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Four identical square with rounded corners, each containing white pixelated text on a black background, bordered by a bright green glowing outline

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Four identical square with rounded corners, each containing white pixelated text on a black background, bordered by a bright green glowing outline

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Source terms

Composition

  • identical
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Four identical square panels with rounded corners arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel has a black background with white pixelated text reading "IM ME GOT A PROBLEM?". Each panel is bordered by a bright green glowing outline. The panels are identical in content and layout. The image is static with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

Four identical square with rounded corners, each containing white pixelated text on a black background, bordered by a bright green glowing outline

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four im me got a problem
  • green outline pixelated text
  • im me got a problem
  • identical im me got a problem

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical square panels with rounded corners, each containing white pixelated text on a black background, bordered by a bright green glowing outline.
  • quarantined wordwall: identical panels
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined wordwall: four panels
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: identical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: identical panels im me got a problem
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid im me got a problem
  • quarantined retrieval: four panels im me got a problem

Visible Text

  • IM ME GOT A PROBLEM?

Wordwall

  • four
  • rounded corners
  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • green glowing outline
  • identical
  • text: IM ME GOT A PROBLEM?
  • no animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080912180915330733447
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

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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/af/af9485e5c22aa719717e3678a4d94f7027ec1aa8540371cddf1899cb593b712a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
af9485e5c22aa719
SHA-256
af9485e5c22aa719717e3678a4d94f7027ec1aa8540371cddf1899cb593b712a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:26 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.067472

OpenAI category scores

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Four identical square with rounded corners, each containing white pixelated text on a black background, bordered by a bright green glowing outline

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 23:50 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,392 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 639

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • glowing outline (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • green

Composition

  • identical
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Four identical square panels with rounded corners arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel has a black background with white pixelated text reading "IM ME GOT A PROBLEM?". Each panel is bordered by a bright green glowing outline. The panels are identical in content and layout. The image is static with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

Four identical square with rounded corners, each containing white pixelated text on a black background, bordered by a bright green glowing outline

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four im me got a problem
  • green outline pixelated text
  • im me got a problem
  • identical im me got a problem

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical square panels with rounded corners, each containing white pixelated text on a black background, bordered by a bright green glowing outline.
  • quarantined wordwall: identical panels
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined wordwall: four panels
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: identical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: identical panels im me got a problem
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid im me got a problem
  • quarantined retrieval: four panels im me got a problem

Style

  • pixelated
  • glowing outline

Visible Text

  • IM ME GOT A PROBLEM?

Wordwall

  • four
  • rounded corners
  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • green glowing outline
  • identical
  • text: IM ME GOT A PROBLEM?
  • no animation
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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
20080912180915330733447
Archive entry
20080912180915330733447.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#20080912180915330733447.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080912180915330733447.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016