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Four identical red pixelated text blocks reading 'Fear Me' arranged in a on a black background

Four identical red pixelated text blocks reading 'Fear Me' arranged in a on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ic…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • four identical elements

Dense Caption

Four identical red pixelated text blocks reading 'Fear Me' arranged in a 2x2 grid on a black background. Each text block consists of two lines: 'Fear' on the top line and 'Me' on the bottom line. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics. The background is solid black with no additional visual elements or variations across the four instances.

Description

  • Four identical red pixelated text blocks reading 'Fear Me' arranged in a on a black 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20070727145247834698728
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20070727145247834698728

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated fear me text
  • black background four identical text blocks
  • fear me
  • blocky low-resolution fear me
  • four fear me text blocks

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical red pixelated text blocks reading 'Fear Me' arranged in a 2x2 grid on a black background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid fear me

Visible Text

  • Fear Me

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • four identical text blocks
  • two lines per block
  • top line 'Fear'
  • bottom line 'Me'
  • blocky low-resolution style
  • solid black background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070727145247834698728
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
222 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/90/90bb9d06d00f845a16ea11487f77b6c81c7fb820a6b707d9c94992f30e706328.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC
Archive ID
90bb9d06d00f845a
SHA-256
90bb9d06d00f845a16ea11487f77b6c81c7fb820a6b707d9c94992f30e706328
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 12, 2026 at 22:06 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001212

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:08 UTC
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1133
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four identical red pixelated text blocks reading 'Fear Me' arranged in a on a black background

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,122 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 736

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • menacing (mood, 0.80)
  • threatening (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • red
  • black

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • four identical elements

Dense Caption

Four identical red pixelated text blocks reading 'Fear Me' arranged in a 2x2 grid on a black background. Each text block consists of two lines: 'Fear' on the top line and 'Me' on the bottom line. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics. The background is solid black with no additional visual elements or variations across the four instances.

Description

  • Four identical red pixelated text blocks reading 'Fear Me' arranged in a on a black 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20070727145247834698728
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20070727145247834698728

Mood

  • menacing
  • threatening

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated fear me text
  • black background four identical text blocks
  • fear me
  • blocky low-resolution fear me
  • four fear me text blocks

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical red pixelated text blocks reading 'Fear Me' arranged in a 2x2 grid on a black background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid fear me

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • Fear Me

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • four identical text blocks
  • two lines per block
  • top line 'Fear'
  • bottom line 'Me'
  • blocky low-resolution style
  • solid black background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:29 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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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070727145247834698728
Archive entry
20070727145247834698728.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 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#20070727145247834698728.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070727145247834698728.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016