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Pixelated text on a blue and green checkered background with repeated phrases.

Pixelated text on a blue and green checkered background with repeated phrases. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two vertical
  • repeated text
  • checkered background

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated text-based design on a blue and green checkered background. The text reads "HI IM MARC AND IM PROUD!!!" in white, blocky, pixelated letters. The text appears in two identical vertical columns, each containing the phrase repeated three times. The background consists of alternating blue and green diamond-shaped tiles. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a blue and green checkered background with repeated phrases.

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

  • blue green checkered background
  • pixelated text HI IM MARC
  • HI IM MARC AND IM PROUD
  • repeated text
  • retro digital graphics
  • blocky white lettering
  • diamond background
  • proud text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: diamond-shaped tiles
  • quarantined wordwall: two vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: two vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: diamond tiles background
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated text columns

Visible Text

  • HI
  • IM MARC
  • AND
  • IM
  • PROUD!!!

Wordwall

  • blue and green checkered background
  • pixelated white text
  • HI IM MARC AND IM PROUD!!!
  • repeated three times
  • two vertical
  • blocky lettering
  • retro digital appearance
  • diamond-shaped

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200707301415381178361051
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/98/98b04beb1db61ebb958847864a5e6f73ea9192dff06dd459ba9f7c61a7aade39.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
98b04beb1db61ebb
SHA-256
98b04beb1db61ebb958847864a5e6f73ea9192dff06dd459ba9f7c61a7aade39
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.080892

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated text on a blue and green checkered background with repeated phrases.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 16:27 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,643 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 713

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • assertive (mood, 0.80)
  • proud (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky lettering (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • green
  • white

Composition

  • two vertical
  • repeated text
  • checkered background

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated text-based design on a blue and green checkered background. The text reads "HI IM MARC AND IM PROUD!!!" in white, blocky, pixelated letters. The text appears in two identical vertical columns, each containing the phrase repeated three times. The background consists of alternating blue and green diamond-shaped tiles. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a blue and green checkered background with repeated phrases.

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

Mood

  • proud
  • assertive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue green checkered background
  • pixelated text HI IM MARC
  • HI IM MARC AND IM PROUD
  • repeated text
  • retro digital graphics
  • blocky white lettering
  • diamond background
  • proud text

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: two vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: two vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: diamond tiles background
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated text columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky lettering

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • HI
  • IM MARC
  • AND
  • IM
  • PROUD!!!

Wordwall

  • blue and green checkered background
  • pixelated white text
  • HI IM MARC AND IM PROUD!!!
  • repeated three times
  • two vertical
  • blocky lettering
  • retro digital appearance
  • diamond-shaped
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:49 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200707301415381178361051
Archive entry
200707301415381178361051.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#200707301415381178361051.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200707301415381178361051.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016