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Pixelated black background with red circular patterns and repeated white text reading 'wat up hommies??' in multiple positions.

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Pixelated black background with red circular patterns and repeated white text reading 'wat up hommies??' in multiple positions.

Pixelated black background with red circular patterns and repeated white text reading 'wat up hommies??' in multiple positions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four text blocks arranged in quadrants
  • horizontal wavy line between middle text blocks
  • uniform red circular background elements

Dense Caption

Black background filled with repeating red circular pixel clusters. Four distinct instances of the phrase 'wat up hommies??' appear in white pixelated font: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right quadrants. A single horizontal wavy line composed of connected red pixels spans horizontally between the middle two text blocks. All elements maintain consistent pixel density across all visible frames.

Description

  • Pixelated black background with red circular patterns and repeated white text reading 'wat up hommies??' in multiple positions.

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
  • 200803151717141337834528

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red circular patterns black background
  • wat up hommies text four instances
  • pixelated wavy line horizontal
  • white text red circles black

Visible Text

  • wat up hommies??

Wordwall

  • red circular patterns
  • black background
  • white text 'wat up hommies??'
  • four text instances
  • horizontal wavy line

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803151717141337834528
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/87/879597659c30cf0efd5c7a8d4ae4a0ee5adef27dc7942204d8b3ac0229c0c82a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC
Archive ID
879597659c30cf0e
SHA-256
879597659c30cf0efd5c7a8d4ae4a0ee5adef27dc7942204d8b3ac0229c0c82a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.090253

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated black background with red circular patterns and repeated white text reading 'wat up hommies??' in multiple positions.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 07:20 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,890 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 664

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • informal (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive pattern (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • four text blocks arranged in quadrants
  • horizontal wavy line between middle text blocks
  • uniform red circular background elements

Dense Caption

Black background filled with repeating red circular pixel clusters. Four distinct instances of the phrase 'wat up hommies??' appear in white pixelated font: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right quadrants. A single horizontal wavy line composed of connected red pixels spans horizontally between the middle two text blocks. All elements maintain consistent pixel density across all visible frames.

Description

  • Pixelated black background with red circular patterns and repeated white text reading 'wat up hommies??' in multiple positions.

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
  • 200803151717141337834528

Mood

  • playful
  • casual
  • informal

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red circular patterns black background
  • wat up hommies text four instances
  • pixelated wavy line horizontal
  • white text red circles black

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • repetitive pattern

Visible Text

  • wat up hommies??

Wordwall

  • red circular patterns
  • black background
  • white text 'wat up hommies??'
  • four text instances
  • horizontal wavy line
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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
200803151717141337834528
Archive entry
200803151717141337834528.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 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#200803151717141337834528.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803151717141337834528.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016