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Pixelated cyan text on black background with white and gray border, repeating 'Boscovs Its Not Just A Store Its A Lifestyle' in

Pixelated cyan text on black background with white and gray border, repeating 'Boscovs Its Not Just A Store Its A Lifestyle' in. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeating text
  • bordered

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated graphic with cyan text on a black background, bordered by a pattern of white and gray squares. The text repeats the phrase 'Boscovs Its Not Just A Store Its A Lifestyle' in a grid layout. The text is arranged in rows and columns, with each instance of the phrase appearing multiple times. The border consists of alternating white and gray squares, creating a checkered pattern around the edges. The overall style is retro and pixelated, typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on black background with white and gray border, repeating 'Boscovs Its Not Just A Store Its A Lifestyle' in

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Boscovs Its Not Just A Store Its A Lifestyle
  • cyan text black background
  • pixelated
  • checkered border

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated cyan text on black background with white and gray border, repeating 'Boscovs Its Not Just A Store Its A Lifestyle' in grid layout.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid layout

Visible Text

  • Boscovs
  • Its Not Just A Store
  • Its A Lifestyle

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black background
  • white and gray border
  • Boscovs
  • Its Not Just A Store
  • Its A Lifestyle
  • pixelated
  • repeating text
  • checkered border

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070902175956421429731
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
907 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6d/6d574c6834fd33863f97fff2b4218cb6994d92ca51ef776dd6130813460dec01.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
6d574c6834fd3386
SHA-256
6d574c6834fd33863f97fff2b4218cb6994d92ca51ef776dd6130813460dec01
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 09:26 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000031

OpenAI category scores

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Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:51 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083817

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated cyan text on black background with white and gray border, repeating 'Boscovs Its Not Just A Store Its A Lifestyle' in

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 09:21 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,649 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 618

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • repeating text
  • bordered

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated graphic with cyan text on a black background, bordered by a pattern of white and gray squares. The text repeats the phrase 'Boscovs Its Not Just A Store Its A Lifestyle' in a grid layout. The text is arranged in rows and columns, with each instance of the phrase appearing multiple times. The border consists of alternating white and gray squares, creating a checkered pattern around the edges. The overall style is retro and pixelated, typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on black background with white and gray border, repeating 'Boscovs Its Not Just A Store Its A Lifestyle' in

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Boscovs Its Not Just A Store Its A Lifestyle
  • cyan text black background
  • pixelated
  • checkered border

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated cyan text on black background with white and gray border, repeating 'Boscovs Its Not Just A Store Its A Lifestyle' in grid layout.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • Boscovs
  • Its Not Just A Store
  • Its A Lifestyle

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black background
  • white and gray border
  • Boscovs
  • Its Not Just A Store
  • Its A Lifestyle
  • pixelated
  • repeating text
  • checkered border
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 14:00 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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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
20070902175956421429731
Archive entry
20070902175956421429731.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#20070902175956421429731.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070902175956421429731.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016