Black background with white text 'ryan.' repeated , each text instance accompanied by varying numbers of white asterisks below it

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Black background with white text 'ryan.' repeated , each text instance accompanied by varying numbers of white asterisks below it

Black background with white text 'ryan.' repeated , each text instance accompanied by varying numbers of white asterisks below it. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Animation

  • asterisk counts change across observations

Animation Summary

Asterisk counts below 'ryan.' text change across observations: top shows 1, 2, 3 asterisks; middle shows 4, 5, 6; bottom shows 3, 2. The bottom-right corner contains a gray rectangle

Composition

  • repeated text
  • vertical asterisk

Dense Caption

Black background with white text 'ryan.' repeated in a grid pattern. Each 'ryan.' text instance has a vertical column of white asterisks below it. The asterisk counts vary: top-left has one asterisk, top-middle has two, top-right has three; middle-left has four, middle-middle has five, middle-right has six; bottom-left has three, bottom-middle has two. The bottom-right corner shows a gray rectangular area. All text and asterisks are rendered in a pixelated, low-resolution style.

Description

  • Black background with white text 'ryan.' repeated , each text instance accompanied by varying numbers of white asterisks below it

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

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  • pixelated ryan text
  • varying asterisk counts
  • black white gray
  • low-resolution ryan
  • text asterisk animation
  • ryan animation
  • pixelated animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with white text 'ryan.' repeated across grid, each text instance accompanied by varying numbers of white asterisks below it.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Asterisk counts below 'ryan.' text change across observations: top row shows 1, 2, 3 asterisks; middle row shows 4, 5, 6; bottom row shows 3, 2. The bottom-right corner contains a gray rectangle.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: vertical asterisk columns
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid animation
  • quarantined retrieval: ryan grid animation
  • quarantined retrieval: black white gray grid
  • quarantined retrieval: ryan asterisk grid

Visible Text

  • ryan.

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white text
  • ryan.
  • asterisks
  • pixelated
  • varying asterisk counts
  • gray rectangle
  • low-resolution
  • repeated text

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708201146431102707150
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
889 bytes
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8c/8c7925d7eabdc9208f0c66bd70c501f175f9d5222669189f8b32249e14161db6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
8c7925d7eabdc920
SHA-256
8c7925d7eabdc9208f0c66bd70c501f175f9d5222669189f8b32249e14161db6
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:42 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082024

OpenAI category scores

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

Black background with white text 'ryan.' repeated , each text instance accompanied by varying numbers of white asterisks below it

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 02:41 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,019 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 753

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Animation

  • asterisk counts change across observations

Animation Summary

Asterisk counts below 'ryan.' text change across observations: top shows 1, 2, 3 asterisks; middle shows 4, 5, 6; bottom shows 3, 2. The bottom-right corner contains a gray rectangle

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • repeated text
  • vertical asterisk

Dense Caption

Black background with white text 'ryan.' repeated in a grid pattern. Each 'ryan.' text instance has a vertical column of white asterisks below it. The asterisk counts vary: top-left has one asterisk, top-middle has two, top-right has three; middle-left has four, middle-middle has five, middle-right has six; bottom-left has three, bottom-middle has two. The bottom-right corner shows a gray rectangular area. All text and asterisks are rendered in a pixelated, low-resolution style.

Description

  • Black background with white text 'ryan.' repeated , each text instance accompanied by varying numbers of white asterisks below it

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

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  • varying asterisk counts
  • black white gray
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  • text asterisk animation
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Objects

  • asterisks

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid animation
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  • quarantined retrieval: black white gray grid
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Style

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Subjects

  • text
  • asterisks

Visible Text

  • ryan.

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white text
  • ryan.
  • asterisks
  • pixelated
  • varying asterisk counts
  • gray rectangle
  • low-resolution
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:20 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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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
200708201146431102707150
Archive entry
200708201146431102707150.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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