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A static image with a bright pink background, scattered green dots, and repeated cyan text reading '!?SKETCH?!' across the top three

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A static image with a bright pink background, scattered green dots, and repeated cyan text reading '!?SKETCH?!' across the top three

A static image with a bright pink background, scattered green dots, and repeated cyan text reading '!?SKETCH?!' across the top three. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text spanning width
  • dots distributed across background
  • rectangle in corner

Dense Caption

!?SKETCH?! appears in cyan pixelated font on a solid bright pink background. The text repeats horizontally across all visible rows: four instances in the top row, five in the middle row, and three in the bottom row. Small green dots are scattered throughout the pink background. A gray rectangular shape occupies the lower-right corner of the image.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background, scattered green dots, and repeated cyan text reading '!?SKETCH?!' across the top three

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
  • 200801182127561754395041

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan '!?SKETCH?!' pink background
  • '! ? S K E T C H ! ?' text
  • green dots bright pink
  • gray rectangle lower right corner

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static image with a bright pink background, scattered green dots, and repeated cyan text reading '!?SKETCH?!' across the top three rows.
  • quarantined composition: text rows spanning width

Visible Text

  • ! ? S K E T C H ! ?

Wordwall

  • cyan '!?SKETCH?!' text
  • bright pink background
  • green scattered dots
  • gray rectangle lower right

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801182127561754395041
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/86/86bd801f845c8267350a770c78a41744ced83544d3d3dcf55787e0542594a0c8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC
Archive ID
86bd801f845c8267
SHA-256
86bd801f845c8267350a770c78a41744ced83544d3d3dcf55787e0542594a0c8
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:37 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089386

OpenAI category scores

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A static image with a bright pink background, scattered green dots, and repeated cyan text reading '!?SKETCH?!' across the top three

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 11:21 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,689 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,127, response 636

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • quirky (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive text layout (style, 0.80)
  • static image (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • cyan
  • green
  • gray

Composition

  • text spanning width
  • dots distributed across background
  • rectangle in corner

Dense Caption

!?SKETCH?! appears in cyan pixelated font on a solid bright pink background. The text repeats horizontally across all visible rows: four instances in the top row, five in the middle row, and three in the bottom row. Small green dots are scattered throughout the pink background. A gray rectangular shape occupies the lower-right corner of the image.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background, scattered green dots, and repeated cyan text reading '!?SKETCH?!' across the top three

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
  • 200801182127561754395041

Mood

  • playful
  • quirky

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan '!?SKETCH?!' pink background
  • '! ? S K E T C H ! ?' text
  • green dots bright pink
  • gray rectangle lower right corner

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static image with a bright pink background, scattered green dots, and repeated cyan text reading '!?SKETCH?!' across the top three rows.
  • quarantined composition: text rows spanning width

Style

  • pixelated
  • repetitive text layout
  • static image

Visible Text

  • ! ? S K E T C H ! ?

Wordwall

  • cyan '!?SKETCH?!' text
  • bright pink background
  • green scattered dots
  • gray rectangle lower right
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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
200801182127561754395041
Archive entry
200801182127561754395041.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 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#200801182127561754395041.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801182127561754395041.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016