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A black background displays white pixelated text listing names in a pattern with visible artifacts and repeated entries

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two identical side-by-side grids
  • vertical text arrangement
  • alternating square border framing

Dense Caption

Black background features white pixelated text arranged in vertical columns. Text reads Jessica, Kaitlyn, Jesse, Bridget, Audrey, Jessica, Kaitlyn, Jesse, Bridget, Audrey from top to bottom across two identical side-by-side grids. Each grid contains ten name entries with consistent spacing and alignment. Pixelation causes slight blurring on some characters; the left grid shows minor horizontal distortion in the middle section while the right grid remains stable. The entire composition is framed by a border of alternating light gray and white squares.

Description

  • A black background displays white pixelated text listing names in a pattern with visible artifacts and repeated entries

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: historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Named Entities

  • Jessica
  • Kaitlyn
  • Jesse
  • Bridget
  • Audrey

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background white pixelated names
  • two identical grids repeated names
  • alternating square border text layout
  • pixelation artifacts horizontal distortion

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate animated asset but no visible motion changes detected in provided frames
  • quarantined description: A black background displays white pixelated text listing names in a grid pattern with visible artifacts and repeated entries.
  • quarantined wordwall: horizontal distortion in left grid
  • quarantined wordwall: vertical column layout
  • quarantined wordwall: ten name entries per grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: vertical column text arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: black background white pixelated names grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visible Text

  • Jessica
  • Kaitlyn
  • Jesse
  • Bridget
  • Audrey

Visually Supported Entities

  • Jessica
  • Kaitlyn
  • Jesse
  • Bridget
  • Audrey

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • two identical grids
  • ten name entries per
  • repeated names: Jessica, Kaitlyn, Jesse, Bridget, Audrey
  • vertical layout
  • alternating square border
  • pixelation artifacts
  • horizontal distortion in left

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080131124746403766785
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/97/97e64fbad6be315935e8ba88fae3748db6ddaba7612ba5f8b43e095e92215992.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC
Archive ID
97e64fbad6be3159
SHA-256
97e64fbad6be315935e8ba88fae3748db6ddaba7612ba5f8b43e095e92215992
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.076551

OpenAI category scores

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A black background displays white pixelated text listing names in a pattern with visible artifacts and repeated entries

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 13:54 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,108 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 757

Review tags

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  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • names (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • light gray

Composition

  • two identical side-by-side grids
  • vertical text arrangement
  • alternating square border framing

Dense Caption

Black background features white pixelated text arranged in vertical columns. Text reads Jessica, Kaitlyn, Jesse, Bridget, Audrey, Jessica, Kaitlyn, Jesse, Bridget, Audrey from top to bottom across two identical side-by-side grids. Each grid contains ten name entries with consistent spacing and alignment. Pixelation causes slight blurring on some characters; the left grid shows minor horizontal distortion in the middle section while the right grid remains stable. The entire composition is framed by a border of alternating light gray and white squares.

Description

  • A black background displays white pixelated text listing names in a pattern with visible artifacts and repeated entries

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: historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Named Entities

  • Jessica
  • Kaitlyn
  • Jesse
  • Bridget
  • Audrey

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background white pixelated names
  • two identical grids repeated names
  • alternating square border text layout
  • pixelation artifacts horizontal distortion

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate animated asset but no visible motion changes detected in provided frames
  • quarantined description: A black background displays white pixelated text listing names in a grid pattern with visible artifacts and repeated entries.
  • quarantined wordwall: horizontal distortion in left grid
  • quarantined wordwall: vertical column layout
  • quarantined wordwall: ten name entries per grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: vertical column text arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: black background white pixelated names grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Subjects

  • names

Visible Text

  • Jessica
  • Kaitlyn
  • Jesse
  • Bridget
  • Audrey

Visually Supported Entities

  • Jessica
  • Kaitlyn
  • Jesse
  • Bridget
  • Audrey

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • two identical grids
  • ten name entries per
  • repeated names: Jessica, Kaitlyn, Jesse, Bridget, Audrey
  • vertical layout
  • alternating square border
  • pixelation artifacts
  • horizontal distortion in left
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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
20080131124746403766785
Archive entry
20080131124746403766785.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 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#20080131124746403766785.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080131124746403766785.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016