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Four quadrants display 'LET'S GO RETRO!' in green pixelated text on red, purple, blue, and dark purple backgrounds.

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Four quadrants display 'LET'S GO RETRO!' in green pixelated text on red, purple, blue, and dark purple backgrounds.

Four quadrants display 'LET'S GO RETRO!' in green pixelated text on red, purple, blue, and dark purple backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Mood

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Source terms

Composition

  • four equal
  • text centered in each

Dense Caption

The image consists of four equal-sized rectangular panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left panel: solid red background with green pixelated text reading "LET'S" (top), "GO" (middle), "RETRO!" (bottom). Top-right panel: solid purple background with identical green pixelated text layout and content. Bottom-left panel: solid blue background with identical green pixelated text layout and content. Bottom-right panel: solid dark purple background with identical green pixelated text layout and content. All text uses a blocky, retro-style font typical of early digital displays.

Description

  • Four quadrants display 'LET'S GO RETRO!' in green pixelated text on red, purple, blue, and dark purple backgrounds.

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
  • 20071104132831875147242

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four quadrants retro text
  • green pixelated let's go retro
  • red purple blue dark purple backgrounds
  • retro digital

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: text centered in each panel
  • quarantined composition: four equal panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: retro digital 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • LET'S
  • GO
  • RETRO!

Wordwall

  • four quadrants
  • red background
  • purple background
  • blue background
  • dark purple background
  • green pixelated text
  • LET'S GO RETRO!
  • blocky font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071104132831875147242
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
593 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC
Archive ID
80e8b3dc73c3a123
SHA-256
80e8b3dc73c3a1239f2bfe9d51aeefe742185d336ab2e468711b16f9cf2dfec0
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:24 UTC
Run
1099
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Four quadrants display 'LET'S GO RETRO!' in green pixelated text on red, purple, blue, and dark purple backgrounds.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 15:10 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,061 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 690

Review tags

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  • dark purple (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
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  • red (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • red
  • purple
  • blue
  • dark purple
  • green

Composition

  • four equal
  • text centered in each

Dense Caption

The image consists of four equal-sized rectangular panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left panel: solid red background with green pixelated text reading "LET'S" (top), "GO" (middle), "RETRO!" (bottom). Top-right panel: solid purple background with identical green pixelated text layout and content. Bottom-left panel: solid blue background with identical green pixelated text layout and content. Bottom-right panel: solid dark purple background with identical green pixelated text layout and content. All text uses a blocky, retro-style font typical of early digital displays.

Description

  • Four quadrants display 'LET'S GO RETRO!' in green pixelated text on red, purple, blue, and dark purple backgrounds.

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
  • 20071104132831875147242

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • playful

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  • green pixelated let's go retro
  • red purple blue dark purple backgrounds
  • retro digital

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  • quarantined retrieval: retro digital 2x2 grid

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  • blocky font

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  • GO
  • RETRO!

Wordwall

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  • red background
  • purple background
  • blue background
  • dark purple background
  • green pixelated text
  • LET'S GO RETRO!
  • blocky 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
20071104132831875147242
Archive entry
20071104132831875147242.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 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#20071104132831875147242.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071104132831875147242.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016