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A static image with four quadrants displaying identical text in different background colors: blue, purple, red, and purple.

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A static image with four quadrants displaying identical text in different background colors: blue, purple, red, and purple.

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Source terms

Composition

  • quadrants
  • text-centered

Dense Caption

The image consists of four quadrants arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left quadrant has a blue background with white pixelated text: 'U Kno U', 'WAnT', '2', 'B3', 'LYk3 M3'. Top-right quadrant has a purple background with identical white pixelated text. Bottom-left quadrant has a red background with identical white pixelated text. Bottom-right quadrant has a purple background with identical white pixelated text. All text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The image is static with no animation.

Description

  • A static image with four quadrants displaying identical text in different background colors: blue, purple, red, and purple.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue purple red white text
  • U Kno U WAnT 2 B3 LYk3 M3
  • pixelated text
  • four quadrant text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid

Visible Text

  • U Kno U
  • WAnT
  • 2
  • B3
  • LYk3 M3

Wordwall

  • four quadrants
  • blue background
  • purple background
  • red background
  • white pixelated text
  • blocky digital font
  • identical text across quadrants
  • U Kno U
  • WAnT
  • 2
  • B3
  • LYk3 M3

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090419071221442832547
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
48×48 pixels
File size
765 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/87/873d18965eeb587e2da28210a44500b7d75ad3f32cbe24181ef4359be956df4b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
873d18965eeb587e
SHA-256
873d18965eeb587e2da28210a44500b7d75ad3f32cbe24181ef4359be956df4b
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
0.105213

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A static image with four quadrants displaying identical text in different background colors: blue, purple, red, and purple.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 07:09 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,625 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 721

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • purple
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • quadrants
  • text-centered

Dense Caption

The image consists of four quadrants arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left quadrant has a blue background with white pixelated text: 'U Kno U', 'WAnT', '2', 'B3', 'LYk3 M3'. Top-right quadrant has a purple background with identical white pixelated text. Bottom-left quadrant has a red background with identical white pixelated text. Bottom-right quadrant has a purple background with identical white pixelated text. All text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The image is static with no animation.

Description

  • A static image with four quadrants displaying identical text in different background colors: blue, purple, red, and purple.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue purple red white text
  • U Kno U WAnT 2 B3 LYk3 M3
  • pixelated text
  • four quadrant text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • U Kno U
  • WAnT
  • 2
  • B3
  • LYk3 M3

Wordwall

  • four quadrants
  • blue background
  • purple background
  • red background
  • white pixelated text
  • blocky digital font
  • identical text across quadrants
  • U Kno U
  • WAnT
  • 2
  • B3
  • LYk3 M3
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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
20090419071221442832547
Archive entry
20090419071221442832547.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#20090419071221442832547.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090419071221442832547.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016