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Four identical pixelated icons display blue text on an orange background with red square borders.

Four identical pixelated icons display blue text on an orange background with red square borders. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • identical icons
  • text centered
  • red square borders

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated icons arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each icon features blue text reading "Ethan DeJoie (Eopolous) #15 1st base" on an orange background with red square borders. The text is rendered in a blocky, pixelated font. The icons are visually identical with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated icons display blue text on an orange background with red square borders.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

  • Ethan DeJoie
  • Eopolous
  • 1st base
  • buddy icon
  • pixelated text
  • blue orange red
  • identical icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • Ethan
  • DeJoie
  • (Eopolous)
  • #15
  • 1st base

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • orange background
  • red square borders
  • pixelated font
  • Ethan DeJoie
  • (Eopolous)
  • #15
  • 1st base
  • identical icons

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708061509161774895469
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
949 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/74/74e8b9b44c755611158061432b5ff97f691068ec4836f15fe73076f0c4fe75f3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
74e8b9b44c755611
SHA-256
74e8b9b44c755611158061432b5ff97f691068ec4836f15fe73076f0c4fe75f3
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:59 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.117726

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four identical pixelated icons display blue text on an orange background with red square borders.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:47 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,014 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 608

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • orange
  • red

Composition

  • identical icons
  • text centered
  • red square borders

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated icons arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each icon features blue text reading "Ethan DeJoie (Eopolous) #15 1st base" on an orange background with red square borders. The text is rendered in a blocky, pixelated font. The icons are visually identical with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated icons display blue text on an orange background with red square borders.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

  • Ethan DeJoie
  • Eopolous
  • 1st base
  • buddy icon
  • pixelated text
  • blue orange red
  • identical icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • Ethan
  • DeJoie
  • (Eopolous)
  • #15
  • 1st base

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • orange background
  • red square borders
  • pixelated font
  • Ethan DeJoie
  • (Eopolous)
  • #15
  • 1st base
  • identical icons
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:36 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
200708061509161774895469
Archive entry
200708061509161774895469.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
Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708061509161774895469.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708061509161774895469.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016