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A static image with four black star-shaped icons on a beige striped background, each containing white text.

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A static image with four black star-shaped icons on a beige striped background, each containing white text.

A static image with four black star-shaped icons on a beige striped background, each containing white text. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • even spacing between icons
  • quadrant arrangement

Dense Caption

The image shows a static composition of four identical black star-shaped icons arranged in a 2x2 grid against a beige background with diagonal brown stripes. Each icon contains bold white sans-serif text: top-left reads 'tyler', top-right reads 'is', bottom-left reads 'THE', and bottom-right reads 'shit'. The icons are evenly spaced, each occupying one quadrant of the image. The background has subtle texture variations in the striped pattern.

Description

  • A static image with four black star-shaped icons on a beige striped background, each containing white text.

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

Named Entities

  • tyler

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • tyler is THE shit
  • beige striped background star icons
  • text-based
  • 4 white text icons beige background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four icons arranged 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: text-based icon grid

Visible Text

  • tyler
  • is
  • THE
  • shit

Visually Supported Entities

  • tyler

Wordwall

  • beige striped background
  • black star-shaped icons
  • white sans-serif text
  • four icons arranged
  • text: tyler is THE shit

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804071616321262803016
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9f/9fc395815f224efc093b69266b1666408f78da5b904a7b47b3096df73577ee5f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC
Archive ID
9fc395815f224efc
SHA-256
9fc395815f224efc093b69266b1666408f78da5b904a7b47b3096df73577ee5f
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 01:08 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.143220

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:18 UTC
Run
1135
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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A static image with four black star-shaped icons on a beige striped background, each containing white text.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 01:05 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,654 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 594

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • simplified (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • beige striped background (subject, 0.80)
  • star shaped icon (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • beige
  • brown
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • even spacing between icons
  • quadrant arrangement

Dense Caption

The image shows a static composition of four identical black star-shaped icons arranged in a 2x2 grid against a beige background with diagonal brown stripes. Each icon contains bold white sans-serif text: top-left reads 'tyler', top-right reads 'is', bottom-left reads 'THE', and bottom-right reads 'shit'. The icons are evenly spaced, each occupying one quadrant of the image. The background has subtle texture variations in the striped pattern.

Description

  • A static image with four black star-shaped icons on a beige striped background, each containing white text.

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

Named Entities

  • tyler

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • tyler is THE shit
  • beige striped background star icons
  • text-based
  • 4 white text icons beige background

Objects

  • star-shaped icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four icons arranged 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: text-based icon grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • simplified
  • text-based

Subjects

  • star-shaped icon
  • beige striped background

Visible Text

  • tyler
  • is
  • THE
  • shit

Visually Supported Entities

  • tyler

Wordwall

  • beige striped background
  • black star-shaped icons
  • white sans-serif text
  • four icons arranged
  • text: tyler is THE shit
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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
200804071616321262803016
Archive entry
200804071616321262803016.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 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#200804071616321262803016.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804071616321262803016.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016