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Pixelated text repeats across a black background with cyan dots, featuring pink and cyan lettering.

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Pixelated text repeats across a black background with cyan dots, featuring pink and cyan lettering.

Pixelated text repeats across a black background with cyan dots, featuring pink and cyan lettering. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeating text
  • scattered cyan dots

Dense Caption

Black background with scattered cyan dots. Repeating text in bright pink: 'my bfll', 'tiana', 'ryan', 'Heather and', 'mike'. Text repeats in columns and rows. Cyan dots appear as small scattered pixels. Text is pixelated with blocky, low-resolution characters. No visible motion or animation changes. All text is in uppercase with consistent spacing. Cyan dots are distributed randomly across the black background. The text 'Heather and' appears with a missing 'a' in 'and'.

Description

  • Pixelated text repeats across a black background with cyan dots, featuring pink and cyan lettering.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink text black background
  • cyan dots repeating text
  • pixelated text
  • repeating 'my bfll' 'tiana' 'ryan'

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: text rows
  • quarantined wordwall: text columns
  • quarantined composition: repeating text rows
  • quarantined composition: repeating text columns
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text columns

Visible Text

  • my bfll
  • tiana
  • ryan
  • Heather and
  • mike

Wordwall

  • black background
  • cyan dots
  • pink text
  • cyan text
  • repeating text
  • pixelated characters
  • blocky font
  • uppercase letters
  • scattered dots
  • text
  • missing 'a' in 'and'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711291726281315238371
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9b/9b054204afd9b15699fc12d42cb666d1f18731dd4f275326d674daa049fcc5e1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC
Archive ID
9b054204afd9b156
SHA-256
9b054204afd9b15699fc12d42cb666d1f18731dd4f275326d674daa049fcc5e1
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 12:31 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010312

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 27, 2026 at 12:26 UTC
Run
1196
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000716

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.000716falseviolence0.000534falseself-harm0.000461falseself-harm/intent0.000213falseviolence/graphic0.000007falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
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
0.628005

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated text repeats across a black background with cyan dots, featuring pink and cyan lettering.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 12:25 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,582 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,123, response 691

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • cyan
  • pink

Composition

  • repeating text
  • scattered cyan dots

Dense Caption

Black background with scattered cyan dots. Repeating text in bright pink: 'my bfll', 'tiana', 'ryan', 'Heather and', 'mike'. Text repeats in columns and rows. Cyan dots appear as small scattered pixels. Text is pixelated with blocky, low-resolution characters. No visible motion or animation changes. All text is in uppercase with consistent spacing. Cyan dots are distributed randomly across the black background. The text 'Heather and' appears with a missing 'a' in 'and'.

Description

  • Pixelated text repeats across a black background with cyan dots, featuring pink and cyan lettering.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink text black background
  • cyan dots repeating text
  • pixelated text
  • repeating 'my bfll' 'tiana' 'ryan'

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: text rows
  • quarantined wordwall: text columns
  • quarantined composition: repeating text rows
  • quarantined composition: repeating text columns
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Visible Text

  • my bfll
  • tiana
  • ryan
  • Heather and
  • mike

Wordwall

  • black background
  • cyan dots
  • pink text
  • cyan text
  • repeating text
  • pixelated characters
  • blocky font
  • uppercase letters
  • scattered dots
  • text
  • missing 'a' in 'and'
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:46 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200711291726281315238371
Archive entry
200711291726281315238371.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 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#200711291726281315238371.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711291726281315238371.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016