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Green pixelated text and abstract shapes on a purple background with visible digital artifacts.

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Green pixelated text and abstract shapes on a purple background with visible digital artifacts.

Green pixelated text and abstract shapes on a purple background with visible digital artifacts. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ic…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes detected; the image appears static with consistent pixel patterns across all observations.

Composition

  • horizontal text layout
  • horizontal band of shapes

Dense Caption

The image displays a purple background with two identical green pixelated text strings reading "DECARS" positioned horizontally near the top. Below the text, a horizontal band of green pixelated abstract shapes resembling stylized figures or symbols spans the width. The green elements exhibit digital artifacts including pixelation, color bleeding, and partial transparency effects. The overall visual style is low-resolution with visible dithering and blocky rendering. No distinct human or animal subjects are identifiable in the abstract shapes. The image contains no readable text beyond the "DECARS" strings. The green elements appear to have subtle variations in brightness and shape across the horizontal band, suggesting minimal animation or frame-to-frame change.

Description

  • Green pixelated text and abstract shapes on a purple background with visible digital artifacts.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background green text DECARS
  • green pixelated text DECARS
  • low-resolution pixel art DECARS
  • purple background pixelated shapes
  • green digital artifacts DECARS

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; image appears static.

Visible Text

  • DECARS

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • green pixelated text
  • "DECARS" text
  • horizontal text layout
  • pixelated abstract shapes
  • green color bleeding
  • digital artifacts
  • low-resolution rendering
  • horizontal band of shapes
  • dithering effects

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070824181217627623397
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/89/89fd96ebd0f4c7a6a6c75ab64646b9da86fb4789b79d5fba714ca862bf5f12b3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
89fd96ebd0f4c7a6
SHA-256
89fd96ebd0f4c7a6a6c75ab64646b9da86fb4789b79d5fba714ca862bf5f12b3
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 05:12 UTC
Run
1343
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000033

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 12:47 UTC
Run
1245
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001208

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:40 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.531141

OpenAI category scores

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

Green pixelated text and abstract shapes on a purple background with visible digital artifacts.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 04:52 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,850 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 648

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • digital artifacts (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes detected; the image appears static with consistent pixel patterns across all observations.

Colors

  • purple
  • green

Composition

  • horizontal text layout
  • horizontal band of shapes

Dense Caption

The image displays a purple background with two identical green pixelated text strings reading "DECARS" positioned horizontally near the top. Below the text, a horizontal band of green pixelated abstract shapes resembling stylized figures or symbols spans the width. The green elements exhibit digital artifacts including pixelation, color bleeding, and partial transparency effects. The overall visual style is low-resolution with visible dithering and blocky rendering. No distinct human or animal subjects are identifiable in the abstract shapes. The image contains no readable text beyond the "DECARS" strings. The green elements appear to have subtle variations in brightness and shape across the horizontal band, suggesting minimal animation or frame-to-frame change.

Description

  • Green pixelated text and abstract shapes on a purple background with visible digital artifacts.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background green text DECARS
  • green pixelated text DECARS
  • low-resolution pixel art DECARS
  • purple background pixelated shapes
  • green digital artifacts DECARS

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; image appears static.

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • digital artifacts

Visible Text

  • DECARS

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • green pixelated text
  • "DECARS" text
  • horizontal text layout
  • pixelated abstract shapes
  • green color bleeding
  • digital artifacts
  • low-resolution rendering
  • horizontal band of shapes
  • dithering effects
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:56 UTC
Run
52
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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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070824181217627623397
Archive entry
20070824181217627623397.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#20070824181217627623397.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070824181217627623397.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016