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Green and cyan checkered background with four identical pixelated text instances reading 'argie' in black serif font.

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Green and cyan checkered background with four identical pixelated text instances reading 'argie' in black serif font.

Green and cyan checkered background with four identical pixelated text instances reading 'argie' in black serif font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; the image is static with identical text instances over a checkered background.

Composition

  • four identical text instances
  • symmetrical layout
  • centered text

Dense Caption

The image displays a static composition with a green and cyan checkered background pattern. Four identical instances of the text 'argie' appear in black serif font, each positioned over the checkered background. The text is pixelated with visible anti-aliasing. The checkered pattern consists of alternating green and cyan squares. The overall resolution is low, characteristic of early digital graphics. No additional subjects, actions, or objects are present beyond the text and background pattern.

Description

  • Green and cyan checkered background with four identical pixelated text instances reading 'argie' in black serif font.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green cyan checkered argie text
  • pixelated argie text
  • four argie instances
  • low resolution argie checkered
  • argie pixel art checkered background

Visible Text

  • argie

Wordwall

  • green and cyan checkered background
  • four identical 'argie' text instances
  • black serif font
  • pixelated text
  • anti-aliasing on text
  • alternating green and cyan squares
  • low-resolution graphics
  • static composition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809251436511040343381
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/91/913758a92064adda58cf708d038b03a3d8f69b21c36455b04f89de9ef0bcd469.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
913758a92064adda
SHA-256
913758a92064adda58cf708d038b03a3d8f69b21c36455b04f89de9ef0bcd469
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 29, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
Run
15963
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000039

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 19:48 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000607

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:09 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.257237

OpenAI category scores

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Green and cyan checkered background with four identical pixelated text instances reading 'argie' in black serif font.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 01:34 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,990 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 695

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • checkered pattern (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; the image is static with identical text instances over a checkered background.

Colors

  • green
  • cyan
  • black

Composition

  • four identical text instances
  • symmetrical layout
  • centered text

Dense Caption

The image displays a static composition with a green and cyan checkered background pattern. Four identical instances of the text 'argie' appear in black serif font, each positioned over the checkered background. The text is pixelated with visible anti-aliasing. The checkered pattern consists of alternating green and cyan squares. The overall resolution is low, characteristic of early digital graphics. No additional subjects, actions, or objects are present beyond the text and background pattern.

Description

  • Green and cyan checkered background with four identical pixelated text instances reading 'argie' in black serif font.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • pixelated argie text
  • four argie instances
  • low resolution argie checkered
  • argie pixel art checkered background

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • checkered pattern

Visible Text

  • argie

Wordwall

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  • four identical 'argie' text instances
  • black serif font
  • pixelated text
  • anti-aliasing on text
  • alternating green and cyan squares
  • low-resolution graphics
  • static composition
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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
200809251436511040343381
Archive entry
200809251436511040343381.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809251436511040343381.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809251436511040343381.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016