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Pixelated text on a yellow-green gradient background with repeated phrases and partial words.

Pixelated text on a yellow-green gradient background with repeated phrases and partial words. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four identical
  • centered text in each

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel contains pixelated dark red text on a yellow-to-green gradient background. The top line of each panel reads "estal bears" (partially visible). Below this, the lines read: "rock", "ass!", "u.e tigers", and "suck ass!". All panels are visually identical with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a yellow-green gradient background with repeated phrases and partial words.

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
  • 20071023170439780032691

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • estal bears rock ass u.e tigers suck ass
  • yellow green gradient text
  • pixelated four
  • rock ass u.e tigers suck ass

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; all four observations show identical content
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: centered text in each panel
  • quarantined composition: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated four panel grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but no pixel evidence supports these claims.

Visible Text

  • estal bears
  • rock
  • ass!
  • u.e tigers
  • suck ass!

Wordwall

  • yellow-green gradient background
  • pixelated dark red text
  • four identical
  • "estal bears" top line
  • "rock" second line
  • "ass!" third line
  • "u.e tigers" fourth line
  • "suck ass!" fifth line

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071023170439780032691
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ac/ac90a12d37493b41575dbd878b0ea4c55a641a9a2b728586a33ac364caeb55f2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC
Archive ID
ac90a12d37493b41
SHA-256
ac90a12d37493b41575dbd878b0ea4c55a641a9a2b728586a33ac364caeb55f2
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
0.148418

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.876652onnx/unsafe0.148418onnx/nsfw0.107078onnx/nsfl0.041340
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated text on a yellow-green gradient background with repeated phrases and partial words.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 12:19 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,520 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 718

Review tags

  • dark red (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • aggressive (mood, 0.80)
  • rebellious (mood, 0.80)
  • graffiti style (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • green
  • dark red

Composition

  • four identical
  • centered text in each

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel contains pixelated dark red text on a yellow-to-green gradient background. The top line of each panel reads "estal bears" (partially visible). Below this, the lines read: "rock", "ass!", "u.e tigers", and "suck ass!". All panels are visually identical with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a yellow-green gradient background with repeated phrases and partial words.

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
  • 20071023170439780032691

Mood

  • aggressive
  • rebellious

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • estal bears rock ass u.e tigers suck ass
  • yellow green gradient text
  • pixelated four
  • rock ass u.e tigers suck ass

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; all four observations show identical content
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: centered text in each panel
  • quarantined composition: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated four panel grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but no pixel evidence supports these claims.

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • graffiti-style

Visible Text

  • estal bears
  • rock
  • ass!
  • u.e tigers
  • suck ass!

Wordwall

  • yellow-green gradient background
  • pixelated dark red text
  • four identical
  • "estal bears" top line
  • "rock" second line
  • "ass!" third line
  • "u.e tigers" fourth line
  • "suck ass!" fifth line
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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20071023170439780032691
Archive entry
20071023170439780032691.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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#20071023170439780032691.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071023170439780032691.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016