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Pixelated image with green and orange text overlays on a background of colorful, rounded shapes resembling cartoon characters.

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Pixelated image with green and orange text overlays on a background of colorful, rounded shapes resembling cartoon characters.

Pixelated image with green and orange text overlays on a background of colorful, rounded shapes resembling cartoon characters. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes across quadrants

Animation Summary

  • Text elements change across quadrants: top-left shows "Thomas B268", top-right shows "is", bottom-left shows "awesome".

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text overlays on shapes

Dense Caption

The image consists of four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows red text "Thomas" on green background and red text "B268" on green background. Top-right quadrant shows green text "is" with orange outline on blue rounded shape. Bottom-left quadrant shows green text "awesome" on green background on blue rounded shape. Background features pixelated cartoon characters with green, blue, and orange colors. The right half of the image is grayed out in the bottom-right quadrant.

Description

  • Pixelated image with green and orange text overlays on a background of colorful, rounded shapes resembling cartoon characters.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • thomas b268 is awesome
  • green orange red text
  • pixelated cartoon characters
  • text overlays on shapes
  • four quadrants
  • grayed out right half
  • blue rounded shape
  • green rounded shape

Style

  • cartoon

Visible Text

  • Thomas
  • B268
  • is
  • awesome

Wordwall

  • green text
  • orange outline
  • red text
  • blue rounded shape
  • green rounded shape
  • orange character
  • pixelated
  • text overlays
  • four quadrants
  • grayed out right half

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100802010346457150118
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a1/a1cee1d5cfb35db36affa5713ea12741e5705d67bca3ac168938a457dc583825.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC
Archive ID
a1cee1d5cfb35db3
SHA-256
a1cee1d5cfb35db36affa5713ea12741e5705d67bca3ac168938a457dc583825
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:19 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.109080

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image with green and orange text overlays on a background of colorful, rounded shapes resembling cartoon characters.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 20:13 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,320 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 683

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • rounded shapes (object, 0.80)
  • text changes across quadrants (other, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon characters (subject, 0.80)
  • text overlays (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • text changes across quadrants

Animation Summary

  • Text elements change across quadrants: top-left shows "Thomas B268", top-right shows "is", bottom-left shows "awesome".

Colors

  • green
  • orange
  • red
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text overlays on shapes

Dense Caption

The image consists of four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows red text "Thomas" on green background and red text "B268" on green background. Top-right quadrant shows green text "is" with orange outline on blue rounded shape. Bottom-left quadrant shows green text "awesome" on green background on blue rounded shape. Background features pixelated cartoon characters with green, blue, and orange colors. The right half of the image is grayed out in the bottom-right quadrant.

Description

  • Pixelated image with green and orange text overlays on a background of colorful, rounded shapes resembling cartoon characters.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • thomas b268 is awesome
  • green orange red text
  • pixelated cartoon characters
  • text overlays on shapes
  • four quadrants
  • grayed out right half
  • blue rounded shape
  • green rounded shape

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  • rounded shapes

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon characters
  • text overlays

Visible Text

  • Thomas
  • B268
  • is
  • awesome

Wordwall

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  • orange outline
  • red text
  • blue rounded shape
  • green rounded shape
  • orange character
  • pixelated
  • text overlays
  • four quadrants
  • grayed out right half
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 23:00 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20100802010346457150118
Archive entry
20100802010346457150118.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 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#20100802010346457150118.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100802010346457150118.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016