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Four display "Retard Alert" text in cyan pixelated font against red, light pink, white, and coral backgrounds

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Four display "Retard Alert" text in cyan pixelated font against red, light pink, white, and coral backgrounds

Four display "Retard Alert" text in cyan pixelated font against red, light pink, white, and coral backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Composition

  • four equal quadrants
  • text centered in each quadrant

Dense Caption

The image consists of four quadrants arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left quadrant: solid red background with cyan pixelated text reading "Retard Alert." Top-right quadrant: solid light pink background with cyan pixelated text reading "Retard Alert." Bottom-left quadrant: solid white background with cyan pixelated text reading "Retard Alert." Bottom-right quadrant: solid coral background with cyan pixelated text reading "Retard Alert." All text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics. No animation or motion changes are visible across the panels.

Description

  • Four display "Retard Alert" text in cyan pixelated font against red, light pink, white, and coral 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090107082654612556388

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • retard alert cyan text red background
  • retard alert light pink background
  • retard alert white background
  • retard alert coral background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four panels display "Retard Alert" text in cyan pixelated font against red, light pink, white, and coral backgrounds.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout

Visible Text

  • Retard Alert

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • "Retard Alert"
  • red background
  • light pink background
  • white background
  • coral background
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090107082654612556388
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/97/978ae51190c75619c4c5a8565b1ea8f0b8dd63b9612e0b63e1c039549f051bb0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
Archive ID
978ae51190c75619
SHA-256
978ae51190c75619c4c5a8565b1ea8f0b8dd63b9612e0b63e1c039549f051bb0
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:12 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085892

OpenAI category scores

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Four display "Retard Alert" text in cyan pixelated font against red, light pink, white, and coral backgrounds

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 17:04 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,072 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 684

Review tags

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  • light pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • red
  • light pink
  • white
  • coral
  • cyan

Composition

  • four equal quadrants
  • text centered in each quadrant

Dense Caption

The image consists of four quadrants arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left quadrant: solid red background with cyan pixelated text reading "Retard Alert." Top-right quadrant: solid light pink background with cyan pixelated text reading "Retard Alert." Bottom-left quadrant: solid white background with cyan pixelated text reading "Retard Alert." Bottom-right quadrant: solid coral background with cyan pixelated text reading "Retard Alert." All text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics. No animation or motion changes are visible across the panels.

Description

  • Four display "Retard Alert" text in cyan pixelated font against red, light pink, white, and coral 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090107082654612556388

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • retard alert cyan text red background
  • retard alert light pink background
  • retard alert white background
  • retard alert coral background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four panels display "Retard Alert" text in cyan pixelated font against red, light pink, white, and coral backgrounds.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution graphics

Visible Text

  • Retard Alert

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • "Retard Alert"
  • red background
  • light pink background
  • white background
  • coral background
  • pixelated font
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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
20090107082654612556388
Archive entry
20090107082654612556388.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 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#20090107082654612556388.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090107082654612556388.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016