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Pixelated cyan text on black background with blue lines, displaying repeated phrases and abbreviations

Pixelated cyan text on black background with blue lines, displaying repeated phrases and abbreviations. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical
  • diamond overlay
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background overlaid with a repeating pattern of thin blue diagonal grid lines forming diamond shapes. Cyan pixelated text appears in four identical vertical columns: top to bottom reads "CB", "SB", "4ever", "n", "Always!!". The same text arrangement repeats across all visible sections, creating a mirrored effect. Text uses blocky 8-bit style font with slight horizontal distortion on some characters.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on black background with blue lines, displaying repeated phrases and abbreviations

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071108181256882951377

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text blue black background
  • 4ever n Always!! CB SB
  • pixelated 8-bit text
  • repeating diamond

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated cyan text on black background with blue grid lines, displaying repeated phrases and abbreviations.
  • quarantined wordwall: diamond-shaped grid
  • quarantined wordwall: repeating columns
  • quarantined wordwall: blue grid lines
  • quarantined composition: diamond grid overlay
  • quarantined composition: vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: repeating columns diamond grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated 8-bit text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: cyan text blue grid black background

Visible Text

  • CB
  • SB
  • 4ever
  • n
  • Always!!

Wordwall

  • cyan pixelated text
  • blue lines
  • black background
  • repeating
  • 4ever n Always!!
  • CB SB
  • diamond-shaped
  • blocky 8-bit font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071108181256882951377
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a4/a4f660bc281c41c5516682b4e0f59f77cea09ea2f8b90f4999f9735236e378ab.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC
Archive ID
a4f660bc281c41c5
SHA-256
a4f660bc281c41c5516682b4e0f59f77cea09ea2f8b90f4999f9735236e378ab
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
0.484939

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cyan text on black background with blue lines, displaying repeated phrases and abbreviations

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 16:21 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,264 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 656

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • digital (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • retro (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • blue
  • cyan

Composition

  • vertical
  • diamond overlay
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background overlaid with a repeating pattern of thin blue diagonal grid lines forming diamond shapes. Cyan pixelated text appears in four identical vertical columns: top to bottom reads "CB", "SB", "4ever", "n", "Always!!". The same text arrangement repeats across all visible sections, creating a mirrored effect. Text uses blocky 8-bit style font with slight horizontal distortion on some characters.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on black background with blue lines, displaying repeated phrases and abbreviations

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071108181256882951377

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • retro
  • digital

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text blue black background
  • 4ever n Always!! CB SB
  • pixelated 8-bit text
  • repeating diamond

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined composition: vertical columns
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  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated 8-bit text grid
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Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • repeating pattern
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • CB
  • SB
  • 4ever
  • n
  • Always!!

Wordwall

  • cyan pixelated text
  • blue lines
  • black background
  • repeating
  • 4ever n Always!!
  • CB SB
  • diamond-shaped
  • blocky 8-bit font
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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
20071108181256882951377
Archive entry
20071108181256882951377.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 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#20071108181256882951377.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071108181256882951377.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016