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Yellow background with red pixelated patterns and repeated black text reading 'hey yall whats up?' in two

Yellow background with red pixelated patterns and repeated black text reading 'hey yall whats up?' in two. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two identical text blocks side-by-side
  • vertical alignment of text blocks
  • uniform background with repeating patterns

Dense Caption

The image features a bright yellow background overlaid with repeating red pixelated starburst or cross-shaped patterns. Two identical horizontal blocks of black pixelated text appear, each containing the phrase "hey yall" on the first line and "whats up?" on the second line; these two blocks are positioned side-by-side in vertical alignment. The entire composition is static with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Yellow background with red pixelated patterns and repeated black text reading 'hey yall whats up?' in two

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071118053020925681617

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow red text hey yall whats up
  • pixelated yellow background starburst patterns

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in any observation; all frames show identical content
  • quarantined description: Yellow background with red pixelated patterns and repeated black text reading 'hey yall whats up?' in two rows.

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • hey yall
  • whats up?

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • red pixelated patterns
  • black text
  • hey yall
  • whats up?
  • repeated text
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071118053020925681617
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a0/a01d059085c0e40b049236c190ff6584f72c4c77c8c0ce2934f43d96bf8585e5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 UTC
Archive ID
a01d059085c0e40b
SHA-256
a01d059085c0e40b049236c190ff6584f72c4c77c8c0ce2934f43d96bf8585e5
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
0.080124

OpenAI category scores

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Yellow background with red pixelated patterns and repeated black text reading 'hey yall whats up?' in two

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 19:45 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,811 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 696

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • informal (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive pattern (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • red
  • black

Composition

  • two identical text blocks side-by-side
  • vertical alignment of text blocks
  • uniform background with repeating patterns

Dense Caption

The image features a bright yellow background overlaid with repeating red pixelated starburst or cross-shaped patterns. Two identical horizontal blocks of black pixelated text appear, each containing the phrase "hey yall" on the first line and "whats up?" on the second line; these two blocks are positioned side-by-side in vertical alignment. The entire composition is static with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Yellow background with red pixelated patterns and repeated black text reading 'hey yall whats up?' in two

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071118053020925681617

Mood

  • casual
  • informal

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow red text hey yall whats up
  • pixelated yellow background starburst patterns

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in any observation; all frames show identical content
  • quarantined description: Yellow background with red pixelated patterns and repeated black text reading 'hey yall whats up?' in two rows.

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • repetitive pattern

Visible Text

  • hey yall
  • whats up?

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • red pixelated patterns
  • black text
  • hey yall
  • whats up?
  • repeated text
  • pixelated font
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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
20071118053020925681617
Archive entry
20071118053020925681617.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 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#20071118053020925681617.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071118053020925681617.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016