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Pixelated of purple, yellow, and brown squares with four instances of the text 'MAOi' in black block letters

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Pixelated of purple, yellow, and brown squares with four instances of the text 'MAOi' in black block letters

Pixelated of purple, yellow, and brown squares with four instances of the text 'MAOi' in black block letters. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Source terms

Composition

  • four text instances
  • non-repeating square
  • text positioned at corners

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixel art composition consisting of a grid of square pixels in purple, yellow, and brown tones. Four distinct instances of the text 'MAOi' appear in black block letters, each positioned over the grid: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. The text uses a pixelated font with black pixels forming the characters. The background grid alternates between purple, yellow, and brown squares in a non-repeating pattern. No animation or motion is present in the image.

Description

  • Pixelated of purple, yellow, and brown squares with four instances of the text 'MAOi' in black block letters

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • MAOi pixel art
  • four MAOi texts
  • purple yellow brown
  • black block letter text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated grid of purple, yellow, and brown squares with four instances of the text 'MAOi' in black block letters.
  • quarantined wordwall: non-repeating grid
  • quarantined style: grid-based
  • quarantined composition: non-repeating square grid
  • quarantined retrieval: purple yellow brown grid

Visible Text

  • MAOi

Wordwall

  • purple squares
  • yellow squares
  • brown squares
  • four 'MAOi' texts
  • black block letters
  • pixelated font
  • non-repeating
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902051806401184702249
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/98/9861815c25a42f6a46216843f588e0f0e8067703713dc136d4e89c34f25318ea.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC
Archive ID
9861815c25a42f6a
SHA-256
9861815c25a42f6a46216843f588e0f0e8067703713dc136d4e89c34f25318ea
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:13 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.117455

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.913820onnx/unsafe0.117455onnx/nsfw0.084208onnx/nsfl0.033247
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Pixelated of purple, yellow, and brown squares with four instances of the text 'MAOi' in black block letters

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 21:42 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,630 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,117, response 668

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • based (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • yellow
  • brown
  • black

Composition

  • four text instances
  • non-repeating square
  • text positioned at corners

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixel art composition consisting of a grid of square pixels in purple, yellow, and brown tones. Four distinct instances of the text 'MAOi' appear in black block letters, each positioned over the grid: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. The text uses a pixelated font with black pixels forming the characters. The background grid alternates between purple, yellow, and brown squares in a non-repeating pattern. No animation or motion is present in the image.

Description

  • Pixelated of purple, yellow, and brown squares with four instances of the text 'MAOi' in black block letters

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • MAOi pixel art
  • four MAOi texts
  • purple yellow brown
  • black block letter text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated grid of purple, yellow, and brown squares with four instances of the text 'MAOi' in black block letters.
  • quarantined wordwall: non-repeating grid
  • quarantined style: grid-based
  • quarantined composition: non-repeating square grid
  • quarantined retrieval: purple yellow brown grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • static
  • based

Visible Text

  • MAOi

Wordwall

  • purple squares
  • yellow squares
  • brown squares
  • four 'MAOi' texts
  • black block letters
  • pixelated font
  • non-repeating
  • static image
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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
200902051806401184702249
Archive entry
200902051806401184702249.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 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#200902051806401184702249.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902051806401184702249.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016