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Four display the phrase "looking for a new icon" in cyan pixelated text against red, dark red, black, and dark red backgrounds

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Four display the phrase "looking for a new icon" in cyan pixelated text against red, dark red, black, and dark red backgrounds

Four display the phrase "looking for a new icon" in cyan pixelated text against red, dark red, black, and dark red backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four
  • centered text
  • square

Dense Caption

Four panels display the phrase "looking for a new icon" in cyan pixelated text. Top-left panel: red background. Top-right panel: dark red background. Bottom-left panel: black background. Bottom-right panel: dark red background. Text is centered in each panel. All panels are square. Text uses a blocky, low-resolution font. No other visual elements present.

Description

  • Four display the phrase "looking for a new icon" in cyan pixelated text against red, dark red, black, and dark red backgrounds

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text red background
  • cyan text dark red background
  • cyan text black background
  • four cyan text
  • pixelated text looking for a new icon
  • blocky font cyan text
  • low-resolution cyan text
  • centered cyan text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four panels display the phrase "looking for a new icon" in cyan pixelated text against red, dark red, black, and dark red backgrounds.
  • quarantined wordwall: square panels
  • quarantined wordwall: four panels
  • quarantined composition: square panels
  • quarantined composition: four panels
  • quarantined retrieval: four panels cyan text

Visible Text

  • looking for a new icon

Wordwall

  • cyan pixelated text
  • red background
  • dark red background
  • black background
  • four
  • centered text
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution
  • no other elements
  • square

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070806141849717278454
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/91/91f35cb4672a9fa2a6d4cc9e1a4781643a8a8e6c280a62fa00867c59f4f622f3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
91f35cb4672a9fa2
SHA-256
91f35cb4672a9fa2a6d4cc9e1a4781643a8a8e6c280a62fa00867c59f4f622f3
Content-safety assessments (1)
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
0.118553

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four display the phrase "looking for a new icon" in cyan pixelated text against red, dark red, black, and dark red backgrounds

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:45 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,361 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 661

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  • dark red (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • cyan
  • red
  • dark red
  • black

Composition

  • four
  • centered text
  • square

Dense Caption

Four panels display the phrase "looking for a new icon" in cyan pixelated text. Top-left panel: red background. Top-right panel: dark red background. Bottom-left panel: black background. Bottom-right panel: dark red background. Text is centered in each panel. All panels are square. Text uses a blocky, low-resolution font. No other visual elements present.

Description

  • Four display the phrase "looking for a new icon" in cyan pixelated text against red, dark red, black, and dark red backgrounds

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • cyan text dark red background
  • cyan text black background
  • four cyan text
  • pixelated text looking for a new icon
  • blocky font cyan text
  • low-resolution cyan text
  • centered cyan text

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: square panels
  • quarantined wordwall: four panels
  • quarantined composition: square panels
  • quarantined composition: four panels
  • quarantined retrieval: four panels cyan text

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • looking for a new icon

Wordwall

  • cyan pixelated text
  • red background
  • dark red background
  • black background
  • four
  • centered text
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution
  • no other elements
  • square
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:36 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)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20070806141849717278454
Archive entry
20070806141849717278454.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#20070806141849717278454.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070806141849717278454.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016