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Cyan text on black background reads "I love ham" with slight pixel distortion across four

Cyan text on black background reads "I love ham" with slight pixel distortion across four. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Source terms

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes across four

Animation Summary

  • No visible motion changes across four ; all show identical cyan text "I love ham" on black background with consistent pixel distortion

Composition

  • four identical
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Four square panels arranged in a 2x2 grid display cyan-colored text reading "I love ham" against solid black backgrounds. Each panel shows identical text rendered with consistent pixel-level distortion, creating a slightly blurred or low-resolution appearance. The cyan text has uniform thickness and spacing across all four panels. All panels share the same border style: a thin cyan outline surrounding each square frame.

Description

  • Cyan text on black background reads "I love ham" with slight pixel distortion across four

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20070913161728744707208
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20070913161728744707208

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan I love ham
  • black background text icon
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • cyan text

Preprocessing Notes

  • No upscaling or dimension changes observed; all panels show consistent pixel rendering.
  • quarantined description: Cyan text on black background reads "I love ham" with slight pixel distortion across four panels.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible motion changes across four panels; all show identical cyan text "I love ham" on black background with consistent pixel distortion.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined animation: static image with no visible motion changes across four panels
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid cyan text

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

Visible Text

  • I love ham

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black background
  • I love ham
  • pixel distortion
  • solid black
  • thin cyan border

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070913161728744707208
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a8/a8d42368efaaa5275d72859848ca5dfcc64ccaca5d8ae66c39ff0a6ed9d24d34.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 UTC
Archive ID
a8d42368efaaa527
SHA-256
a8d42368efaaa5275d72859848ca5dfcc64ccaca5d8ae66c39ff0a6ed9d24d34
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:23 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.130008

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Cyan text on black background reads "I love ham" with slight pixel distortion across four

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 01:46 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,320 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,104, response 742

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes across four

Animation Summary

  • No visible motion changes across four ; all show identical cyan text "I love ham" on black background with consistent pixel distortion

Colors

  • cyan
  • black

Composition

  • four identical
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Four square panels arranged in a 2x2 grid display cyan-colored text reading "I love ham" against solid black backgrounds. Each panel shows identical text rendered with consistent pixel-level distortion, creating a slightly blurred or low-resolution appearance. The cyan text has uniform thickness and spacing across all four panels. All panels share the same border style: a thin cyan outline surrounding each square frame.

Description

  • Cyan text on black background reads "I love ham" with slight pixel distortion across four

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20070913161728744707208
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20070913161728744707208

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan I love ham
  • black background text icon
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • cyan text

Preprocessing Notes

  • No upscaling or dimension changes observed; all panels show consistent pixel rendering.
  • quarantined description: Cyan text on black background reads "I love ham" with slight pixel distortion across four panels.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible motion changes across four panels; all show identical cyan text "I love ham" on black background with consistent pixel distortion.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined animation: static image with no visible motion changes across four panels
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid cyan text

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • I love ham

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black background
  • I love ham
  • pixel distortion
  • solid black
  • thin cyan border
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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
20070913161728744707208
Archive entry
20070913161728744707208.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 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#20070913161728744707208.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070913161728744707208.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016