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green and blue pixelated squares with yellow text alternating between 'normal' and 'overated' in a repeating pattern

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green and blue pixelated squares with yellow text alternating between 'normal' and 'overated' in a repeating pattern

green and blue pixelated squares with yellow text alternating between 'normal' and 'overated' in a repeating pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text alternation
  • checkered background

Dense Caption

The image consists of a grid of green and blue pixelated squares. Yellow text appears in the grid, alternating between 'normal' and 'overated' in a repeating pattern. The text 'is' appears in yellow between the rows of 'normal' and 'overated' text. The background is a blue and green checkered pattern. The text is rendered in a pixelated font typical of early digital graphics. The image has no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • green and blue pixelated squares with yellow text alternating between 'normal' and 'overated' in a repeating pattern

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green blue pixelated squares
  • yellow text normal overated
  • is text alternation
  • checkered background
  • pixelated font
  • repeating pattern
  • text alternation
  • blue green background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of green and blue pixelated squares with yellow text alternating between 'normal' and 'overated' in a repeating pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated font grid

Visible Text

  • normal
  • is
  • overated

Wordwall

  • green and blue pixelated squares
  • yellow text
  • normal
  • overated
  • is
  • repeating pattern
  • checkered background
  • pixelated font
  • text alternation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708161453001973540668
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (12 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6c/6cc2de0ae1f0f3ff101d12ca5b7d059f4993319918b1d1b194cf39df8c7c89cf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
6cc2de0ae1f0f3ff
SHA-256
6cc2de0ae1f0f3ff101d12ca5b7d059f4993319918b1d1b194cf39df8c7c89cf
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:51 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.098468

OpenAI category scores

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

green and blue pixelated squares with yellow text alternating between 'normal' and 'overated' in a repeating pattern

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 00:40 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,842 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,123, response 670

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • green
  • yellow

Composition

  • text alternation
  • checkered background

Dense Caption

The image consists of a grid of green and blue pixelated squares. Yellow text appears in the grid, alternating between 'normal' and 'overated' in a repeating pattern. The text 'is' appears in yellow between the rows of 'normal' and 'overated' text. The background is a blue and green checkered pattern. The text is rendered in a pixelated font typical of early digital graphics. The image has no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • green and blue pixelated squares with yellow text alternating between 'normal' and 'overated' in a repeating pattern

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green blue pixelated squares
  • yellow text normal overated
  • is text alternation
  • checkered background
  • pixelated font
  • repeating pattern
  • text alternation
  • blue green background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of green and blue pixelated squares with yellow text alternating between 'normal' and 'overated' in a repeating pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated font grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • repeating pattern

Visible Text

  • normal
  • is
  • overated

Wordwall

  • green and blue pixelated squares
  • yellow text
  • normal
  • overated
  • is
  • repeating pattern
  • checkered background
  • pixelated font
  • text alternation
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:53 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)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200708161453001973540668
Archive entry
200708161453001973540668.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#200708161453001973540668.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708161453001973540668.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016