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Pixelated image with bold white text on black blocks over a blurred background of blue, red, and yellow tones.

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Pixelated image with bold white text on black blocks over a blurred background of blue, red, and yellow tones.

Pixelated image with bold white text on black blocks over a blurred background of blue, red, and yellow tones. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text blocks on left
  • grayscale figure on right
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated composition with large white text on black rectangular blocks. The text reads "M NOT" on the top left, "WEIRD IM" on the bottom left, and "iFfErEnt" on the right. The background features blurred sections of blue, red, and yellow tones. The right side of the image shows a grayscale, pixelated figure with indistinct features. The overall style is low-resolution and distorted, with visible pixelation across all elements.

Description

  • Pixelated image with bold white text on black blocks over a blurred background of blue, red, and yellow tones.

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 Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • buddy icons with text blocks
  • pixelated text on black
  • grayscale figure with text
  • low-resolution animation frame

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static frame from an animated sequence

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

  • M NOT
  • WEIRD IM
  • iFfErEnt

Wordwall

  • white text on black blocks
  • pixelated composition
  • blue background tones
  • red and yellow background tones
  • grayscale figure on right
  • text reads M NOT
  • text reads WEIRD IM
  • text reads iFfErEnt
  • low-resolution distortion
  • blurred background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20111222112026638424239
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a3/a3011ae2fccadb797a4224d1d7db271ee0844910d435a396c1f386ad0657303e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC
Archive ID
a3011ae2fccadb79
SHA-256
a3011ae2fccadb797a4224d1d7db271ee0844910d435a396c1f386ad0657303e
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
0.109161

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.917307onnx/unsafe0.109161onnx/nsfw0.060369onnx/nsfl0.048792
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Pixelated image with bold white text on black blocks over a blurred background of blue, red, and yellow tones.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 01:36 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,519 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 780

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • ambiguous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • distorted (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • grayscale figure (subject, 0.80)
  • text blocks (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • black
  • blue
  • red
  • yellow
  • gray

Composition

  • text blocks on left
  • grayscale figure on right
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated composition with large white text on black rectangular blocks. The text reads "M NOT" on the top left, "WEIRD IM" on the bottom left, and "iFfErEnt" on the right. The background features blurred sections of blue, red, and yellow tones. The right side of the image shows a grayscale, pixelated figure with indistinct features. The overall style is low-resolution and distorted, with visible pixelation across all elements.

Description

  • Pixelated image with bold white text on black blocks over a blurred background of blue, red, and yellow tones.

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 Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • ambiguous
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • buddy icons with text blocks
  • pixelated text on black
  • grayscale figure with text
  • low-resolution animation frame

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static frame from an animated sequence

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
  • low-resolution
  • distorted

Subjects

  • text blocks
  • grayscale figure

Visible Text

  • M NOT
  • WEIRD IM
  • iFfErEnt

Wordwall

  • white text on black blocks
  • pixelated composition
  • blue background tones
  • red and yellow background tones
  • grayscale figure on right
  • text reads M NOT
  • text reads WEIRD IM
  • text reads iFfErEnt
  • low-resolution distortion
  • blurred background
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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
20111222112026638424239
Archive entry
20111222112026638424239.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 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#20111222112026638424239.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20111222112026638424239.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016