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Pixelated text reads 'ESCAPE THE FATE' above a row of arrows and below '4 life 800', set against a multicolored pixelated background.

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Pixelated text reads 'ESCAPE THE FATE' above a row of arrows and below '4 life 800', set against a multicolored pixelated background.

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Source terms

Composition

  • vertical alignment of five black bars
  • text centered within each bar
  • background fills all space outside bars

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated graphic with five horizontal black bars containing white text. Top bar: 'ESCAPE'. Second bar: 'THE'. Third bar: 'FATE'. Fourth bar: six right-pointing arrows (>>>>>>). Fifth bar: '4 life 800'. Background consists of blurred multicolored pixels in shades of blue, purple, pink, green, and cyan. Text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads 'ESCAPE THE FATE' above a row of arrows and below '4 life 800', set against a multicolored pixelated background.

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
  • 20080904124228264417575

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • escape the fate arrows 4 life 800
  • pixelated text escape the fate
  • multicolored background blocky text
  • 6 right arrows 4 life 800

Visible Text

  • ESCAPE
  • THE
  • FATE
  • >>>>>>
  • 4 life 800

Wordwall

  • text reads ESCAPE
  • text reads THE
  • text reads FATE
  • six right-pointing arrows
  • text reads 4 life 800
  • multicolored pixelated background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080904124228264417575
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8a/8ae09e1edeb77ab1145961b29262dd4b0bba7db554695a03d9d1def75a62ff89.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
8ae09e1edeb77ab1
SHA-256
8ae09e1edeb77ab1145961b29262dd4b0bba7db554695a03d9d1def75a62ff89
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 22:57 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000454

OpenAI category scores

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Qwen scheduling evidence

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EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:40 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072483

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text reads 'ESCAPE THE FATE' above a row of arrows and below '4 life 800', set against a multicolored pixelated background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 22:50 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,288 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 687

Review tags

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  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • blue
  • purple
  • pink
  • green
  • cyan

Composition

  • vertical alignment of five black bars
  • text centered within each bar
  • background fills all space outside bars

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated graphic with five horizontal black bars containing white text. Top bar: 'ESCAPE'. Second bar: 'THE'. Third bar: 'FATE'. Fourth bar: six right-pointing arrows (>>>>>>). Fifth bar: '4 life 800'. Background consists of blurred multicolored pixels in shades of blue, purple, pink, green, and cyan. Text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads 'ESCAPE THE FATE' above a row of arrows and below '4 life 800', set against a multicolored pixelated background.

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
  • 20080904124228264417575

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • escape the fate arrows 4 life 800
  • pixelated text escape the fate
  • multicolored background blocky text
  • 6 right arrows 4 life 800

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky text

Visible Text

  • ESCAPE
  • THE
  • FATE
  • >>>>>>
  • 4 life 800

Wordwall

  • text reads ESCAPE
  • text reads THE
  • text reads FATE
  • six right-pointing arrows
  • text reads 4 life 800
  • multicolored pixelated background
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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
20080904124228264417575
Archive entry
20080904124228264417575.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#20080904124228264417575.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080904124228264417575.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016