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Red pixelated text and abstract shapes on black background, with 'red' and 'gurl' repeated in red text.

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Red pixelated text and abstract shapes on black background, with 'red' and 'gurl' repeated in red text.

Red pixelated text and abstract shapes on black background, with 'red' and 'gurl' repeated in red text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical text layout
  • central starburst
  • edge splatters

Dense Caption

Red pixelated text 'red' appears in four corners and center-left/center-right positions on a black background. Red pixelated text 'gurl' appears in four positions between 'red' text. Red pixelated abstract shapes resembling splatters or branches occupy the top, bottom, left, and right edges. The central area contains a dense red pixelated starburst or explosion shape. All text and shapes are rendered in red on black. The image shows no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Red pixelated text and abstract shapes on black background, with 'red' and 'gurl' repeated in red text.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red gurl text
  • pixelated red text
  • black background red shapes
  • repeated red gurl
  • red starburst text
  • text-based pixel art
  • red edge splatters
  • symmetrical red text

Visible Text

  • red
  • gurl

Wordwall

  • red text
  • gurl text
  • black background
  • pixelated shapes
  • starburst center
  • corner text
  • edge splatters
  • repeated text
  • no animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807161234161633408977
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
942 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7e/7e1f8735e1b2db1bbd9905f358b5b7a1f857fda34847bd9144364a2865f6aa83.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
7e1f8735e1b2db1b
SHA-256
7e1f8735e1b2db1bbd9905f358b5b7a1f857fda34847bd9144364a2865f6aa83
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 12:48 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.003065

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.003065falseviolence/graphic0.001579falseviolence0.000505falseharassment0.000061falsehate0.000011falseself-harm0.000010falseillicit0.000009falsesexual/minors0.000009falseharassment/threatening0.000006falseself-harm/intent0.000004falseillicit/violent0.000002falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

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EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:25 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079487

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.929431onnx/unsafe0.079487onnx/nsfl0.040927onnx/nsfw0.038561
Enrichment records (1)
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Red pixelated text and abstract shapes on black background, with 'red' and 'gurl' repeated in red text.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 12:41 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,062 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 668

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black

Composition

  • symmetrical text layout
  • central starburst
  • edge splatters

Dense Caption

Red pixelated text 'red' appears in four corners and center-left/center-right positions on a black background. Red pixelated text 'gurl' appears in four positions between 'red' text. Red pixelated abstract shapes resembling splatters or branches occupy the top, bottom, left, and right edges. The central area contains a dense red pixelated starburst or explosion shape. All text and shapes are rendered in red on black. The image shows no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Red pixelated text and abstract shapes on black background, with 'red' and 'gurl' repeated in red text.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red gurl text
  • pixelated red text
  • black background red shapes
  • repeated red gurl
  • red starburst text
  • text-based pixel art
  • red edge splatters
  • symmetrical red text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • red
  • gurl

Wordwall

  • red text
  • gurl text
  • black background
  • pixelated shapes
  • starburst center
  • corner text
  • edge splatters
  • repeated text
  • no animation
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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
200807161234161633408977
Archive entry
200807161234161633408977.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#200807161234161633408977.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807161234161633408977.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016