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Red background with pink and white circles; black text "BE A WEIRDO" in four quadrants; white circle shifts position between frames.

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Red background with pink and white circles; black text "BE A WEIRDO" in four quadrants; white circle shifts position between frames.

Red background with pink and white circles; black text "BE A WEIRDO" in four quadrants; white circle shifts position between frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • white circle shifts position

Animation Summary

  • white circle shifts position between frames

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • scattered circles

Dense Caption

Red background with scattered pink and white circles; black text "BE A WEIRDO" in four quadrants; white circle shifts position between frames; circles vary in size; text is blocky, pixelated font; no other objects or subjects present; animation shows white circle moving from left to right across frames.

Description

  • Red background with pink and white circles; black text "BE A WEIRDO" in four quadrants; white circle shifts position between frames.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background pink white circles
  • be a weirdo text
  • white circle shifts
  • pixelated font

Visible Text

  • BE A WEIRDO

Wordwall

  • red background
  • pink circles
  • white circles
  • black text
  • BE A WEIRDO
  • pixelated font
  • white circle shifts
  • four quadrants

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708211433341724600834
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ad/ad56f389a9c29077637fe6168e602e873ce2a52d72fb65ba366c6ca8ffe3819c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
ad56f389a9c29077
SHA-256
ad56f389a9c29077637fe6168e602e873ce2a52d72fb65ba366c6ca8ffe3819c
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 30, 2026 at 21:42 UTC
Run
15966
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.009597

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 13:07 UTC
Run
1275
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:25 UTC
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1136
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Red background with pink and white circles; black text "BE A WEIRDO" in four quadrants; white circle shifts position between frames.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 03:29 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,362 ms
Tokens
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Review tags

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  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • blocky (style, 0.80)
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  • repetitive (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • white circle shifts

Animation

  • white circle shifts position

Animation Summary

  • white circle shifts position between frames

Colors

  • red
  • pink
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • scattered circles

Dense Caption

Red background with scattered pink and white circles; black text "BE A WEIRDO" in four quadrants; white circle shifts position between frames; circles vary in size; text is blocky, pixelated font; no other objects or subjects present; animation shows white circle moving from left to right across frames.

Description

  • Red background with pink and white circles; black text "BE A WEIRDO" in four quadrants; white circle shifts position between frames.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • quirky

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  • red background pink white circles
  • be a weirdo text
  • white circle shifts
  • pixelated font

Objects

  • circles

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • repetitive

Visible Text

  • BE A WEIRDO

Wordwall

  • red background
  • pink circles
  • white circles
  • black text
  • BE A WEIRDO
  • pixelated font
  • white circle shifts
  • four quadrants
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
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Run
52
Version
v5
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Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200708211433341724600834
Archive entry
200708211433341724600834.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#200708211433341724600834.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708211433341724600834.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016