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Pixelated text on a blue-green checkered background with two identical vertical of names and equals signs

Pixelated text on a blue-green checkered background with two identical vertical of names and equals signs. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Composition

  • two identical vertical
  • checkerboard background
  • text

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated digital graphic with a repeating pattern of black text on a green-and-blue checkerboard background. Two identical vertical columns display the sequence: 'kelsey', 'amanda', 'cassidy', '=', 'bffs' repeated twice. The text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early internet graphics. Each character is formed from distinct pixels with no anti-aliasing or smoothing. The green and blue squares alternate in uniform 8x8 pixel blocks across the entire background.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a blue-green checkered background with two identical vertical of names and equals signs

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 20090416062551549927412

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • kelsey amanda cassidy bffs
  • green blue checkerboard text
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • two identical vertical

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated text on a blue-green checkered background with two identical vertical columns of names and equals signs.
  • quarantined wordwall: two identical vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: text arranged in rows
  • quarantined composition: two identical vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: two identical vertical columns

Visible Text

  • kelsey
  • amanda
  • cassidy
  • =
  • bffs

Wordwall

  • green-and-blue checkerboard
  • pixelated black text
  • kelsey amanda cassidy bffs
  • two identical vertical

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090416062551549927412
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

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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/af/afe96596a4d382093a4c202a13ea2adf7908b8d0273cf6b2717d25ec33d20ee8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
afe96596a4d38209
SHA-256
afe96596a4d382093a4c202a13ea2adf7908b8d0273cf6b2717d25ec33d20ee8
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 06:56 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000805

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:38 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.135013

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text on a blue-green checkered background with two identical vertical of names and equals signs

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 06:51 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,076 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 670

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • static image (other, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Colors

  • green
  • blue
  • black

Composition

  • two identical vertical
  • checkerboard background
  • text

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated digital graphic with a repeating pattern of black text on a green-and-blue checkerboard background. Two identical vertical columns display the sequence: 'kelsey', 'amanda', 'cassidy', '=', 'bffs' repeated twice. The text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early internet graphics. Each character is formed from distinct pixels with no anti-aliasing or smoothing. The green and blue squares alternate in uniform 8x8 pixel blocks across the entire background.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a blue-green checkered background with two identical vertical of names and equals signs

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 20090416062551549927412

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • kelsey amanda cassidy bffs
  • green blue checkerboard text
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • two identical vertical

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated text on a blue-green checkered background with two identical vertical columns of names and equals signs.
  • quarantined wordwall: two identical vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: text arranged in rows
  • quarantined composition: two identical vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: two identical vertical columns

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • kelsey
  • amanda
  • cassidy
  • =
  • bffs

Wordwall

  • green-and-blue checkerboard
  • pixelated black text
  • kelsey amanda cassidy bffs
  • two identical vertical
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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
20090416062551549927412
Archive entry
20090416062551549927412.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#20090416062551549927412.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090416062551549927412.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016