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Pixelated of red, teal, and gray squares with four instances of distorted text reading "DAVE" in black

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Pixelated of red, teal, and gray squares with four instances of distorted text reading "DAVE" in black

Pixelated of red, teal, and gray squares with four instances of distorted text reading "DAVE" in black. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; the image appears static.

Composition

  • four text instances
  • repeating square background

Dense Caption

The image consists of a grid of square pixels in red, teal, and gray. Four instances of the text "DAVE" appear in black, each rendered with a distorted, pixelated effect. The text is positioned in the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right quadrants of the grid. The background is a repeating pattern of red, teal, and gray squares. No animation is visible in the provided frame.

Description

  • Pixelated of red, teal, and gray squares with four instances of distorted text reading "DAVE" in black

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
  • 201003260057161911959899

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red teal gray pixelated
  • four DAVE texts
  • distorted black text
  • repeating square background

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image appears to be a static frame; no motion is observed.
  • quarantined description: Pixelated grid of red, teal, and gray squares with four instances of distorted text reading "DAVE" in black.
  • quarantined wordwall: pixelated grid
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: red teal gray pixelated grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • DAVE

Wordwall

  • red squares
  • teal squares
  • gray squares
  • four "DAVE" texts
  • distorted text
  • pixelated
  • black text
  • repeating background
  • top-left text
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left text
  • bottom-right text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201003260057161911959899
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7f/7fe7f7a89486845aa812ce9bb241f17e33fdc60502fe8d76a0957b83ed622b7f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC
Archive ID
7fe7f7a89486845a
SHA-256
7fe7f7a89486845aa812ce9bb241f17e33fdc60502fe8d76a0957b83ed622b7f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:21 UTC
Run
1093
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093727

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.923023onnx/unsafe0.093727onnx/nsfw0.050098onnx/nsfl0.043629
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated of red, teal, and gray squares with four instances of distorted text reading "DAVE" in black

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 18:04 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,796 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 812

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • distorted (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; the image appears static.

Colors

  • red
  • teal
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • four text instances
  • repeating square background

Dense Caption

The image consists of a grid of square pixels in red, teal, and gray. Four instances of the text "DAVE" appear in black, each rendered with a distorted, pixelated effect. The text is positioned in the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right quadrants of the grid. The background is a repeating pattern of red, teal, and gray squares. No animation is visible in the provided frame.

Description

  • Pixelated of red, teal, and gray squares with four instances of distorted text reading "DAVE" in black

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
  • 201003260057161911959899

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red teal gray pixelated
  • four DAVE texts
  • distorted black text
  • repeating square background

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image appears to be a static frame; no motion is observed.
  • quarantined description: Pixelated grid of red, teal, and gray squares with four instances of distorted text reading "DAVE" in black.
  • quarantined wordwall: pixelated grid
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: red teal gray pixelated grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • distorted

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • DAVE

Wordwall

  • red squares
  • teal squares
  • gray squares
  • four "DAVE" texts
  • distorted text
  • pixelated
  • black text
  • repeating background
  • top-left text
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left text
  • bottom-right text
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:25 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
201003260057161911959899
Archive entry
201003260057161911959899.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 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#201003260057161911959899.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201003260057161911959899.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016