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Pixelated text 'hey' appears in white with black outline on layered background of pink, green, blue, and gray stripes.

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Pixelated text 'hey' appears in white with black outline on layered background of pink, green, blue, and gray stripes.

Pixelated text 'hey' appears in white with black outline on layered background of pink, green, blue, and gray stripes. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Style

Mood

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Source terms

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • horizontal stripes
  • solid gray area
  • text repetition

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated graphic with the word 'hey' in white lowercase letters with a black outline. The background consists of horizontal stripes: a pink stripe at the top, a green stripe, a blue stripe, and a gray stripe. The text 'hey' appears three times in the image, with the top two instances positioned side-by-side and the third instance below them. The stripes have a textured, pixelated appearance. The right side of the image contains a solid gray area. The overall style is retro and pixelated, typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'hey' appears in white with black outline on layered background of pink, green, blue, and gray stripes.

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
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20090406155549132387368
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20090406155549132387368

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hey text pixelated
  • pink green blue gray stripes
  • three hey texts
  • white text black outline
  • retro pixelated style

Visible Text

  • hey

Wordwall

  • text: hey
  • background: pink stripe
  • background: green stripe
  • background: blue stripe
  • background: gray stripe
  • text color: white
  • text outline: black
  • style: pixelated
  • layout: horizontal stripes
  • layout: solid gray area
  • repetition: three instances of 'hey'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090406155549132387368
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/85/85cf94611e4549887874003ee9d163130a18aea661816b5aa39474ab773ae2d8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
85cf94611e454988
SHA-256
85cf94611e4549887874003ee9d163130a18aea661816b5aa39474ab773ae2d8
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 05:47 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000022

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.000022falseharassment0.000009falseillicit0.000003falseviolence0.000003falsehate0.000002falseself-harm0.000002falseviolence/graphic0.000001falseharassment/threatening0.000001falseself-harm/intent0.000001falsesexual/minors0.000001falseillicit/violent0.000000falseself-harm/instructions0.000000falsehate/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 17:36 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097756

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.902244onnx/unsafe0.097756onnx/nsfw0.063446onnx/nsfl0.034310
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated text 'hey' appears in white with black outline on layered background of pink, green, blue, and gray stripes.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 05:41 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,710 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 799

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • pink
  • green
  • blue
  • gray
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • horizontal stripes
  • solid gray area
  • text repetition

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated graphic with the word 'hey' in white lowercase letters with a black outline. The background consists of horizontal stripes: a pink stripe at the top, a green stripe, a blue stripe, and a gray stripe. The text 'hey' appears three times in the image, with the top two instances positioned side-by-side and the third instance below them. The stripes have a textured, pixelated appearance. The right side of the image contains a solid gray area. The overall style is retro and pixelated, typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'hey' appears in white with black outline on layered background of pink, green, blue, and gray stripes.

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
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20090406155549132387368
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20090406155549132387368

Mood

  • casual
  • friendly

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hey text pixelated
  • pink green blue gray stripes
  • three hey texts
  • white text black outline
  • retro pixelated style

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • hey

Wordwall

  • text: hey
  • background: pink stripe
  • background: green stripe
  • background: blue stripe
  • background: gray stripe
  • text color: white
  • text outline: black
  • style: pixelated
  • layout: horizontal stripes
  • layout: solid gray area
  • repetition: three instances of 'hey'
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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
20090406155549132387368
Archive entry
20090406155549132387368.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#20090406155549132387368.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090406155549132387368.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016