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Pixelated purple text on black background repeats phrases with white star-like accents, forming a dense wordwall pattern.

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Pixelated purple text on black background repeats phrases with white star-like accents, forming a dense wordwall pattern.

Pixelated purple text on black background repeats phrases with white star-like accents, forming a dense wordwall pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • patterned text repetition
  • centered layout
  • dense wordwall effect

Dense Caption

Black background features repeated lines of pixelated purple text: 'you read this here dumb erere dumb ere', 'to look to look', 'o now your ep now your e', and 'BA [dont ask] BA [dont as'. White star-like accents appear between some text lines. Text repeats in a grid pattern with slight variations across rows, creating a dense wordwall effect. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated purple text on black background repeats phrases with white star-like accents, forming a dense wordwall pattern.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080428175544815133282

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated purple text black background
  • repeated 'to look to look' phrase
  • text fragments BA [dont ask]
  • white star accents wordwall

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid-patterned repetition
  • quarantined composition: grid-patterned text repetition

Visible Text

  • you read this here dumb erere dumb ere
  • to look to look
  • o now your ep now your e
  • BA [dont ask] BA [dont as

Wordwall

  • repeated purple pixelated text
  • black background
  • white star-like accents
  • patterned repetition
  • text fragments 'you read this here dumb erere dumb ere'
  • text fragments 'to look to look'
  • text fragments 'o now your ep now your e'
  • text fragments 'BA [dont ask] BA [dont as'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080428175544815133282
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/84/84948d6dfe6377d84aa8112c9275303b19379691a214766b815c97d9b7d11448.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC
Archive ID
84948d6dfe6377d8
SHA-256
84948d6dfe6377d84aa8112c9275303b19379691a214766b815c97d9b7d11448
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 10:03 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.338106

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 30, 2026 at 17:42 UTC
Run
1249
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.016326

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.016326falsesexual0.002743falseself-harm0.000563falseself-harm/intent0.000247falseself-harm/instructions0.000219falseviolence/graphic0.000045falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:32 UTC
Run
1117
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.461030

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated purple text on black background repeats phrases with white star-like accents, forming a dense wordwall pattern.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 09:58 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,936 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 720

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • chaotic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • repetitive (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • wordwall (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • purple
  • white

Composition

  • patterned text repetition
  • centered layout
  • dense wordwall effect

Dense Caption

Black background features repeated lines of pixelated purple text: 'you read this here dumb erere dumb ere', 'to look to look', 'o now your ep now your e', and 'BA [dont ask] BA [dont as'. White star-like accents appear between some text lines. Text repeats in a grid pattern with slight variations across rows, creating a dense wordwall effect. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated purple text on black background repeats phrases with white star-like accents, forming a dense wordwall pattern.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080428175544815133282

Mood

  • chaotic
  • repetitive
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated purple text black background
  • repeated 'to look to look' phrase
  • text fragments BA [dont ask]
  • white star accents wordwall

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid-patterned repetition
  • quarantined composition: grid-patterned text repetition

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • wordwall

Visible Text

  • you read this here dumb erere dumb ere
  • to look to look
  • o now your ep now your e
  • BA [dont ask] BA [dont as

Wordwall

  • repeated purple pixelated text
  • black background
  • white star-like accents
  • patterned repetition
  • text fragments 'you read this here dumb erere dumb ere'
  • text fragments 'to look to look'
  • text fragments 'o now your ep now your e'
  • text fragments 'BA [dont ask] BA [dont as'
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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
20080428175544815133282
Archive entry
20080428175544815133282.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 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#20080428175544815133282.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080428175544815133282.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016