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A static image with a bright purple background displaying repeated yellow text 'COOL FREAK' and small pink stars.

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A static image with a bright purple background displaying repeated yellow text 'COOL FREAK' and small pink stars.

A static image with a bright purple background displaying repeated yellow text 'COOL FREAK' and small pink stars. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal text
  • scattered stars
  • gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

The image features a solid bright purple background. Overlaid are multiple repetitions of the text 'COOL FREAK' in bright yellow, all-caps, pixelated font. Small pink stars are scattered across the background. The text repeats horizontally in three distinct rows. The rightmost portion of the image shows a solid gray rectangular area, suggesting a cropped or incomplete frame. The overall style is retro digital with a limited color palette.

Description

  • A static image with a bright purple background displaying repeated yellow text 'COOL FREAK' and small pink stars.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background cool freak text
  • yellow cool freak pink stars
  • repeated cool freak text
  • gray rectangle purple background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: repeated text rows
  • quarantined composition: horizontal text rows

Visible Text

  • COOL FREAK

Wordwall

  • bright purple background
  • yellow text 'COOL FREAK'
  • small pink stars
  • repeated text
  • gray rectangular area
  • pixelated font
  • retro digital style
  • limited color palette

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080227131938145857454
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
893 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/88/886f375d4a084feac336c751bebea5bab1b255453a4af5123581c723cb84abdf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
886f375d4a084fea
SHA-256
886f375d4a084feac336c751bebea5bab1b255453a4af5123581c723cb84abdf
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 29, 2026 at 02:09 UTC
Run
15963
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000746

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 4, 2026 at 19:01 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.002935

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.002935falseviolence0.001252falseself-harm0.000483falseself-harm/intent0.000216falseviolence/graphic0.000039falseself-harm/instructions0.000005falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:38 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.289396

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static image with a bright purple background displaying repeated yellow text 'COOL FREAK' and small pink stars.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 13:17 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,754 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,119, response 670

Review tags

  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • yellow
  • pink
  • gray

Composition

  • horizontal text
  • scattered stars
  • gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

The image features a solid bright purple background. Overlaid are multiple repetitions of the text 'COOL FREAK' in bright yellow, all-caps, pixelated font. Small pink stars are scattered across the background. The text repeats horizontally in three distinct rows. The rightmost portion of the image shows a solid gray rectangular area, suggesting a cropped or incomplete frame. The overall style is retro digital with a limited color palette.

Description

  • A static image with a bright purple background displaying repeated yellow text 'COOL FREAK' and small pink stars.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background cool freak text
  • yellow cool freak pink stars
  • repeated cool freak text
  • gray rectangle purple background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: repeated text rows
  • quarantined composition: horizontal text rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • COOL FREAK

Wordwall

  • bright purple background
  • yellow text 'COOL FREAK'
  • small pink stars
  • repeated text
  • gray rectangular area
  • pixelated font
  • retro digital style
  • limited color palette
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:18 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20080227131938145857454
Archive entry
20080227131938145857454.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#20080227131938145857454.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080227131938145857454.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016