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Four pixelated text on black background with red bars over 'what the fxxx' text, each showing different bar placement

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Four pixelated text on black background with red bars over 'what the fxxx' text, each showing different bar placement

Four pixelated text on black background with red bars over 'what the fxxx' text, each showing different bar placement. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image
  • no motion observed

Composition

  • four
  • identical text blocks with varying bar coverage

Dense Caption

Black background displays four identical white pixelated text blocks reading 'what', 'the', and 'fxxx'. Top-left: no red bar. Top-right: red bar covers 'what'. Bottom-left: red bar covers 'the'. Bottom-right: red bar covers 'fxxx'. All panels share same font, size, and spacing. Red bars are solid horizontal rectangles.

Description

  • Four pixelated text on black background with red bars over 'what the fxxx' text, each showing different bar placement

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803280654361410972669

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • what the fxxx red bar
  • pixelated text four
  • red bars covering different lines
  • black background white text red rectangles

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four pixelated text panels on black background with red bars over 'what the fxxx' text, each panel showing different bar placement.
  • quarantined composition: four panels arranged in 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text four panels

Visible Text

  • what
  • the
  • fxxx

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'what' on top line
  • 'the' middle line
  • 'fxxx' bottom line
  • red horizontal bars
  • four distinct bar placements

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803280654361410972669
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
430 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/86/862ee6cc97ed75797497598ffbec6a13101d24fd832b40fe51955a69a28a50a9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC
Archive ID
862ee6cc97ed7579
SHA-256
862ee6cc97ed75797497598ffbec6a13101d24fd832b40fe51955a69a28a50a9
Content-safety assessments (1)
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
0.084277

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.926131onnx/unsafe0.084277onnx/nsfl0.043773onnx/nsfw0.040504
Enrichment records (1)
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Four pixelated text on black background with red bars over 'what the fxxx' text, each showing different bar placement

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 20:40 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,506 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 633

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • frustrating (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • no motion observed (other, 0.80)
  • static image (other, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image
  • no motion observed

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • four
  • identical text blocks with varying bar coverage

Dense Caption

Black background displays four identical white pixelated text blocks reading 'what', 'the', and 'fxxx'. Top-left: no red bar. Top-right: red bar covers 'what'. Bottom-left: red bar covers 'the'. Bottom-right: red bar covers 'fxxx'. All panels share same font, size, and spacing. Red bars are solid horizontal rectangles.

Description

  • Four pixelated text on black background with red bars over 'what the fxxx' text, each showing different bar placement

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803280654361410972669

Mood

  • neutral
  • frustrating

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • what the fxxx red bar
  • pixelated text four
  • red bars covering different lines
  • black background white text red rectangles

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four pixelated text panels on black background with red bars over 'what the fxxx' text, each panel showing different bar placement.
  • quarantined composition: four panels arranged in 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text four panels

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • minimalist

Visible Text

  • what
  • the
  • fxxx

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'what' on top line
  • 'the' middle line
  • 'fxxx' bottom line
  • red horizontal bars
  • four distinct bar placements
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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
200803280654361410972669
Archive entry
200803280654361410972669.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 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#200803280654361410972669.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803280654361410972669.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016