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Red text reading 'Michael' repeated across a blue background with scattered orange dots, with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

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Red text reading 'Michael' repeated across a blue background with scattered orange dots, with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

Red text reading 'Michael' repeated across a blue background with scattered orange dots, with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text
  • scattered dots
  • corner rectangle

Dense Caption

The image displays a blue background with scattered orange dots. Red text reading 'Michael' appears in a grid pattern across the image, with four rows and four columns of the text. The bottom-right corner contains a solid gray rectangle. The text is rendered in a pixelated font. The image has a static appearance with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Red text reading 'Michael' repeated across a blue background with scattered orange dots, with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Michael text
  • blue background orange dots
  • red text gray rectangle
  • pixelated Michael
  • pattern Michael
  • blue orange red gray
  • text scattered dots
  • Michael blue background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: Michael grid blue background
  • quarantined retrieval: text grid scattered dots
  • quarantined retrieval: grid pattern Michael
  • quarantined retrieval: Michael text grid

Visible Text

  • Michael

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • orange dots
  • red text
  • Michael
  • pattern
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated font
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708072052012040855585
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7a/7a2fb2261820d89b3ffde974f010d8fec4cd459ed9689ba824a78aea9511c5e4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
7a2fb2261820d89b
SHA-256
7a2fb2261820d89b3ffde974f010d8fec4cd459ed9689ba824a78aea9511c5e4
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:08 UTC
Run
1063
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091677

OpenAI category scores

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

Red text reading 'Michael' repeated across a blue background with scattered orange dots, with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 20:29 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,968 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,121, response 615

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • orange
  • red
  • gray

Composition

  • text
  • scattered dots
  • corner rectangle

Dense Caption

The image displays a blue background with scattered orange dots. Red text reading 'Michael' appears in a grid pattern across the image, with four rows and four columns of the text. The bottom-right corner contains a solid gray rectangle. The text is rendered in a pixelated font. The image has a static appearance with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Red text reading 'Michael' repeated across a blue background with scattered orange dots, with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Michael text
  • blue background orange dots
  • red text gray rectangle
  • pixelated Michael
  • pattern Michael
  • blue orange red gray
  • text scattered dots
  • Michael blue background

Objects

  • gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: Michael grid blue background
  • quarantined retrieval: text grid scattered dots
  • quarantined retrieval: grid pattern Michael
  • quarantined retrieval: Michael text grid

Style

  • pixelated

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • Michael

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • orange dots
  • red text
  • Michael
  • pattern
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated font
  • static image
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:47 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
200708072052012040855585
Archive entry
200708072052012040855585.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#200708072052012040855585.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708072052012040855585.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016