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Pixelated text on blue background with yellow glow effects, displaying repeated phrases in white blocky font across four quadrants.

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Pixelated text on blue background with yellow glow effects, displaying repeated phrases in white blocky font across four quadrants.

Pixelated text on blue background with yellow glow effects, displaying repeated phrases in white blocky font across four quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • yellow glow effects shift position between quadrants

Animation Summary

  • Yellow glow effects shift position between quadrants

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • identical sections
  • text centered in each quadrant

Dense Caption

Four identical quadrants display white pixelated text on a blue background with yellow glow effects. Top text reads "SAMBA RULES" with a stylized 'S' resembling a '5'. Below it, "phoeBE" appears with a lowercase 'e' and 'B' capitalized. Next line shows "ANde kAte" with 'e' and 'A' lowercase, 'd' and 'k' lowercase, 't' lowercase, 'e' lowercase. Bottom text reads "BFFS!" with 'B' capitalized. Yellow glow effects are present behind text in each quadrant. The image is divided into four equal sections with identical content in each section.

Description

  • Pixelated text on blue background with yellow glow effects, displaying repeated phrases in white blocky font across four quadrants.

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

  • blue background yellow glow white pixelated text
  • SAMBA RULES phoeBE ANde kAte BFFS!
  • four quadrants identical sections
  • stylized S resembling 5

Visible Text

  • SAMBA RULES
  • phoeBE
  • ANde kAte
  • BFFS!

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • yellow glow effects
  • white pixelated text
  • SAMBA RULES
  • phoeBE
  • ANde kAte
  • BFFS!
  • four quadrants
  • identical sections
  • stylized 'S' resembling '5'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070828172942385575317
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/93/93d688f63fe98299d65332a7eb2fafb8b15022acbf79bb102624c64de9159321.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
93d688f63fe98299
SHA-256
93d688f63fe98299d65332a7eb2fafb8b15022acbf79bb102624c64de9159321
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:10 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091202

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.919969onnx/unsafe0.091202onnx/nsfw0.054283onnx/nsfl0.036920
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated text on blue background with yellow glow effects, displaying repeated phrases in white blocky font across four quadrants.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 06:47 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,991 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 756

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • glow effects (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • yellow glow effects shift position between quadrants

Animation Summary

  • Yellow glow effects shift position between quadrants

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • white

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • identical sections
  • text centered in each quadrant

Dense Caption

Four identical quadrants display white pixelated text on a blue background with yellow glow effects. Top text reads "SAMBA RULES" with a stylized 'S' resembling a '5'. Below it, "phoeBE" appears with a lowercase 'e' and 'B' capitalized. Next line shows "ANde kAte" with 'e' and 'A' lowercase, 'd' and 'k' lowercase, 't' lowercase, 'e' lowercase. Bottom text reads "BFFS!" with 'B' capitalized. Yellow glow effects are present behind text in each quadrant. The image is divided into four equal sections with identical content in each section.

Description

  • Pixelated text on blue background with yellow glow effects, displaying repeated phrases in white blocky font across four quadrants.

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

  • blue background yellow glow white pixelated text
  • SAMBA RULES phoeBE ANde kAte BFFS!
  • four quadrants identical sections
  • stylized S resembling 5

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • glow effects

Visible Text

  • SAMBA RULES
  • phoeBE
  • ANde kAte
  • BFFS!

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • yellow glow effects
  • white pixelated text
  • SAMBA RULES
  • phoeBE
  • ANde kAte
  • BFFS!
  • four quadrants
  • identical sections
  • stylized 'S' resembling '5'
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:29 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)
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
20070828172942385575317
Archive entry
20070828172942385575317.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#20070828172942385575317.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070828172942385575317.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016