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Yellow pixelated text 'old school' on black background with yellow border and small yellow pixelated shape in bottom-right corner.

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Yellow pixelated text 'old school' on black background with yellow border and small yellow pixelated shape in bottom-right corner.

Yellow pixelated text 'old school' on black background with yellow border and small yellow pixelated shape in bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four are identical

Composition

  • four identical
  • text centered
  • small shape bottom-right

Dense Caption

Four identical square panels arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with a black background, yellow border, and yellow pixelated text reading 'old school' in two lines. The text uses a blocky, retro font with visible pixelation. Each panel contains a small yellow pixelated shape resembling a stylized 'e' or partial circle in the bottom-right corner. The panels are visually identical with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Yellow pixelated text 'old school' on black background with yellow border and small yellow pixelated shape in bottom-right corner.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow pixelated old school
  • black background yellow border
  • pixel art
  • small yellow shape bottom right

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation changes; all four panels are identical.
  • quarantined wordwall: identical panels
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined wordwall: four panels
  • quarantined composition: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid pixel art

Visible Text

  • old school

Wordwall

  • yellow pixelated text
  • black background
  • yellow border
  • four
  • retro font
  • small yellow shape
  • identical
  • blocky text
  • pixelated 'old school'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807181946141897152932
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b0/b04a969f8f75f208fba6a56fc2cb3ad130bb73751354c74f957bf8809b600108.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
b04a969f8f75f208
SHA-256
b04a969f8f75f208fba6a56fc2cb3ad130bb73751354c74f957bf8809b600108
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 07:36 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000501

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Yellow pixelated text 'old school' on black background with yellow border and small yellow pixelated shape in bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 13:07 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,591 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 658

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four are identical

Colors

  • yellow
  • black

Composition

  • four identical
  • text centered
  • small shape bottom-right

Dense Caption

Four identical square panels arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with a black background, yellow border, and yellow pixelated text reading 'old school' in two lines. The text uses a blocky, retro font with visible pixelation. Each panel contains a small yellow pixelated shape resembling a stylized 'e' or partial circle in the bottom-right corner. The panels are visually identical with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Yellow pixelated text 'old school' on black background with yellow border and small yellow pixelated shape in bottom-right corner.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow pixelated old school
  • black background yellow border
  • pixel art
  • small yellow shape bottom right

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation changes; all four panels are identical.
  • quarantined wordwall: identical panels
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined wordwall: four panels
  • quarantined composition: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid pixel art

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro
  • blocky

Visible Text

  • old school

Wordwall

  • yellow pixelated text
  • black background
  • yellow border
  • four
  • retro font
  • small yellow shape
  • identical
  • blocky text
  • pixelated 'old school'
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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
200807181946141897152932
Archive entry
200807181946141897152932.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#200807181946141897152932.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807181946141897152932.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016