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Pink background with white pixelated dots and green text repeating 'BE WEIRD... ITS COOL' in four identical quadrants.

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Pink background with white pixelated dots and green text repeating 'BE WEIRD... ITS COOL' in four identical quadrants.

Pink background with white pixelated dots and green text repeating 'BE WEIRD... ITS COOL' in four identical quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Mood

Color

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all observations show identical static content.

Composition

  • identical text blocks
  • centered layout
  • uniform spacing between quadrants

Dense Caption

The image features a pink background covered with scattered white pixelated dots. Four identical blocks of bright green text are arranged in a 2x2 grid: each block contains the phrase 'BE WEIRD... ITS COOL' in uppercase, with 'WEIRD...' having an ellipsis and slightly blurred lettering. The text is rendered in a retro digital font style. No animation changes are visible across observations; all quadrants display identical static content.

Description

  • Pink background with white pixelated dots and green text repeating 'BE WEIRD... ITS COOL' in four identical quadrants.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2007102917042220184986
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background green text 'BE WEIRD... ITS COOL'
  • retro digital font pink white dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation observed; all frames show identical content.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid of identical text blocks
  • quarantined retrieval: pink background green text 'BE WEIRD... ITS COOL' 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • BE WEIRD... ITS COOL

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white pixelated dots
  • bright green text
  • retro digital font
  • 'BE WEIRD... ITS COOL' phrase
  • uppercase letters
  • ellipses after 'WEIRD'
  • slightly blurred 'WEIRD...' text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2007102917042220184986
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/95/950ac141f03176fd2d59541940792fb07ee7b18f0c21dd65a34fa45f3e24ad34.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
950ac141f03176fd
SHA-256
950ac141f03176fd2d59541940792fb07ee7b18f0c21dd65a34fa45f3e24ad34
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:11 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.170268

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.871452onnx/unsafe0.170268onnx/nsfw0.139632onnx/nsfl0.030636
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pink background with white pixelated dots and green text repeating 'BE WEIRD... ITS COOL' in four identical quadrants.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 13:44 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,545 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 630

Review tags

  • bright green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • quirky (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all observations show identical static content.

Colors

  • pink
  • white
  • bright green

Composition

  • identical text blocks
  • centered layout
  • uniform spacing between quadrants

Dense Caption

The image features a pink background covered with scattered white pixelated dots. Four identical blocks of bright green text are arranged in a 2x2 grid: each block contains the phrase 'BE WEIRD... ITS COOL' in uppercase, with 'WEIRD...' having an ellipsis and slightly blurred lettering. The text is rendered in a retro digital font style. No animation changes are visible across observations; all quadrants display identical static content.

Description

  • Pink background with white pixelated dots and green text repeating 'BE WEIRD... ITS COOL' in four identical quadrants.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2007102917042220184986
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Mood

  • playful
  • quirky

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background green text 'BE WEIRD... ITS COOL'
  • retro digital font pink white dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation observed; all frames show identical content.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid of identical text blocks
  • quarantined retrieval: pink background green text 'BE WEIRD... ITS COOL' 2x2 grid

Style

  • retro digital
  • pixelated
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • BE WEIRD... ITS COOL

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white pixelated dots
  • bright green text
  • retro digital font
  • 'BE WEIRD... ITS COOL' phrase
  • uppercase letters
  • ellipses after 'WEIRD'
  • slightly blurred 'WEIRD...' text
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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
2007102917042220184986
Archive entry
2007102917042220184986.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#2007102917042220184986.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2007102917042220184986.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016