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Pixelated text on a checkered background with alternating pink and yellow squares.

Pixelated text on a checkered background with alternating pink and yellow squares. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-20…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four identical text arrangements

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical vertical arrangements of pixelated dark green text reading "$am ROX your SOCKS !!!" against a checkered background composed of alternating light pink and bright yellow square pixels. Each arrangement is positioned in the corners of a 2x2 grid layout with no visible motion or animation changes between observations.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a checkered background with alternating pink and yellow squares.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080112111807930474464

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • $am ROX your SOCKS
  • checkered background pink yellow
  • pixelated text buddy icon
  • humorous text icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout

Visible Text

  • $am ROX your SOCKS !!!

Wordwall

  • $am
  • ROX
  • your
  • SOCKS
  • !!!
  • checkered background
  • pink squares
  • yellow squares
  • pixelated text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080112111807930474464
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/75/75f816b742a1c52d48439932ddf46425655f7b610b67bb5e3e01e2f0aa7fb6fe.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
Archive ID
75f816b742a1c52d
SHA-256
75f816b742a1c52d48439932ddf46425655f7b610b67bb5e3e01e2f0aa7fb6fe
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:01 UTC
Run
1043
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.115447

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text on a checkered background with alternating pink and yellow squares.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 09:47 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,315 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 599

Review tags

  • bright yellow (color, 0.80)
  • dark green (color, 0.80)
  • light pink (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • checkered pattern (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark green
  • light pink
  • bright yellow

Composition

  • four identical text arrangements

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical vertical arrangements of pixelated dark green text reading "$am ROX your SOCKS !!!" against a checkered background composed of alternating light pink and bright yellow square pixels. Each arrangement is positioned in the corners of a 2x2 grid layout with no visible motion or animation changes between observations.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a checkered background with alternating pink and yellow squares.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080112111807930474464

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • $am ROX your SOCKS
  • checkered background pink yellow
  • pixelated text buddy icon
  • humorous text icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
  • checkered pattern

Visible Text

  • $am ROX your SOCKS !!!

Wordwall

  • $am
  • ROX
  • your
  • SOCKS
  • !!!
  • checkered background
  • pink squares
  • yellow squares
  • pixelated text
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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
20080112111807930474464
Archive entry
20080112111807930474464.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 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#20080112111807930474464.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080112111807930474464.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016