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Pixelated text on a blue and white checkered background reads "I am so bored =[" in two vertical

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Pixelated text on a blue and white checkered background reads "I am so bored =[" in two vertical

Pixelated text on a blue and white checkered background reads "I am so bored =[" in two vertical. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • The image is static with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • two vertical
  • stacked text
  • checkered background

Dense Caption

The image consists of two identical vertical columns of pixelated text on a blue and white checkered background. Each column displays the text "I am so bored =[" in black, blocky, pixelated letters. The background features a pattern of alternating blue and white squares. The text is arranged in a stacked format with each word on a separate line. The overall style is low-resolution and pixelated, characteristic of early digital graphics. The text is identical in both columns, with no visible differences between them.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a blue and white checkered background reads "I am so bored =[" in two vertical

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 20070819125758372930721

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bored emoticon
  • pixelated text icon
  • blue checkered background
  • I am so bored
  • buddy icon text
  • low resolution text
  • two text
  • bored emoticon icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected
  • quarantined description: Pixelated text on a blue and white checkered background reads "I am so bored =[" in two vertical columns.
  • quarantined wordwall: identical columns
  • quarantined wordwall: two vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: two vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: two column text

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • I
  • am
  • so
  • bored
  • =[

Wordwall

  • blue and white checkered background
  • pixelated text
  • I am so bored =[
  • two vertical
  • black blocky letters
  • stacked text layout
  • low-resolution graphics
  • identical

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070819125758372930721
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a2/a2bff74ca4d06c4c06433accb7c1712e904b420db1024b5c2c7657b12d17c793.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
a2bff74ca4d06c4c
SHA-256
a2bff74ca4d06c4c06433accb7c1712e904b420db1024b5c2c7657b12d17c793
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:57 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.127854

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.887822onnx/unsafe0.127854onnx/nsfw0.090624onnx/nsfl0.037230
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated text on a blue and white checkered background reads "I am so bored =[" in two vertical

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 02:11 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,081 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 829

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • apathetic (mood, 0.80)
  • bored (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible motion (other, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • The image is static with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • two vertical
  • stacked text
  • checkered background

Dense Caption

The image consists of two identical vertical columns of pixelated text on a blue and white checkered background. Each column displays the text "I am so bored =[" in black, blocky, pixelated letters. The background features a pattern of alternating blue and white squares. The text is arranged in a stacked format with each word on a separate line. The overall style is low-resolution and pixelated, characteristic of early digital graphics. The text is identical in both columns, with no visible differences between them.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a blue and white checkered background reads "I am so bored =[" in two vertical

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 20070819125758372930721

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • bored
  • apathetic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bored emoticon
  • pixelated text icon
  • blue checkered background
  • I am so bored
  • buddy icon text
  • low resolution text
  • two text
  • bored emoticon icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected
  • quarantined description: Pixelated text on a blue and white checkered background reads "I am so bored =[" in two vertical columns.
  • quarantined wordwall: identical columns
  • quarantined wordwall: two vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: two vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: two column text

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • I
  • am
  • so
  • bored
  • =[

Wordwall

  • blue and white checkered background
  • pixelated text
  • I am so bored =[
  • two vertical
  • black blocky letters
  • stacked text layout
  • low-resolution graphics
  • identical
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:11 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070819125758372930721
Archive entry
20070819125758372930721.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#20070819125758372930721.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070819125758372930721.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016