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Pixelated text on four colored backgrounds with identical content across all

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Pixelated text on four colored backgrounds with identical content across all

Pixelated text on four colored backgrounds with identical content across all. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s t…

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation; all display identical static content

Composition

  • four square
  • identical text across all

Dense Caption

Four square panels display the same pixelated purple text: 'umm... well its kinda a funny story!' The top-left panel has cyan background, top-right has light purple background, bottom-left has bright pink background, and bottom-right has medium blue background. All text uses blocky 8-bit style font with no visible animation or motion changes between panels.

Description

  • Pixelated text on four colored backgrounds with identical content across all

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
  • 200802061517481806850685

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text four backgrounds
  • cyan light purple pink blue
  • umm well its kinda funny story 8-bit
  • text-based pixel art color variations

Preprocessing Notes

  • All four panels show identical content; no motion or change observed between frames.
  • quarantined description: Pixelated text on four colored backgrounds with identical content across all panels.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation; all panels display identical static content.
  • quarantined composition: identical text across all panels
  • quarantined composition: four square panels
  • quarantined retrieval: cyan light purple pink blue panels

Visible Text

  • umm...
  • well
  • its kinda
  • a funny story!

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • light purple background
  • bright pink background
  • medium blue background
  • pixelated purple text
  • 'umm... well its kinda a funny story!'
  • blocky 8-bit font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802061517481806850685
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
813 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/87/87d2dea681e8aa21f42b1fad27dd8ebbc71abcbe95bee517981ffc57688e30f3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC
Archive ID
87d2dea681e8aa21
SHA-256
87d2dea681e8aa21f42b1fad27dd8ebbc71abcbe95bee517981ffc57688e30f3
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 3, 2026 at 17:48 UTC
Run
1262
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000080

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 1, 2026 at 02:29 UTC
Run
1252
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010278

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:37 UTC
Run
1127
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.423538

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text on four colored backgrounds with identical content across all

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 17:45 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,431 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,104, response 575

Review tags

  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • light purple (color, 0.80)
  • medium blue (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation; all display identical static content

Colors

  • cyan
  • light purple
  • bright pink
  • medium blue
  • purple

Composition

  • four square
  • identical text across all

Dense Caption

Four square panels display the same pixelated purple text: 'umm... well its kinda a funny story!' The top-left panel has cyan background, top-right has light purple background, bottom-left has bright pink background, and bottom-right has medium blue background. All text uses blocky 8-bit style font with no visible animation or motion changes between panels.

Description

  • Pixelated text on four colored backgrounds with identical content across all

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
  • 200802061517481806850685

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text four backgrounds
  • cyan light purple pink blue
  • umm well its kinda funny story 8-bit
  • text-based pixel art color variations

Preprocessing Notes

  • All four panels show identical content; no motion or change observed between frames.
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  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation; all panels display identical static content.
  • quarantined composition: identical text across all panels
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  • quarantined retrieval: cyan light purple pink blue panels

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • umm...
  • well
  • its kinda
  • a funny story!

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • light purple background
  • bright pink background
  • medium blue background
  • pixelated purple text
  • 'umm... well its kinda a funny story!'
  • blocky 8-bit font
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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
200802061517481806850685
Archive entry
200802061517481806850685.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 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#200802061517481806850685.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802061517481806850685.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016