84bb95af244467feebb9e51de61a7a3905ad445
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:50 UTC
Run
1039
Input
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black background with white pixelated text reading "Ew. Why are some people so ew." and four plus signs below, one grayed out.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 17:32 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,904 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 697

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Animation

  • plus sign changes from white to gray

Animation Summary

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  • white
  • gray

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  • plus signs in a below text

Dense Caption

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Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text reading "Ew. Why are some people so ew." and four plus signs below, one grayed out.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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  • 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

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  • critical

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  • plus signs with one gray
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  • Why are
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  • four plus signs
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:06 UTC
Run
52
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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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
20070801212719480378197
Archive entry
20070801212719480378197.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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