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Four identical blue pixelated text blocks arranged in a on alternating yellow and orange backgrounds

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Four identical blue pixelated text blocks arranged in a on alternating yellow and orange backgrounds

Four identical blue pixelated text blocks arranged in a on alternating yellow and orange backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • alternating backgrounds

Dense Caption

Four identical blue pixelated text blocks arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left and bottom-right quadrants have bright yellow backgrounds; top-right and bottom-left quadrants have orange backgrounds. Each text block contains the word 'darron' repeated three times vertically, with each letter formed from blue pixels. The text is centered within each quadrant. The image has no visible animation or motion changes.

Description

  • Four identical blue pixelated text blocks arranged in a on alternating yellow and orange backgrounds

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

  • darron pixelated text
  • blue text yellow orange
  • darron
  • pixelated darron

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical blue pixelated text blocks arranged in a 2x2 grid on alternating yellow and orange backgrounds.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated darron grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid darron
  • quarantined retrieval: blue text yellow orange grid

Visible Text

  • darron

Wordwall

  • blue pixelated text
  • darron
  • yellow background
  • orange background
  • repeated text
  • centered text
  • pixelated font
  • four identical blocks

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080612125639239121509
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8a/8a1230f29f0f55f9c25cca228146a30befa14a29b37c621bece1b57b3afaa30f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC
Archive ID
8a1230f29f0f55f9
SHA-256
8a1230f29f0f55f9c25cca228146a30befa14a29b37c621bece1b57b3afaa30f
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:13 UTC
Run
107
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image
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Four identical blue pixelated text blocks arranged in a on alternating yellow and orange backgrounds

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 05:25 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
4,481 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 639

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • orange

Composition

  • centered text
  • alternating backgrounds

Dense Caption

Four identical blue pixelated text blocks arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left and bottom-right quadrants have bright yellow backgrounds; top-right and bottom-left quadrants have orange backgrounds. Each text block contains the word 'darron' repeated three times vertically, with each letter formed from blue pixels. The text is centered within each quadrant. The image has no visible animation or motion changes.

Description

  • Four identical blue pixelated text blocks arranged in a on alternating yellow and orange backgrounds

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

  • darron pixelated text
  • blue text yellow orange
  • darron
  • pixelated darron

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined retrieval: blue text yellow orange grid

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  • pixelated
  • repetitive

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • darron

Wordwall

  • blue pixelated text
  • darron
  • yellow background
  • orange background
  • repeated text
  • centered text
  • pixelated font
  • four identical blocks
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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
20080612125639239121509
Archive entry
20080612125639239121509.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 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#20080612125639239121509.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080612125639239121509.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016