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Red pixelated text on a gray and black checkered background repeats phrases about TV issues, pressing buttons, and success.

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Red pixelated text on a gray and black checkered background repeats phrases about TV issues, pressing buttons, and success.

Red pixelated text on a gray and black checkered background repeats phrases about TV issues, pressing buttons, and success. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical alignment
  • two identical repetitions
  • checkered background

Dense Caption

The image displays red pixelated text over a gray and black checkered pattern. The text reads "stupid TV wont work..wont work.. oo press oo press ON not OFF.ON not OFF.. got it!!" repeated twice in vertical alignment. Each repetition shows identical content with no visible animation changes between observations.

Description

  • Red pixelated text on a gray and black checkered background repeats phrases about TV issues, pressing buttons, and success.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071110153927232223604

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • stupid TV wont work
  • ON not OFF
  • got it!!
  • red pixelated text
  • checkered background
  • repeated phrases
  • frustration relief
  • text-based animation

Visible Text

  • stupid TV wont work..wont work..
  • oo press oo press
  • ON not OFF.ON not OFF.
  • got it!!

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • gray and black checkered background
  • repeated phrases
  • stupid TV wont work
  • oo press oo press
  • ON not OFF.ON not OFF
  • got it!!

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071110153927232223604
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6d/6d213689b2bf2d5d1d38fad8f4e0af08f1bfe67388b31c3e2ec58fba9a2040c3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC
Archive ID
6d213689b2bf2d5d
SHA-256
6d213689b2bf2d5d1d38fad8f4e0af08f1bfe67388b31c3e2ec58fba9a2040c3
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.164330

OpenAI category scores

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Red pixelated text on a gray and black checkered background repeats phrases about TV issues, pressing buttons, and success.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 16:55 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,777 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 663

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • frustration (mood, 0.80)
  • relief (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • vertical alignment
  • two identical repetitions
  • checkered background

Dense Caption

The image displays red pixelated text over a gray and black checkered pattern. The text reads "stupid TV wont work..wont work.. oo press oo press ON not OFF.ON not OFF.. got it!!" repeated twice in vertical alignment. Each repetition shows identical content with no visible animation changes between observations.

Description

  • Red pixelated text on a gray and black checkered background repeats phrases about TV issues, pressing buttons, and success.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071110153927232223604

Mood

  • frustration
  • relief

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • stupid TV wont work
  • ON not OFF
  • got it!!
  • red pixelated text
  • checkered background
  • repeated phrases
  • frustration relief
  • text-based animation

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • repetitive

Visible Text

  • stupid TV wont work..wont work..
  • oo press oo press
  • ON not OFF.ON not OFF.
  • got it!!

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • gray and black checkered background
  • repeated phrases
  • stupid TV wont work
  • oo press oo press
  • ON not OFF.ON not OFF
  • got it!!
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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
20071110153927232223604
Archive entry
20071110153927232223604.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 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#20071110153927232223604.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071110153927232223604.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016