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Pixelated red text on black background with green vine-like border, displaying repeated words 'Hoseguard', 'Sometmes', 'End' in

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Pixelated red text on black background with green vine-like border, displaying repeated words 'Hoseguard', 'Sometmes', 'End' in

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Composition

  • text
  • bordered

Dense Caption

Black background with green vine-like border. Red pixelated text: 'Hoseguard' appears top-left and top-right. 'Sometmes' appears middle-left and middle-right. 'End' appears center-left and center-right. 'Hoseguard' appears bottom-left and bottom-right. 'Sometmes' appears bottom-middle-left and bottom-middle-right. 'End' appears bottom-center-left and bottom-center-right. Text is arranged in a grid pattern. All text is red and pixelated. Border is green and vine-like. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated red text on black background with green vine-like border, displaying repeated words 'Hoseguard', 'Sometmes', 'End' in

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Hoseguard Sometmes End text
  • red pixelated text
  • green vine border text
  • repeated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated red text on black background with green vine-like border, displaying repeated words 'Hoseguard', 'Sometmes', 'End' in grid layout.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: red pixelated text grid

Visible Text

  • Hoseguard
  • Sometmes
  • End

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • green vine border
  • Hoseguard text
  • Sometmes text
  • End text
  • repeated text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080920111402356558246
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/98/9862654fe9e7a3ebe6fb5b073d1073e64118c3bfbf1fdc18da204523c0d45ebb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
9862654fe9e7a3eb
SHA-256
9862654fe9e7a3ebe6fb5b073d1073e64118c3bfbf1fdc18da204523c0d45ebb
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 21, 2026 at 05:50 UTC
Run
74
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087802

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated red text on black background with green vine-like border, displaying repeated words 'Hoseguard', 'Sometmes', 'End' in

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 00:56 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,035 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 604

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • green

Composition

  • text
  • bordered

Dense Caption

Black background with green vine-like border. Red pixelated text: 'Hoseguard' appears top-left and top-right. 'Sometmes' appears middle-left and middle-right. 'End' appears center-left and center-right. 'Hoseguard' appears bottom-left and bottom-right. 'Sometmes' appears bottom-middle-left and bottom-middle-right. 'End' appears bottom-center-left and bottom-center-right. Text is arranged in a grid pattern. All text is red and pixelated. Border is green and vine-like. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated red text on black background with green vine-like border, displaying repeated words 'Hoseguard', 'Sometmes', 'End' in

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Hoseguard Sometmes End text
  • red pixelated text
  • green vine border text
  • repeated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated red text on black background with green vine-like border, displaying repeated words 'Hoseguard', 'Sometmes', 'End' in grid layout.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: red pixelated text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • Hoseguard
  • Sometmes
  • End

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • green vine border
  • Hoseguard text
  • Sometmes text
  • End text
  • repeated 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
20080920111402356558246
Archive entry
20080920111402356558246.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#20080920111402356558246.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080920111402356558246.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016