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Pixelated skull with green text 'I AM BETTER THAN U' on black and gray backgrounds.

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Pixelated skull with green text 'I AM BETTER THAN U' on black and gray backgrounds.

Pixelated skull with green text 'I AM BETTER THAN U' on black and gray backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four
  • central text overlay
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Four-panel grid shows a pixelated skull icon. Top-left: white skull on black background; top-right: gray skull on black background; bottom-left: dark gray skull on black background; bottom-right: empty light gray panel. Green text 'I AM BETTER THAN U' overlays each skull, with 'U' positioned below the jawline. All panels share identical pixel art style and text layout.

Description

  • Pixelated skull with green text 'I AM BETTER THAN U' on black and gray backgrounds.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081202151514863695314

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated skull green text I AM BETTER THAN U
  • four skull icon
  • black gray background pixel art
  • confrontational text skull

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid skull icon

Subjects

  • skull

Visible Text

  • I AM BETTER THAN U

Wordwall

  • pixelated skull
  • green text
  • 'I AM BETTER THAN U'
  • black background
  • gray backgrounds
  • four
  • text overlay
  • jagged edges

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081202151514863695314
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
882 bytes
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ac/ac837e0f0783bd15d901ff6f8b29da1b1076b497e16ae8295101aa0a6acdfe86.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC
Archive ID
ac837e0f0783bd15
SHA-256
ac837e0f0783bd15d901ff6f8b29da1b1076b497e16ae8295101aa0a6acdfe86
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:25 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082434

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.921015onnx/unsafe0.082434onnx/nsfw0.043936onnx/nsfl0.038497
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Pixelated skull with green text 'I AM BETTER THAN U' on black and gray backgrounds.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 11:53 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,783 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 642

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • aggressive (mood, 0.80)
  • confrontational (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • skull (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • white
  • gray
  • black
  • light gray

Composition

  • four
  • central text overlay
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Four-panel grid shows a pixelated skull icon. Top-left: white skull on black background; top-right: gray skull on black background; bottom-left: dark gray skull on black background; bottom-right: empty light gray panel. Green text 'I AM BETTER THAN U' overlays each skull, with 'U' positioned below the jawline. All panels share identical pixel art style and text layout.

Description

  • Pixelated skull with green text 'I AM BETTER THAN U' on black and gray backgrounds.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081202151514863695314

Mood

  • aggressive
  • confrontational

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated skull green text I AM BETTER THAN U
  • four skull icon
  • black gray background pixel art
  • confrontational text skull

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid skull icon

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • skull

Visible Text

  • I AM BETTER THAN U

Wordwall

  • pixelated skull
  • green text
  • 'I AM BETTER THAN U'
  • black background
  • gray backgrounds
  • four
  • text overlay
  • jagged edges
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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
20081202151514863695314
Archive entry
20081202151514863695314.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 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#20081202151514863695314.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081202151514863695314.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016