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Pixelated text and blue square icons on black background, with repeated phrases 'shorty got low' in white pixel font.

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Pixelated text and blue square icons on black background, with repeated phrases 'shorty got low' in white pixel font.

Pixelated text and blue square icons on black background, with repeated phrases 'shorty got low' in white pixel font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text blocks
  • icon placement at corners and center bottom

Dense Caption

Black background displays repeating white pixel text: 'shorty got shorty got', 'low low', 'low'. Blue square icon elements appear at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-center positions. Each blue icon consists of four squares arranged in a 2x2 grid with one small dot above the top-left square; these icons are static across all visible frames.

Description

  • Pixelated text and blue square icons on black background, with repeated phrases 'shorty got low' in white pixel font.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711151438402034157352

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • shorty got low pixel art
  • blue square icon text background
  • repeating 'low' text blue icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: icon: 2x2 squares + dot

Visible Text

  • shorty got shorty got
  • low low
  • low

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixel text
  • blue square icons
  • 'shorty got' repeated
  • 'low low' repeated
  • 'low' repeated
  • four blue icon positions
  • icon: squares + dot

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711151438402034157352
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:57 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
535 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:57 UTC
Archive ID
a14b0fafe6300132
SHA-256
a14b0fafe6300132c68a9a7c45c9c0b6037555ba52bf989fd6790f729573e252
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:37 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081923

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Pixelated text and blue square icons on black background, with repeated phrases 'shorty got low' in white pixel font.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 18:37 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,160 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 625

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • repetitive (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • blue

Composition

  • centered text blocks
  • icon placement at corners and center bottom

Dense Caption

Black background displays repeating white pixel text: 'shorty got shorty got', 'low low', 'low'. Blue square icon elements appear at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-center positions. Each blue icon consists of four squares arranged in a 2x2 grid with one small dot above the top-left square; these icons are static across all visible frames.

Description

  • Pixelated text and blue square icons on black background, with repeated phrases 'shorty got low' in white pixel font.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711151438402034157352

Mood

  • playful
  • repetitive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • shorty got low pixel art
  • blue square icon text background
  • repeating 'low' text blue icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: icon: 2x2 squares + dot

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • shorty got shorty got
  • low low
  • low

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixel text
  • blue square icons
  • 'shorty got' repeated
  • 'low low' repeated
  • 'low' repeated
  • four blue icon positions
  • icon: squares + dot
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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
200711151438402034157352
Archive entry
200711151438402034157352.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:57 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#200711151438402034157352.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711151438402034157352.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016