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Pixelated text and emoticon on cyan background with green diamond pattern, repeated in four identical quadrants.

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Pixelated text and emoticon on cyan background with green diamond pattern, repeated in four identical quadrants.

Pixelated text and emoticon on cyan background with green diamond pattern, repeated in four identical quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Style

Mood

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Source terms

Composition

  • four identical quadrants
  • vertical text layout

Dense Caption

Cyan background features a repeating green diamond lattice pattern. Four identical pixelated sections display black text: "Geek Slug is coolio! =]" arranged vertically. Text uses blocky 8-bit style font; "coolio!" includes exclamation mark, "=]" is emoticon. All four quadrants show exact same content with no visible differences.

Description

  • Pixelated text and emoticon on cyan background with green diamond pattern, repeated in four identical quadrants.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • geek slug coolio
  • cyan green diamond text
  • pixelated emoticon =]
  • 8-bit geek slug icon

Visible Text

  • Geek
  • Slug
  • is
  • coolio!
  • =]

Visually Supported Entities

  • Geek Slug

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • green diamond lattice
  • pixelated text
  • Geek Slug
  • is coolio!
  • =]
  • blocky font
  • exclamation mark
  • emoticon

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801260915582032469658
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9f/9ffad1708083564e152a1408196ec7854e68fd47cf60d0b5cf51bc3570e0558e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Archive ID
9ffad1708083564e
SHA-256
9ffad1708083564e152a1408196ec7854e68fd47cf60d0b5cf51bc3570e0558e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:18 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.257496

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and emoticon on cyan background with green diamond pattern, repeated in four identical quadrants.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 13:04 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,181 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 570

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • emoticon (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • green
  • black

Composition

  • four identical quadrants
  • vertical text layout

Dense Caption

Cyan background features a repeating green diamond lattice pattern. Four identical pixelated sections display black text: "Geek Slug is coolio! =]" arranged vertically. Text uses blocky 8-bit style font; "coolio!" includes exclamation mark, "=]" is emoticon. All four quadrants show exact same content with no visible differences.

Description

  • Pixelated text and emoticon on cyan background with green diamond pattern, repeated in four identical quadrants.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • geek slug coolio
  • cyan green diamond text
  • pixelated emoticon =]
  • 8-bit geek slug icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • text
  • emoticon

Visible Text

  • Geek
  • Slug
  • is
  • coolio!
  • =]

Visually Supported Entities

  • Geek Slug

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • green diamond lattice
  • pixelated text
  • Geek Slug
  • is coolio!
  • =]
  • blocky font
  • exclamation mark
  • emoticon
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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
200801260915582032469658
Archive entry
200801260915582032469658.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 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#200801260915582032469658.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801260915582032469658.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016