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Pixelated image with pastel plaid background and black text reading "showty =]" in bottom-right corner.

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Pixelated image with pastel plaid background and black text reading "showty =]" in bottom-right corner.

Pixelated image with pastel plaid background and black text reading "showty =]" in bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • plaid background
  • text in lower right corner

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated composition featuring vertical stripes of light green, pale yellow, and soft blue forming a plaid pattern across the entire background. In the lower right quadrant, there is solid black text rendered in a blocky, digital font spelling "showty" on the first line followed by "]=" on the second line. The overall resolution appears low with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated image with pastel plaid background and black text reading "showty =]" in bottom-right corner.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710051925251691497799

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • showty =] pixel art
  • plaid background text
  • pastel stripes emoticon
  • low resolution showty icon

Visible Text

  • showty =]

Wordwall

  • pastel plaid
  • light green stripes
  • pale yellow stripes
  • soft blue stripes
  • pixelated text
  • black text
  • "showty" text
  • =] emoticon
  • lower right corner

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710051925251691497799
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/aa/aaf2c21fa0c6b481c31387b0ccbdce72fda9fba276c3574b65a6b94a0d8fbb72.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC
Archive ID
aaf2c21fa0c6b481
SHA-256
aaf2c21fa0c6b481c31387b0ccbdce72fda9fba276c3574b65a6b94a0d8fbb72
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:24 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095758

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.907451onnx/unsafe0.095758onnx/nsfw0.051554onnx/nsfl0.044203
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated image with pastel plaid background and black text reading "showty =]" in bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 07:35 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,434 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 638

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light green (color, 0.80)
  • pale yellow (color, 0.80)
  • soft blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • digital (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • light green
  • pale yellow
  • soft blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • plaid background
  • text in lower right corner

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated composition featuring vertical stripes of light green, pale yellow, and soft blue forming a plaid pattern across the entire background. In the lower right quadrant, there is solid black text rendered in a blocky, digital font spelling "showty" on the first line followed by "]=" on the second line. The overall resolution appears low with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated image with pastel plaid background and black text reading "showty =]" in bottom-right corner.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710051925251691497799

Mood

  • playful
  • casual

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • showty =] pixel art
  • plaid background text
  • pastel stripes emoticon
  • low resolution showty icon

Style

  • pixel art
  • digital
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • showty =]

Wordwall

  • pastel plaid
  • light green stripes
  • pale yellow stripes
  • soft blue stripes
  • pixelated text
  • black text
  • "showty" text
  • =] emoticon
  • lower right corner
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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
200710051925251691497799
Archive entry
200710051925251691497799.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 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#200710051925251691497799.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710051925251691497799.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016