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Green text on black background with red pixelated border, repeating phrase 'I judge my books by their cover' in four quadrants.

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Green text on black background with red pixelated border, repeating phrase 'I judge my books by their cover' in four quadrants.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four quadrants of text
  • border framing content
  • centered text blocks

Dense Caption

Black background with green text reading "I judge my books. my books / their cover their cov" repeated across the image; red pixelated lines form a jagged border around all edges; no visible animation changes between observations; text is partially cut off at bottom and right edges; four identical quadrants of text layout; red border has irregular, broken segments throughout.

Description

  • Green text on black background with red pixelated border, repeating phrase 'I judge my books by their cover' in four quadrants.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710211631072041840096

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green text black background red border
  • repeating phrase I judge my books by their cover
  • pixelated text icon
  • four quadrants of text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in provided observations

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visible Text

  • I judge my books. my books
  • their cover their cov

Wordwall

  • green text
  • black background
  • red pixelated border
  • repeating phrase
  • partially cut-off text
  • four quadrants

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710211631072041840096
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
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 14:51 UTC
Archive ID
84fe536ee006f22a
SHA-256
84fe536ee006f22ac669ecfcff33d92ad3f8f262c3d7dfe9cdf7eb64bf69a426
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:33 UTC
Run
1119
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076660

OpenAI category scores

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Green text on black background with red pixelated border, repeating phrase 'I judge my books by their cover' in four quadrants.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 11:53 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,708 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 680

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • minimalist (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive layout (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • green
  • red

Composition

  • four quadrants of text
  • border framing content
  • centered text blocks

Dense Caption

Black background with green text reading "I judge my books. my books / their cover their cov" repeated across the image; red pixelated lines form a jagged border around all edges; no visible animation changes between observations; text is partially cut off at bottom and right edges; four identical quadrants of text layout; red border has irregular, broken segments throughout.

Description

  • Green text on black background with red pixelated border, repeating phrase 'I judge my books by their cover' in four quadrants.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710211631072041840096

Mood

  • neutral
  • minimalist

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green text black background red border
  • repeating phrase I judge my books by their cover
  • pixelated text icon
  • four quadrants of text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in provided observations

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • repetitive layout

Visible Text

  • I judge my books. my books
  • their cover their cov

Wordwall

  • green text
  • black background
  • red pixelated border
  • repeating phrase
  • partially cut-off text
  • four quadrants
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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
200710211631072041840096
Archive entry
200710211631072041840096.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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#200710211631072041840096.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710211631072041840096.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016