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Green background with blue text 'otis' repeated in a pattern, some highlighted in bright green

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Green background with blue text 'otis' repeated in a pattern, some highlighted in bright green

Green background with blue text 'otis' repeated in a pattern, some highlighted in bright green. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ic…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • repeated text
  • highlighted

Dense Caption

Green background with blue pixelated text 'otis' repeated in a 3x3 grid pattern. Three cells are highlighted with bright green backgrounds: top-right, middle-left, and bottom-right. The text 'otis' appears in blue on all cells, with the highlighted cells showing the same text on a bright green background. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with blocky pixelated text and solid color backgrounds.

Description

  • Green background with blue text 'otis' repeated in a pattern, some highlighted in bright green

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background blue text otis
  • pixelated otis
  • bright green highlights otis
  • retro digital otis text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Green background with blue text 'otis' repeated in a grid pattern, some cells highlighted in bright green.
  • quarantined wordwall: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined composition: highlighted cells
  • quarantined composition: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated otis grid

Visible Text

  • otis

Wordwall

  • green background
  • blue text
  • otis
  • pixelated
  • bright green highlights
  • retro digital
  • blocky text
  • repeated text
  • solid colors

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201111091225471189222493
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
427 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/84/841008d161c31c60d5d8afb3d77a7be44adc1c21e32b01096b5535ca95ac349c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC
Archive ID
841008d161c31c60
SHA-256
841008d161c31c60d5d8afb3d77a7be44adc1c21e32b01096b5535ca95ac349c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:30 UTC
Run
1113
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089350

OpenAI category scores

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Green background with blue text 'otis' repeated in a pattern, some highlighted in bright green

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 01:13 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,537 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 683

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • bright green (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • green
  • bright green
  • blue

Composition

  • repeated text
  • highlighted

Dense Caption

Green background with blue pixelated text 'otis' repeated in a 3x3 grid pattern. Three cells are highlighted with bright green backgrounds: top-right, middle-left, and bottom-right. The text 'otis' appears in blue on all cells, with the highlighted cells showing the same text on a bright green background. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with blocky pixelated text and solid color backgrounds.

Description

  • Green background with blue text 'otis' repeated in a pattern, some highlighted in bright green

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background blue text otis
  • pixelated otis
  • bright green highlights otis
  • retro digital otis text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Green background with blue text 'otis' repeated in a grid pattern, some cells highlighted in bright green.
  • quarantined wordwall: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined composition: highlighted cells
  • quarantined composition: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated otis grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • otis

Wordwall

  • green background
  • blue text
  • otis
  • pixelated
  • bright green highlights
  • retro digital
  • blocky text
  • repeated text
  • solid colors
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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
201111091225471189222493
Archive entry
201111091225471189222493.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 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#201111091225471189222493.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201111091225471189222493.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016