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Pixelated text 'bub' in yellow appears below large pink, purple, and green letters on a black-and-white striped background.

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Pixelated text 'bub' in yellow appears below large pink, purple, and green letters on a black-and-white striped background.

Pixelated text 'bub' in yellow appears below large pink, purple, and green letters on a black-and-white striped background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; the image is static with no motion elements.

Composition

  • like
  • vertical stripes background

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated graphic with large, bold letters: a pink 'b' (top-left), a purple 'u' (top-right), and a green 'b' (bottom-left). Below the green 'b', the word 'bub' appears in yellow. The background consists of black-and-white vertical stripes. All text elements have thick black outlines. The image is static with no visible animation changes. The letters are arranged in a grid-like composition with the yellow 'bub' positioned to the right of the green 'b'.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'bub' in yellow appears below large pink, purple, and green letters on a black-and-white striped background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20091219200732685077664
  • 20091219201702323148754
  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink b purple u green b yellow bub
  • pixelated text black and white stripes
  • bub yellow text composition
  • green b pink b purple u
  • yellow bub black white stripes
  • bub text
  • green b yellow bub
  • bub text black and white background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid composition
  • quarantined composition: grid-like
  • quarantined retrieval: bub text grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: bub yellow text grid composition

Visible Text

  • b
  • u
  • bub

Wordwall

  • pink 'b'
  • purple 'u'
  • green 'b'
  • yellow 'bub'
  • black-and-white vertical stripes
  • thick black outlines
  • pixelated text
  • composition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091219200732685077664
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091219201702323148754
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/82/824a939a1a0da75033536a4b3d2297bb4747b11d2bf33f58b9b0102f0fe65de2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
824a939a1a0da750
SHA-256
824a939a1a0da75033536a4b3d2297bb4747b11d2bf33f58b9b0102f0fe65de2
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 21:34 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000157

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.000157falseharassment0.000040falsehate0.000011falseviolence0.000005falseself-harm0.000004falsesexual/minors0.000003falseillicit0.000003falseviolence/graphic0.000003falseharassment/threatening0.000002falseself-harm/intent0.000001falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseillicit/violent0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000false

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 17:27 UTC
Run
1105
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.106372

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.912257onnx/unsafe0.106372onnx/nsfw0.074057onnx/nsfl0.032315
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated text 'bub' in yellow appears below large pink, purple, and green letters on a black-and-white striped background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 21:29 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,916 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,155, response 781

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • bold (style, 0.80)
  • graphic (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; the image is static with no motion elements.

Colors

  • pink
  • purple
  • green
  • yellow
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • like
  • vertical stripes background

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated graphic with large, bold letters: a pink 'b' (top-left), a purple 'u' (top-right), and a green 'b' (bottom-left). Below the green 'b', the word 'bub' appears in yellow. The background consists of black-and-white vertical stripes. All text elements have thick black outlines. The image is static with no visible animation changes. The letters are arranged in a grid-like composition with the yellow 'bub' positioned to the right of the green 'b'.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'bub' in yellow appears below large pink, purple, and green letters on a black-and-white striped background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20091219200732685077664
  • 20091219201702323148754
  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink b purple u green b yellow bub
  • pixelated text black and white stripes
  • bub yellow text composition
  • green b pink b purple u
  • yellow bub black white stripes
  • bub text
  • green b yellow bub
  • bub text black and white background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid composition
  • quarantined composition: grid-like
  • quarantined retrieval: bub text grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: bub yellow text grid composition

Style

  • pixelated
  • bold
  • graphic

Visible Text

  • b
  • u
  • bub

Wordwall

  • pink 'b'
  • purple 'u'
  • green 'b'
  • yellow 'bub'
  • black-and-white vertical stripes
  • thick black outlines
  • pixelated text
  • composition
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Source semantic tags (4)
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Full source records (2)

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
20091219200732685077664
Archive entry
20091219200732685077664.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#20091219200732685077664.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20091219200732685077664.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20091219201702323148754
Archive entry
20091219201702323148754.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#20091219201702323148754.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20091219201702323148754.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016