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Black-and-white pixelated image with 'read this' text above a circular object containing indistinct symbols.

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Black-and-white pixelated image with 'read this' text above a circular object containing indistinct symbols.

Black-and-white pixelated image with 'read this' text above a circular object containing indistinct symbols. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top text, bottom oval
  • central composition
  • abstract background

Dense Caption

The image is a static, low-resolution grayscale composition. At the top, white blocky pixels spell 'read this' against a black rectangular background. Below, a large oval shape contains faint, blurry gray symbols on a light gray field; these symbols are too pixelated to identify as specific characters or letters. The surrounding area features abstract dark and light gray gradients with visible pixelation throughout the entire frame.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image with 'read this' text above a circular object containing indistinct symbols.

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
  • 20090210165108689953952

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • read this oval symbols pixelated
  • grayscale text oval faint symbols

Objects

  • text block

Visible Text

  • read this

Wordwall

  • black-and-white
  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • blocky text
  • 'read this'
  • oval shape
  • faint symbols
  • abstract background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090210165108689953952
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a9/a9f314bbf8ab72cf090dfb82bf10bed8d18be4051d16b4a16580c992d6f7c8d4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC
Archive ID
a9f314bbf8ab72cf
SHA-256
a9f314bbf8ab72cf090dfb82bf10bed8d18be4051d16b4a16580c992d6f7c8d4
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
0.073121

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.926879onnx/unsafe0.073121onnx/nsfw0.039279onnx/nsfl0.033843
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Black-and-white pixelated image with 'read this' text above a circular object containing indistinct symbols.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 22:26 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,948 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 595

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • ambiguous (mood, 0.80)
  • cryptic (mood, 0.80)
  • oval symbol field (object, 0.80)
  • text block (object, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • oval object with symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • top text, bottom oval
  • central composition
  • abstract background

Dense Caption

The image is a static, low-resolution grayscale composition. At the top, white blocky pixels spell 'read this' against a black rectangular background. Below, a large oval shape contains faint, blurry gray symbols on a light gray field; these symbols are too pixelated to identify as specific characters or letters. The surrounding area features abstract dark and light gray gradients with visible pixelation throughout the entire frame.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image with 'read this' text above a circular object containing indistinct symbols.

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
  • 20090210165108689953952

Mood

  • ambiguous
  • cryptic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • read this oval symbols pixelated
  • grayscale text oval faint symbols

Objects

  • text block
  • oval symbol field

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • text
  • oval object with symbols

Visible Text

  • read this

Wordwall

  • black-and-white
  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • blocky text
  • 'read this'
  • oval shape
  • faint symbols
  • abstract background
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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
20090210165108689953952
Archive entry
20090210165108689953952.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 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#20090210165108689953952.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090210165108689953952.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016