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Four pixelated display red text on colored backgrounds with identical text content

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Four pixelated display red text on colored backgrounds with identical text content

Four pixelated display red text on colored backgrounds with identical text content. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four
  • text centered in each

Dense Caption

Four distinct panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left panel: bright green background with red pixelated text reading "BACK TO SCHOOL more like TORTURE". Top-right panel: teal background with red pixelated text reading "BACK TO SCHOOL more like TORTURE". Bottom-left panel: bright blue background with red pixelated text reading "BACK TO SCHOOL more like TORTURE". Bottom-right panel: darker teal background with red pixelated text reading "BACK TO SCHOOL more like TORTURE". All text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution font. No animation or motion is visible.

Description

  • Four pixelated display red text on colored backgrounds with identical text content

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

  • back to school more like torture
  • pixelated text
  • red text green background
  • teal blue pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four pixelated panels display red text on colored backgrounds with identical text content.
  • quarantined wordwall: identical text across panels
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: text centered in each panel
  • quarantined composition: four panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid

Visible Text

  • BACK TO SCHOOL more like TORTURE

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • bright green background
  • teal background
  • bright blue background
  • darker teal background
  • BACK TO SCHOOL more like TORTURE
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution
  • identical text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070903174625500434000
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6d/6ddeb9f4acbbbef865f415ced4358d789e2d3b83fccde9770a53b468f0339f7d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
6ddeb9f4acbbbef8
SHA-256
6ddeb9f4acbbbef865f415ced4358d789e2d3b83fccde9770a53b468f0339f7d
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 23:08 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.032096

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 31, 2026 at 21:39 UTC
Run
1252
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.116633

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:52 UTC
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1039
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sfw
Overall score
0.434651

OpenAI category scores

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

Four pixelated display red text on colored backgrounds with identical text content

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 09:45 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,891 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 636

Review tags

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  • bright green (color, 0.80)
  • darker teal (color, 0.80)
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  • teal (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • bright green
  • teal
  • bright blue
  • darker teal
  • red

Composition

  • four
  • text centered in each

Dense Caption

Four distinct panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left panel: bright green background with red pixelated text reading "BACK TO SCHOOL more like TORTURE". Top-right panel: teal background with red pixelated text reading "BACK TO SCHOOL more like TORTURE". Bottom-left panel: bright blue background with red pixelated text reading "BACK TO SCHOOL more like TORTURE". Bottom-right panel: darker teal background with red pixelated text reading "BACK TO SCHOOL more like TORTURE". All text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution font. No animation or motion is visible.

Description

  • Four pixelated display red text on colored backgrounds with identical text content

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

Mood

  • sarcastic
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • back to school more like torture
  • pixelated text
  • red text green background
  • teal blue pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: identical text across panels
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: text centered in each panel
  • quarantined composition: four panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • BACK TO SCHOOL more like TORTURE

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • bright green background
  • teal background
  • bright blue background
  • darker teal background
  • BACK TO SCHOOL more like TORTURE
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 14:06 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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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070903174625500434000
Archive entry
20070903174625500434000.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#20070903174625500434000.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070903174625500434000.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016