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Red rectangular blocks with black pixelated text on a solid black background, arranged in scattered positions.

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Red rectangular blocks with black pixelated text on a solid black background, arranged in scattered positions.

Red rectangular blocks with black pixelated text on a solid black background, arranged in scattered positions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered block arrangement
  • text blocks on solid background

Dense Caption

Solid black background contains six red rectangular blocks. Top-left block displays 'i won't be' in black pixelated lowercase letters. Top-right block displays 'a victim' in black pixelated lowercase letters. Middle-left block displays 'of' in black pixelated lowercase letters. Center block displays 'video girl' in black pixelated lowercase letters. Bottom-right block displays 'syndrome' in black pixelated lowercase letters. All text is rendered with a retro digital font style.

Description

  • Red rectangular blocks with black pixelated text on a solid black background, arranged in scattered positions.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200808101251421135968646
  • 200808101252301350700737

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i won't be a victim of video girl syndrome
  • red blocks black background pixelated text
  • defiant digital text layout
  • video girl syndrome blocky text

Visible Text

  • i won't be
  • a victim
  • of
  • video girl
  • syndrome

Wordwall

  • red rectangular blocks
  • black background
  • pixelated text
  • i won't be
  • a victim
  • of
  • video girl
  • syndrome

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808101252301350700737
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808101251421135968646
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
563 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8b/8bf812e5580b41279f3c6b8950a9dc50ebe5702986268e6b9aa2029c9ec99eb5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 UTC
Archive ID
8bf812e5580b4127
SHA-256
8bf812e5580b41279f3c6b8950a9dc50ebe5702986268e6b9aa2029c9ec99eb5
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 17:43 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.007183

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 14:28 UTC
Run
1245
Input
image+text
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:41 UTC
Run
1127
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.526551

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Red rectangular blocks with black pixelated text on a solid black background, arranged in scattered positions.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 17:37 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,292 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,214, response 664

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • assertive (mood, 0.80)
  • defiant (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text layout (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated digital (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black

Composition

  • scattered block arrangement
  • text blocks on solid background

Dense Caption

Solid black background contains six red rectangular blocks. Top-left block displays 'i won't be' in black pixelated lowercase letters. Top-right block displays 'a victim' in black pixelated lowercase letters. Middle-left block displays 'of' in black pixelated lowercase letters. Center block displays 'video girl' in black pixelated lowercase letters. Bottom-right block displays 'syndrome' in black pixelated lowercase letters. All text is rendered with a retro digital font style.

Description

  • Red rectangular blocks with black pixelated text on a solid black background, arranged in scattered positions.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200808101251421135968646
  • 200808101252301350700737

Mood

  • defiant
  • assertive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i won't be a victim of video girl syndrome
  • red blocks black background pixelated text
  • defiant digital text layout
  • video girl syndrome blocky text

Style

  • pixelated digital
  • retro
  • blocky text layout

Visible Text

  • i won't be
  • a victim
  • of
  • video girl
  • syndrome

Wordwall

  • red rectangular blocks
  • black background
  • pixelated text
  • i won't be
  • a victim
  • of
  • video girl
  • syndrome
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Full source records (2)

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
200808101252301350700737
Archive entry
200808101252301350700737.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 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#200808101252301350700737.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808101252301350700737.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200808101251421135968646
Archive entry
200808101251421135968646.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 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#200808101251421135968646.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808101251421135968646.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016