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Pixelated red border frames blue text reading "This is cool" repeated three times across a black background with a gray rectangle on the right.

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Pixelated red border frames blue text reading "This is cool" repeated three times across a black background with a gray rectangle on the right.

Pixelated red border frames blue text reading "This is cool" repeated three times across a black background with a gray rectangle on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon f…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three vertical of identical text
  • solid gray rectangle on right edge
  • red border framing entire composition

Dense Caption

Red pixel art borders top, bottom, and left edges of a black background. Blue text reads "This is cool" in three identical vertical columns. Each column contains three lines: "This", "is", "cool". A solid light gray rectangle occupies the entire right edge from middle to bottom. Red border elements include rounded squares, circles, and irregular shapes. Text uses blocky pixelated font with blue pixels on black background.

Description

Pixelated red border frames blue text reading "This is cool" repeated three times across a black background with a gray rectangle on the right.

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
  • 200709071540031144473981

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixel borders blue text
  • three this is cool
  • gray rectangle black background
  • pixelated font red border

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined composition: three vertical columns of identical text
  • quarantined retrieval: three columns this is cool

Visible Text

  • This is cool

Wordwall

  • red pixel borders
  • blue text
  • "This is cool"
  • three
  • black background
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709071540031144473981
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
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/76/769e0277db1d34e310be1f97e391aaf168fe517b02e4c032699c01d24a1fa15f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
769e0277db1d34e3
SHA-256
769e0277db1d34e310be1f97e391aaf168fe517b02e4c032699c01d24a1fa15f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:02 UTC
Run
1045
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.162154

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated red border frames blue text reading "This is cool" repeated three times across a black background with a gray rectangle on the right.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 00:04 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,907 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,170, response 647

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive layout (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • three vertical of identical text
  • solid gray rectangle on right edge
  • red border framing entire composition

Dense Caption

Red pixel art borders top, bottom, and left edges of a black background. Blue text reads "This is cool" in three identical vertical columns. Each column contains three lines: "This", "is", "cool". A solid light gray rectangle occupies the entire right edge from middle to bottom. Red border elements include rounded squares, circles, and irregular shapes. Text uses blocky pixelated font with blue pixels on black background.

Description

Pixelated red border frames blue text reading "This is cool" repeated three times across a black background with a gray rectangle on the right.

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
  • 200709071540031144473981

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixel borders blue text
  • three this is cool
  • gray rectangle black background
  • pixelated font red border

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined composition: three vertical columns of identical text
  • quarantined retrieval: three columns this is cool

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky text
  • repetitive layout

Visible Text

  • This is cool

Wordwall

  • red pixel borders
  • blue text
  • "This is cool"
  • three
  • black background
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated font
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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
200709071540031144473981
Archive entry
200709071540031144473981.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#200709071540031144473981.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709071540031144473981.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016