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Pixelated text reads 'Please Tell Me Now' in purple letters on black rectangular backgrounds against a gray and white checkered pattern.

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Pixelated text reads 'Please Tell Me Now' in purple letters on black rectangular backgrounds against a gray and white checkered pattern.

Pixelated text reads 'Please Tell Me Now' in purple letters on black rectangular backgrounds against a gray and white checkered pattern. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image with four lines of purple text on black backgrounds against a checkered pattern.

Composition

  • vertical text column
  • centered text
  • checkered background

Dense Caption

The image displays four lines of text: 'Please', 'Tell', 'Me', and 'Now', each rendered in purple pixelated font on separate black rectangular backgrounds. The text is vertically centered and arranged in a column. The background consists of a gray and white checkered pattern with varying shades of gray and white pixels. The overall image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance. The text is clearly legible with no visible motion or animation. The image is static with no additional visual elements or objects present.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads 'Please Tell Me Now' in purple letters on black rectangular backgrounds against a gray and white checkered pattern.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple text checkered background
  • four line text vertical arrangement
  • pixelated text black backgrounds
  • static image purple white gray
  • text-based pixel art checkered

Visible Text

  • Please
  • Tell
  • Me
  • Now

Wordwall

  • purple text
  • black rectangular backgrounds
  • gray and white checkered pattern
  • vertical text arrangement
  • four lines of text
  • pixelated font
  • low-resolution appearance
  • clearly legible text
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812151521121205456977
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081215152114400971608
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/90/90689ce4e3d50ac3169fc4adea80e31dcec52151ade50627e24c24a2c99c2f3a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
90689ce4e3d50ac3
SHA-256
90689ce4e3d50ac3169fc4adea80e31dcec52151ade50627e24c24a2c99c2f3a
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 28, 2026 at 18:16 UTC
Run
15954
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000213

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 3, 2026 at 12:55 UTC
Run
1258
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010179

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.010179falseself-harm0.007425falsesexual0.002869falseself-harm/intent0.000360falseself-harm/instructions0.000225falseviolence/graphic0.000037falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:08 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.308107

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text reads 'Please Tell Me Now' in purple letters on black rectangular backgrounds against a gray and white checkered pattern.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 13:53 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,261 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,134, response 749

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image with four lines of purple text on black backgrounds against a checkered pattern.

Colors

  • purple
  • black
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • vertical text column
  • centered text
  • checkered background

Dense Caption

The image displays four lines of text: 'Please', 'Tell', 'Me', and 'Now', each rendered in purple pixelated font on separate black rectangular backgrounds. The text is vertically centered and arranged in a column. The background consists of a gray and white checkered pattern with varying shades of gray and white pixels. The overall image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance. The text is clearly legible with no visible motion or animation. The image is static with no additional visual elements or objects present.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads 'Please Tell Me Now' in purple letters on black rectangular backgrounds against a gray and white checkered pattern.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple text checkered background
  • four line text vertical arrangement
  • pixelated text black backgrounds
  • static image purple white gray
  • text-based pixel art checkered

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • Please
  • Tell
  • Me
  • Now

Wordwall

  • purple text
  • black rectangular backgrounds
  • gray and white checkered pattern
  • vertical text arrangement
  • four lines of text
  • pixelated font
  • low-resolution appearance
  • clearly legible text
  • static image
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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
200812151521121205456977
Archive entry
200812151521121205456977.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#200812151521121205456977.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812151521121205456977.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
20081215152114400971608
Archive entry
20081215152114400971608.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#20081215152114400971608.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081215152114400971608.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016