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A four- of pixelated text-based images with varying backgrounds and color schemes, each containing distinct phrases

A four- of pixelated text-based images with varying backgrounds and color schemes, each containing distinct phrases. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four distinct
  • varied background patterns

Dense Caption

The image is a 2x2 grid of pixelated panels. Top-left panel: white background with black speckles; black text reads "They r..", "always byalways luv", "my side". Top-right panel: light gray background with orange and blue speckles; black text reads "they will", "always byalways luv", "me". Bottom-left panel: black background with green and purple stars; white text reads "they r..", "my fiends". Bottom-right panel: dark diagonal striped background with multicolored musical notes; white text reads "yay!!❤️".

Description

  • A four- of pixelated text-based images with varying backgrounds and color schemes, each containing distinct phrases

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081230154000934081561

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • text-based pixel art
  • four text collage
  • yay heart musical notes stars
  • byalways luv side me fiends

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A four-panel grid of pixelated text-based images with varying backgrounds and color schemes, each containing distinct phrases.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four distinct panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel text collage
  • quarantined retrieval: text-based pixel art grid

Visible Text

  • They r..
  • always byalways luv
  • my side
  • they will
  • me
  • yay!!❤️
  • my fiends

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • white background with black speckles
  • light gray background with orange and blue speckles
  • black background with green and purple stars
  • dark diagonal striped background with multicolored musical notes
  • "They r.."
  • "always byalways luv"
  • "my side"
  • "they will"
  • "me"
  • "yay!!❤️"
  • "my fiends"
  • green star pixels
  • purple star pixels
  • multicolored musical note pixels

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081230154000934081561
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a8/a8eba1a6382a39aa1a18611d2f4070b4c1befb61fd32c75f82afb095aa83fc24.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
a8eba1a6382a39aa
SHA-256
a8eba1a6382a39aa1a18611d2f4070b4c1befb61fd32c75f82afb095aa83fc24
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
0.122827

OpenAI category scores

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A four- of pixelated text-based images with varying backgrounds and color schemes, each containing distinct phrases

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,724 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 797

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • musical notes (subject, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text phrases (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • black
  • gray
  • orange
  • blue
  • green
  • purple
  • multicolored

Composition

  • four distinct
  • varied background patterns

Dense Caption

The image is a 2x2 grid of pixelated panels. Top-left panel: white background with black speckles; black text reads "They r..", "always byalways luv", "my side". Top-right panel: light gray background with orange and blue speckles; black text reads "they will", "always byalways luv", "me". Bottom-left panel: black background with green and purple stars; white text reads "they r..", "my fiends". Bottom-right panel: dark diagonal striped background with multicolored musical notes; white text reads "yay!!❤️".

Description

  • A four- of pixelated text-based images with varying backgrounds and color schemes, each containing distinct phrases

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081230154000934081561

Mood

  • playful
  • affirmative

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • text-based pixel art
  • four text collage
  • yay heart musical notes stars
  • byalways luv side me fiends

Objects

  • stars
  • musical notes

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A four-panel grid of pixelated text-based images with varying backgrounds and color schemes, each containing distinct phrases.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four distinct panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel text collage
  • quarantined retrieval: text-based pixel art grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text phrases
  • stars
  • musical notes

Visible Text

  • They r..
  • always byalways luv
  • my side
  • they will
  • me
  • yay!!❤️
  • my fiends

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • white background with black speckles
  • light gray background with orange and blue speckles
  • black background with green and purple stars
  • dark diagonal striped background with multicolored musical notes
  • "They r.."
  • "always byalways luv"
  • "my side"
  • "they will"
  • "me"
  • "yay!!❤️"
  • "my fiends"
  • green star pixels
  • purple star pixels
  • multicolored musical note pixels
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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
20081230154000934081561
Archive entry
20081230154000934081561.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#20081230154000934081561.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081230154000934081561.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016