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Four quadrants display identical text on red, purple, blue, and purple backgrounds with pixelated black lettering.

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Four quadrants display identical text on red, purple, blue, and purple backgrounds with pixelated black lettering.

Four quadrants display identical text on red, purple, blue, and purple backgrounds with pixelated black lettering. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Source terms

Composition

  • quadrants
  • horizontal centering

Dense Caption

The image consists of four quadrants arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left quadrant: red background with black pixelated text reading "ThomasJ8 rocks your son of". Top-right quadrant: purple background with identical black pixelated text. Bottom-left quadrant: blue background with identical black pixelated text. Bottom-right quadrant: purple background with identical black pixelated text. All text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. The text is horizontally centered in each quadrant. The background colors are solid and uniform within each quadrant. The text appears to be the same in all four quadrants, with no visible differences between them.

Description

  • Four quadrants display identical text on red, purple, blue, and purple backgrounds with pixelated black lettering.

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

  • thomasj8 rocks your son of
  • pixelated text four quadrants
  • red purple blue background
  • blocky font low resolution

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • ThomasJ8
  • rocks
  • your
  • son
  • of

Wordwall

  • four quadrants
  • red background
  • purple background
  • blue background
  • black pixelated text
  • identical text
  • horizontal centering
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution graphics

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20101106061828252843351
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a3/a3ebaf4fc72a3e44cce3b6ffdd84d89bec8c00bc09c56f4dbf8e95ba343c9677.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC
Archive ID
a3ebaf4fc72a3e44
SHA-256
a3ebaf4fc72a3e44cce3b6ffdd84d89bec8c00bc09c56f4dbf8e95ba343c9677
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 28, 2026 at 20:57 UTC
Run
15957
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.021157

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 3, 2026 at 17:30 UTC
Run
1262
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:20 UTC
Run
1135
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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

Four quadrants display identical text on red, purple, blue, and purple backgrounds with pixelated black lettering.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 21:06 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,299 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,104, response 700

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • purple
  • blue

Composition

  • quadrants
  • horizontal centering

Dense Caption

The image consists of four quadrants arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left quadrant: red background with black pixelated text reading "ThomasJ8 rocks your son of". Top-right quadrant: purple background with identical black pixelated text. Bottom-left quadrant: blue background with identical black pixelated text. Bottom-right quadrant: purple background with identical black pixelated text. All text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. The text is horizontally centered in each quadrant. The background colors are solid and uniform within each quadrant. The text appears to be the same in all four quadrants, with no visible differences between them.

Description

  • Four quadrants display identical text on red, purple, blue, and purple backgrounds with pixelated black lettering.

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

  • thomasj8 rocks your son of
  • pixelated text four quadrants
  • red purple blue background
  • blocky font low resolution

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixelated
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  • low-resolution

Visible Text

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  • rocks
  • your
  • son
  • of

Wordwall

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  • red background
  • purple background
  • blue background
  • black pixelated text
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 23:14 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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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
20101106061828252843351
Archive entry
20101106061828252843351.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#20101106061828252843351.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20101106061828252843351.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016