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Pixelated orange background with pink lines and repeating text 'mbnmbnmb' at top and bottom, featuring four pink Pac-Man icons in corners

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Pixelated orange background with pink lines and repeating text 'mbnmbnmb' at top and bottom, featuring four pink Pac-Man icons in corners

Pixelated orange background with pink lines and repeating text 'mbnmbnmb' at top and bottom, featuring four pink Pac-Man icons in corners. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • mouth alternates between open and closed states

Animation Summary

  • The four Pac-Man icons in each quadrant alternate between open and closed mouth states across the animation frames.

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text at top
  • icons at bottom-right

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated orange background divided by thin pink grid lines into four equal quadrants. Each quadrant contains the text 'mbnmbnmb' in light orange pixelated font at the top edge. Four pink Pac-Man icons, each with a single open mouth, are positioned at the bottom-right corner of each quadrant. The icons alternate between open and closed mouth states across the four quadrants. The text 'mbnmbnmb' appears consistently in the same position on all visible frames. The overall style is retro pixel art with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated orange background with pink lines and repeating text 'mbnmbnmb' at top and bottom, featuring four pink Pac-Man icons in corners

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

  • orange Pac-Man
  • mbnmbnmb text animation
  • four quadrant pixel art
  • retro animation orange background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated orange background with pink grid lines and repeating text 'mbnmbnmb' at top and bottom, featuring four pink Pac-Man icons in grid corners.
  • quarantined wordwall: pink grid lines
  • quarantined objects: grid lines
  • quarantined retrieval: orange grid Pac-Man

Visible Text

  • mbnmbnmb

Wordwall

  • orange background
  • pink lines
  • four quadrants
  • text 'mbnmbnmb'
  • light orange font
  • pink Pac-Man icons
  • open mouth state
  • closed mouth state
  • retro pixel art
  • limited color palette

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802271330341218341065
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
321 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a4/a407f582830a7f38e8ddc35be8b5f27573ed0f3f4cae1bab4b6ee63fe3e99a05.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
a407f582830a7f38
SHA-256
a407f582830a7f38e8ddc35be8b5f27573ed0f3f4cae1bab4b6ee63fe3e99a05
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.089794

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated orange background with pink lines and repeating text 'mbnmbnmb' at top and bottom, featuring four pink Pac-Man icons in corners

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 13:17 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,861 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 755

Review tags

  • mouth closes (action, 0.80)
  • mouth opens (action, 0.80)
  • light orange (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • lines (object, 0.80)
  • mouth alternates between open and closed states (other, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • pac man icons (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • mouth opens
  • mouth closes

Animation

  • mouth alternates between open and closed states

Animation Summary

  • The four Pac-Man icons in each quadrant alternate between open and closed mouth states across the animation frames.

Colors

  • orange
  • pink
  • light orange

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text at top
  • icons at bottom-right

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated orange background divided by thin pink grid lines into four equal quadrants. Each quadrant contains the text 'mbnmbnmb' in light orange pixelated font at the top edge. Four pink Pac-Man icons, each with a single open mouth, are positioned at the bottom-right corner of each quadrant. The icons alternate between open and closed mouth states across the four quadrants. The text 'mbnmbnmb' appears consistently in the same position on all visible frames. The overall style is retro pixel art with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated orange background with pink lines and repeating text 'mbnmbnmb' at top and bottom, featuring four pink Pac-Man icons in corners

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange Pac-Man
  • mbnmbnmb text animation
  • four quadrant pixel art
  • retro animation orange background

Objects

  • lines

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated orange background with pink grid lines and repeating text 'mbnmbnmb' at top and bottom, featuring four pink Pac-Man icons in grid corners.
  • quarantined wordwall: pink grid lines
  • quarantined objects: grid lines
  • quarantined retrieval: orange grid Pac-Man

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro

Subjects

  • Pac-Man icons

Visible Text

  • mbnmbnmb

Wordwall

  • orange background
  • pink lines
  • four quadrants
  • text 'mbnmbnmb'
  • light orange font
  • pink Pac-Man icons
  • open mouth state
  • closed mouth state
  • retro pixel art
  • limited color palette
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:18 UTC
Run
56
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
200802271330341218341065
Archive entry
200802271330341218341065.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#200802271330341218341065.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802271330341218341065.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016