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Pixelated cyan text 'mystery' repeats across a purple background with four green circular gradients arranged in a

Pixelated cyan text 'mystery' repeats across a purple background with four green circular gradients arranged in a. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four identical circles
  • text above and below

Dense Caption

The image displays a 2x2 grid of four identical green circular gradients on a solid purple background. Each circle has a bright green center that fades into a darker green and then purple at the edges. Above the top two circles and below the bottom two circles, the word 'mystery' appears in cyan pixelated text, repeated twice per row. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics. The overall composition is symmetrical with no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text 'mystery' repeats across a purple background with four green circular gradients arranged in a

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

  • mystery text green circles purple background
  • cyan text purple background green gradients
  • pixelated mystery text
  • repeated mystery text green circles

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated cyan text 'mystery' repeats across a purple background with four green circular gradients arranged in a 2x2 grid.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: text above and below grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated mystery text grid

Visible Text

  • mystery

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • purple background
  • green circular gradients
  • pixelated font
  • symmetrical layout
  • repeated text
  • low-resolution graphics
  • solid color background
  • gradient circles

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201109141156161484048972
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 UTC
Archive ID
9a0195cfb1f5257d
SHA-256
9a0195cfb1f5257d9ec3c0d87d0d8615d9d31c829e15b889c846d53b36c46be9
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 30, 2026 at 02:48 UTC
Run
15966
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000025

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010199

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:15 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.245031

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated cyan text 'mystery' repeats across a purple background with four green circular gradients arranged in a

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 00:48 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,832 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,116, response 688

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • symmetrical (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • purple
  • green

Composition

  • four identical circles
  • text above and below

Dense Caption

The image displays a 2x2 grid of four identical green circular gradients on a solid purple background. Each circle has a bright green center that fades into a darker green and then purple at the edges. Above the top two circles and below the bottom two circles, the word 'mystery' appears in cyan pixelated text, repeated twice per row. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics. The overall composition is symmetrical with no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text 'mystery' repeats across a purple background with four green circular gradients arranged in a

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

  • mystery text green circles purple background
  • cyan text purple background green gradients
  • pixelated mystery text
  • repeated mystery text green circles

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated cyan text 'mystery' repeats across a purple background with four green circular gradients arranged in a 2x2 grid.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: text above and below grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated mystery text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • symmetrical
  • repetitive

Visible Text

  • mystery

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • purple background
  • green circular gradients
  • pixelated font
  • symmetrical layout
  • repeated text
  • low-resolution graphics
  • solid color background
  • gradient circles
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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
201109141156161484048972
Archive entry
201109141156161484048972.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 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#201109141156161484048972.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201109141156161484048972.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016