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Purple background with white DC logo and silver chain; three black text boxes read 'hoes', 'before', and 'bros' in pixelated font.

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Purple background with white DC logo and silver chain; three black text boxes read 'hoes', 'before', and 'bros' in pixelated font.

Purple background with white DC logo and silver chain; three black text boxes read 'hoes', 'before', and 'bros' in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered DC logo
  • three text elements arranged in a pattern
  • solid gray rectangle on right side

Dense Caption

The image shows a purple gradient background with star-like light effects. A large white DC logo is centered, overlaid by a silver chain graphic. Three black rectangular text boxes appear below the logo: top-left reads 'hoes', top-right reads 'before', and bottom-left reads 'bros'. All text uses pixelated font style. The rightmost section of the image contains a solid gray rectangle.

Description

  • Purple background with white DC logo and silver chain; three black text boxes read 'hoes', 'before', and 'bros' in pixelated font.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • DC logo purple background
  • hoes before bros text
  • silver chain DC icon
  • pixelated text buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three text elements arranged in a grid pattern

Visible Text

  • hoes
  • before
  • bros

Visually Supported Entities

  • DC logo

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • white DC logo
  • silver chain graphic
  • black text boxes
  • 'hoes' text
  • 'before' text
  • 'bros' text
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811181423541813951559
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/78/7820082cb809e02ed613499eea983ab0cf6ff80a9114a5b11dc1e2f3a1e02215.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
7820082cb809e02e
SHA-256
7820082cb809e02ed613499eea983ab0cf6ff80a9114a5b11dc1e2f3a1e02215
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 09:30 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.107990

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 17:04 UTC
Run
1053
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.134977

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Purple background with white DC logo and silver chain; three black text boxes read 'hoes', 'before', and 'bros' in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 09:28 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,138 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 597

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • silver (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • gradient background (style, 0.80)
  • graffiti style text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • chain (subject, 0.80)
  • dc logo (subject, 0.80)
  • text boxes (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • white
  • silver
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • centered DC logo
  • three text elements arranged in a pattern
  • solid gray rectangle on right side

Dense Caption

The image shows a purple gradient background with star-like light effects. A large white DC logo is centered, overlaid by a silver chain graphic. Three black rectangular text boxes appear below the logo: top-left reads 'hoes', top-right reads 'before', and bottom-left reads 'bros'. All text uses pixelated font style. The rightmost section of the image contains a solid gray rectangle.

Description

  • Purple background with white DC logo and silver chain; three black text boxes read 'hoes', 'before', and 'bros' in pixelated font.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • DC logo purple background
  • hoes before bros text
  • silver chain DC icon
  • pixelated text buddy icon

Objects

  • chain
  • text boxes

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three text elements arranged in a grid pattern

Style

  • pixelated
  • graffiti-style text
  • gradient background

Subjects

  • DC logo
  • chain
  • text boxes

Visible Text

  • hoes
  • before
  • bros

Visually Supported Entities

  • DC logo

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • white DC logo
  • silver chain graphic
  • black text boxes
  • 'hoes' text
  • 'before' text
  • 'bros' text
  • 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
200811181423541813951559
Archive entry
200811181423541813951559.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#200811181423541813951559.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811181423541813951559.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016