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A static image with bright pink background and repeated white text "Bubba" in a pixelated font, showing horizontal banding artifacts.

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A static image with bright pink background and repeated white text "Bubba" in a pixelated font, showing horizontal banding artifacts.

A static image with bright pink background and repeated white text "Bubba" in a pixelated font, showing horizontal banding artifacts. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image
  • no motion observed

Composition

  • horizontal banding artifacts
  • two of identical text

Dense Caption

The image displays a solid bright magenta-pink background. Overlaid is the word "Bubba" repeated horizontally across two rows of identical text. The text is rendered in a blocky, pixelated white font with visible anti-aliasing and slight blurring on edges. Horizontal banding artifacts are present throughout the image, creating irregular white stripes that intersect the text. No other visual elements or subjects appear.

Description

  • A static image with bright pink background and repeated white text "Bubba" in a pixelated font, showing horizontal banding artifacts.

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

  • bubba text icon
  • magenta pink pixelated text
  • repeated bubba image
  • banding artifacts magenta

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two rows of identical text

Visible Text

  • Bubba

Visually Supported Entities

  • Bubba

Wordwall

  • bright magenta-pink background
  • repeated "Bubba" text
  • pixelated white font
  • horizontal banding artifacts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080503064714838651425
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a1/a11066eadb6eeed87ddc525c51936c775f3386443f2eb44700cecc0d111914e0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC
Archive ID
a11066eadb6eeed8
SHA-256
a11066eadb6eeed87ddc525c51936c775f3386443f2eb44700cecc0d111914e0
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 11:26 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010145

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 30, 2026 at 04:36 UTC
Run
1245
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.002834

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.002834falseviolence0.001314falseself-harm0.000473falseviolence/graphic0.000017falseself-harm/intent0.000006falseself-harm/instructions0.000003falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.495589

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A static image with bright pink background and repeated white text "Bubba" in a pixelated font, showing horizontal banding artifacts.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 11:22 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,990 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,164, response 621

Review tags

  • magenta pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • no motion observed (other, 0.80)
  • static image (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive text layout (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image
  • no motion observed

Colors

  • magenta-pink
  • white

Composition

  • horizontal banding artifacts
  • two of identical text

Dense Caption

The image displays a solid bright magenta-pink background. Overlaid is the word "Bubba" repeated horizontally across two rows of identical text. The text is rendered in a blocky, pixelated white font with visible anti-aliasing and slight blurring on edges. Horizontal banding artifacts are present throughout the image, creating irregular white stripes that intersect the text. No other visual elements or subjects appear.

Description

  • A static image with bright pink background and repeated white text "Bubba" in a pixelated font, showing horizontal banding artifacts.

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

  • bubba text icon
  • magenta pink pixelated text
  • repeated bubba image
  • banding artifacts magenta

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two rows of identical text

Style

  • pixelated
  • repetitive text layout

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • Bubba

Visually Supported Entities

  • Bubba

Wordwall

  • bright magenta-pink background
  • repeated "Bubba" text
  • pixelated white font
  • horizontal banding artifacts
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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
20080503064714838651425
Archive entry
20080503064714838651425.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 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#20080503064714838651425.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080503064714838651425.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016