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Pixelated text 'wowa' and 'weewa' displayed in four quadrants with alternating black, white, and gray backgrounds.

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Pixelated text 'wowa' and 'weewa' displayed in four quadrants with alternating black, white, and gray backgrounds.

Pixelated text 'wowa' and 'weewa' displayed in four quadrants with alternating black, white, and gray backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Source terms

Composition

  • quadrant layout
  • text centered in each quadrant

Dense Caption

The image consists of a 2x2 grid layout. Top-left quadrant is solid black background with no visible content. Bottom-left quadrant has white background displaying two lines of pixelated text: first line 'wowa', second line 'weewa'. Top-right quadrant has light gray background displaying two lines of pixelated text: first line 'wowa', second line 'weewa'. Bottom-right quadrant has medium gray background displaying two lines of pixelated text: first line 'wowa', second line 'weewa'. All text uses a blocky, low-resolution font style. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'wowa' and 'weewa' displayed in four quadrants with alternating black, white, and gray backgrounds.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803211317221302540335

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • wowa weewa pixelated text
  • four quadrant
  • black white gray backgrounds
  • blocky font text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 'weewa' on bottom row
  • quarantined wordwall: 'wowa' on top row
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four quadrant grid

Visible Text

  • wowa
  • weewa

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • 'wowa' on top
  • 'weewa' on bottom
  • black background quadrant
  • white background quadrant
  • light gray background quadrant
  • medium gray background quadrant

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803211317221302540335
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
466 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a1/a1ed459f22972cbacf380a7d8ec6bfae0c9ed045eda6d4d375d838f7369d0ff2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC
Archive ID
a1ed459f22972cba
SHA-256
a1ed459f22972cbacf380a7d8ec6bfae0c9ed045eda6d4d375d838f7369d0ff2
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 4, 2026 at 09:33 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000072

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 21:49 UTC
Run
1245
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001208

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.001208falsesexual0.000796falseself-harm0.000464falseviolence/graphic0.000015falseself-harm/intent0.000005falseself-harm/instructions0.000002falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.512372

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text 'wowa' and 'weewa' displayed in four quadrants with alternating black, white, and gray backgrounds.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 09:05 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,500 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 699

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • medium gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • light gray
  • medium gray

Composition

  • quadrant layout
  • text centered in each quadrant

Dense Caption

The image consists of a 2x2 grid layout. Top-left quadrant is solid black background with no visible content. Bottom-left quadrant has white background displaying two lines of pixelated text: first line 'wowa', second line 'weewa'. Top-right quadrant has light gray background displaying two lines of pixelated text: first line 'wowa', second line 'weewa'. Bottom-right quadrant has medium gray background displaying two lines of pixelated text: first line 'wowa', second line 'weewa'. All text uses a blocky, low-resolution font style. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'wowa' and 'weewa' displayed in four quadrants with alternating black, white, and gray backgrounds.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803211317221302540335

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • wowa weewa pixelated text
  • four quadrant
  • black white gray backgrounds
  • blocky font text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 'weewa' on bottom row
  • quarantined wordwall: 'wowa' on top row
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four quadrant grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • wowa
  • weewa

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • 'wowa' on top
  • 'weewa' on bottom
  • black background quadrant
  • white background quadrant
  • light gray background quadrant
  • medium gray background quadrant
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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
200803211317221302540335
Archive entry
200803211317221302540335.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 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#200803211317221302540335.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803211317221302540335.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016