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Blue and green checkered background with repeated white pixelated text reading "im always just plane BORED!!!" in four identical sections.

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Blue and green checkered background with repeated white pixelated text reading "im always just plane BORED!!!" in four identical sections.

Blue and green checkered background with repeated white pixelated text reading "im always just plane BORED!!!" in four identical sections. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes across observations

Composition

  • checkered
  • four identical sections
  • text arranged in three lines per section

Dense Caption

Blue and green checkered background with four identical sections of white pixelated text reading "im always just plane BORED!!!"; each section contains three lines of text with "im always" on the first line, "just plane" on the second line, and "BORED!!!" on the third line; the text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics; the checkered pattern consists of alternating blue and green squares; the text appears to be static with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Blue and green checkered background with repeated white pixelated text reading "im always just plane BORED!!!" in four identical sections.

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 Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue green checkered background
  • white pixelated text
  • im always just plane BORED!!!
  • four identical sections
  • blocky low-resolution style
  • alternating blue and green squares
  • repetitive text
  • buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no visible animation changes across observations

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • im always
  • just plane
  • BORED!!!

Wordwall

  • blue and green checkered background
  • white pixelated text
  • im always
  • just plane
  • BORED!!!
  • four identical sections
  • blocky low-resolution style
  • alternating blue and green squares

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070725154608703103620
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ac/acf94655fe3d87faf49542dba76eb1506d2a51936935cdebbe84eff4c2af4ea7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 UTC
Archive ID
acf94655fe3d87fa
SHA-256
acf94655fe3d87faf49542dba76eb1506d2a51936935cdebbe84eff4c2af4ea7
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 29, 2026 at 09:14 UTC
Run
15963
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000213

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 03:27 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000600

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagself-harm0.000600falseviolence0.000558falseself-harm/intent0.000251falsesexual0.000093falseviolence/graphic0.000011falseself-harm/instructions0.000005falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
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
0.275274

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue and green checkered background with repeated white pixelated text reading "im always just plane BORED!!!" in four identical sections.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 14:20 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,416 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,102, response 816

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • bored (mood, 0.80)
  • repetitive (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes across observations

Colors

  • blue
  • green
  • white

Composition

  • checkered
  • four identical sections
  • text arranged in three lines per section

Dense Caption

Blue and green checkered background with four identical sections of white pixelated text reading "im always just plane BORED!!!"; each section contains three lines of text with "im always" on the first line, "just plane" on the second line, and "BORED!!!" on the third line; the text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics; the checkered pattern consists of alternating blue and green squares; the text appears to be static with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Blue and green checkered background with repeated white pixelated text reading "im always just plane BORED!!!" in four identical sections.

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 Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • bored
  • repetitive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • white pixelated text
  • im always just plane BORED!!!
  • four identical sections
  • blocky low-resolution style
  • alternating blue and green squares
  • repetitive text
  • buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no visible animation changes across observations

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • im always
  • just plane
  • BORED!!!

Wordwall

  • blue and green checkered background
  • white pixelated text
  • im always
  • just plane
  • BORED!!!
  • four identical sections
  • blocky low-resolution style
  • alternating blue and green squares
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:14 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070725154608703103620
Archive entry
20070725154608703103620.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 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#20070725154608703103620.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070725154608703103620.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016