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Pixelated text on a gradient background with repeated phrases and punctuation variations.

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Pixelated text on a gradient background with repeated phrases and punctuation variations.

Pixelated text on a gradient background with repeated phrases and punctuation variations. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • identical

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel contains pixelated black text on a green-to-cyan gradient background. The top line reads "I NEED YOU" twice, followed by "SAM!!!!!!!!!!" (with ten exclamation marks), then "LOL JJ!!" (with two exclamation marks). All panels show the same content with no visible differences between them.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a gradient background with repeated phrases and punctuation variations.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802061838571429089563
  • 20080206183923486351266
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text green cyan gradient
  • I NEED YOU SAM LOL JJ exclamation marks
  • identical
  • ten exclamation marks after SAM

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; all four observations show identical content.
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid of identical panels
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid identical panels

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection identity and era but no pixel evidence supports these claims.

Visible Text

  • I NEED YOU I NEED YOU
  • SAM!!!!!!!!!!
  • LOL JJ!!

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • green-to-cyan gradient background
  • I NEED YOU repeated twice
  • SAM followed by ten exclamation marks
  • LOL JJ followed by two exclamation marks

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802061838571429089563
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080206183923486351266
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b0/b0ed6a654c878caa98f1c6193a7eb7ca02df47e63fac57b8198d6ea279ff7b98.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC
Archive ID
b0ed6a654c878caa
SHA-256
b0ed6a654c878caa98f1c6193a7eb7ca02df47e63fac57b8198d6ea279ff7b98
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 15:27 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000762

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.000762falseself-harm0.000457falseself-harm/intent0.000220falseharassment0.000068falseviolence0.000014falsesexual/minors0.000007falseviolence/graphic0.000005falseharassment/threatening0.000004falseillicit0.000004falsehate0.000003falseself-harm/instructions0.000002falseillicit/violent0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.283918

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.805302onnx/unsafe0.283918onnx/nsfw0.245770onnx/nsfl0.038148
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated text on a gradient background with repeated phrases and punctuation variations.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 17:57 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,041 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,151, response 685

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • urgent (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • cyan

Composition

  • identical

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel contains pixelated black text on a green-to-cyan gradient background. The top line reads "I NEED YOU" twice, followed by "SAM!!!!!!!!!!" (with ten exclamation marks), then "LOL JJ!!" (with two exclamation marks). All panels show the same content with no visible differences between them.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a gradient background with repeated phrases and punctuation variations.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802061838571429089563
  • 20080206183923486351266
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Mood

  • urgent
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text green cyan gradient
  • I NEED YOU SAM LOL JJ exclamation marks
  • identical
  • ten exclamation marks after SAM

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; all four observations show identical content.
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid of identical panels
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid identical panels

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection identity and era but no pixel evidence supports these claims.

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • I NEED YOU I NEED YOU
  • SAM!!!!!!!!!!
  • LOL JJ!!

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • green-to-cyan gradient background
  • I NEED YOU repeated twice
  • SAM followed by ten exclamation marks
  • LOL JJ followed by two exclamation marks
Raw JSON
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Source semantic tags (4)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
Full source records (2)

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
200802061838571429089563
Archive entry
200802061838571429089563.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 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#200802061838571429089563.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802061838571429089563.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20080206183923486351266
Archive entry
20080206183923486351266.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 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#20080206183923486351266.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080206183923486351266.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016