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Four identical black square with yellow borders display white pixelated text "still chasing you" and "xxxxx" with a yellow Pac-Man icon in the bottom-right corner of each

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Four identical black square with yellow borders display white pixelated text "still chasing you" and "xxxxx" with a yellow Pac-Man icon in the bottom-right corner of each

Four identical black square with yellow borders display white pixelated text "still chasing you" and "xxxxx" with a yellow Pac-Man icon in the bottom-right corner of each. Animate…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • single border

Dense Caption

Four identical black square panels with yellow borders display white pixelated text "still chasing you" in three lines and "xxxxx" in a single line below it. Each panel contains a yellow Pac-Man icon in the bottom-right corner. The text uses a blocky, retro pixel font. The background is solid black. The panels are arranged in a 2x2 grid. The yellow border is a single-pixel line. The Pac-Man icon is a classic yellow shape with a mouth open to the right. The text "still chasing you" is centered horizontally. The text "xxxxx" is centered horizontally below the main text. The panels are identical in all visual aspects.

Description

Four identical black square with yellow borders display white pixelated text "still chasing you" and "xxxxx" with a yellow Pac-Man icon in the bottom-right corner of each

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200812181330421507220745
  • 20081218133048524344828

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • still chasing you pac-man icon
  • pixel art buddy icon
  • yellow border black background
  • pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • quarantined description: Four identical black square panels with yellow borders display white pixelated text "still chasing you" and "xxxxx" with a yellow Pac-Man icon in the bottom-right corner of each panel.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid pixel art

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Visible Text

  • still chasing you
  • xxxxx

Wordwall

  • black background
  • yellow border
  • white pixelated text
  • still chasing you
  • xxxxx
  • Pac-Man icon
  • blocky font
  • centered text
  • yellow mouth open

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812181330421507220745
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081218133048524344828
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
367 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ab/ab190e718528bf1233a857e89137d839558a9ea9daa206960105309b2fdd9f5c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
ab190e718528bf12
SHA-256
ab190e718528bf1233a857e89137d839558a9ea9daa206960105309b2fdd9f5c
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
0.082913

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.917721onnx/unsafe0.082913onnx/nsfw0.047437onnx/nsfl0.035476
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Four identical black square with yellow borders display white pixelated text "still chasing you" and "xxxxx" with a yellow Pac-Man icon in the bottom-right corner of each

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 14:13 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,080 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,156, response 856

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • pac man icon (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • yellow
  • white

Composition

  • centered text
  • single border

Dense Caption

Four identical black square panels with yellow borders display white pixelated text "still chasing you" in three lines and "xxxxx" in a single line below it. Each panel contains a yellow Pac-Man icon in the bottom-right corner. The text uses a blocky, retro pixel font. The background is solid black. The panels are arranged in a 2x2 grid. The yellow border is a single-pixel line. The Pac-Man icon is a classic yellow shape with a mouth open to the right. The text "still chasing you" is centered horizontally. The text "xxxxx" is centered horizontally below the main text. The panels are identical in all visual aspects.

Description

Four identical black square with yellow borders display white pixelated text "still chasing you" and "xxxxx" with a yellow Pac-Man icon in the bottom-right corner of each

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200812181330421507220745
  • 20081218133048524344828

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • still chasing you pac-man icon
  • pixel art buddy icon
  • yellow border black background
  • pixel art

Objects

  • Pac-Man icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • quarantined description: Four identical black square panels with yellow borders display white pixelated text "still chasing you" and "xxxxx" with a yellow Pac-Man icon in the bottom-right corner of each panel.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid pixel art

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro
  • blocky

Subjects

  • Pac-Man icon

Visible Text

  • still chasing you
  • xxxxx

Wordwall

  • black background
  • yellow border
  • white pixelated text
  • still chasing you
  • xxxxx
  • Pac-Man icon
  • blocky font
  • centered text
  • yellow mouth open
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Full source records (2)

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
200812181330421507220745
Archive entry
200812181330421507220745.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#200812181330421507220745.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812181330421507220745.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20081218133048524344828
Archive entry
20081218133048524344828.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#20081218133048524344828.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081218133048524344828.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016