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Pixelated blue background with vertical text repeating 'i am what i am' in light blue, arranged in two

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Pixelated blue background with vertical text repeating 'i am what i am' in light blue, arranged in two

Pixelated blue background with vertical text repeating 'i am what i am' in light blue, arranged in two. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • two
  • vertical text arrangement

Dense Caption

The image consists of a pixelated grid background composed of various shades of blue squares. Overlaid on this background is vertical text in light blue, repeating the phrase 'i am what i am' in two columns. Each column contains the phrase repeated seven times, with the text arranged vertically from top to bottom. The text is rendered in a pixelated font style consistent with early digital graphics. The background features a pattern of alternating dark and light blue squares, creating a checkered effect. The overall composition is symmetrical, with both columns mirroring each other in text arrangement and color scheme.

Description

  • Pixelated blue background with vertical text repeating 'i am what i am' in light blue, arranged in two

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

  • blue text icon
  • i am what i am pixel art
  • vertical text buddy icon
  • symmetrical blue text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated blue grid background with vertical text repeating 'i am what i am' in light blue, arranged in two columns.
  • quarantined wordwall: two columns
  • quarantined wordwall: blue grid background
  • quarantined composition: two columns
  • quarantined retrieval: blue grid text icon

Visible Text

  • i am what i am

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • light blue text
  • vertical text
  • i am what i am
  • two
  • pixelated font
  • checkered pattern
  • symmetrical layout
  • repeating phrase
  • shades of blue

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080630091641446251388
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a3/a399e19f89d65ff929a68c9f559351c80cb9c20d00173b46e3dbff70487a1b29.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
a399e19f89d65ff9
SHA-256
a399e19f89d65ff929a68c9f559351c80cb9c20d00173b46e3dbff70487a1b29
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:20 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.115343

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated blue background with vertical text repeating 'i am what i am' in light blue, arranged in two

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 09:38 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,606 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 679

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • light blue

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • two
  • vertical text arrangement

Dense Caption

The image consists of a pixelated grid background composed of various shades of blue squares. Overlaid on this background is vertical text in light blue, repeating the phrase 'i am what i am' in two columns. Each column contains the phrase repeated seven times, with the text arranged vertically from top to bottom. The text is rendered in a pixelated font style consistent with early digital graphics. The background features a pattern of alternating dark and light blue squares, creating a checkered effect. The overall composition is symmetrical, with both columns mirroring each other in text arrangement and color scheme.

Description

  • Pixelated blue background with vertical text repeating 'i am what i am' in light blue, arranged in two

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

  • blue text icon
  • i am what i am pixel art
  • vertical text buddy icon
  • symmetrical blue text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated blue grid background with vertical text repeating 'i am what i am' in light blue, arranged in two columns.
  • quarantined wordwall: two columns
  • quarantined wordwall: blue grid background
  • quarantined composition: two columns
  • quarantined retrieval: blue grid text icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital graphics
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • i am what i am

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • light blue text
  • vertical text
  • i am what i am
  • two
  • pixelated font
  • checkered pattern
  • symmetrical layout
  • repeating phrase
  • shades of blue
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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
20080630091641446251388
Archive entry
20080630091641446251388.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#20080630091641446251388.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080630091641446251388.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016