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Four- shows a person with changing hair color and background, each with bold text overlay

Four- shows a person with changing hair color and background, each with bold text overlay. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Actions

  • text overlay

Composition

  • four
  • text centered
  • person centered

Dense Caption

Top-left panel: person with long blonde hair, teal background, black text 'YOU' over chest. Top-right panel: person with short dark hair, white background, black text 'ME' over chest, holding silver chain. Bottom-left panel: person with short white hair, blue patterned background, black text 'WRITE' over chest. Bottom-right panel: person with messy light hair, brown patterned background, black text 'BAD' over chest. All panels use bold sans-serif text with black outlines. Pixelated rendering style.

Description

  • Four- shows a person with changing hair color and background, each with bold text overlay

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • you me write bad text
  • four text
  • pixelated text
  • humorous text
  • blonde dark white hair
  • teal white blue brown background
  • silver chain text
  • text YOU ME WRITE BAD

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four-panel grid shows a person with changing hair color and background, each panel with bold text overlay.
  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: silver chain text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: blonde dark white hair grid
  • quarantined retrieval: humorous text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid text

Visible Text

  • YOU
  • ME
  • WRITE
  • BAD

Wordwall

  • blonde hair
  • teal background
  • text YOU
  • dark hair
  • white background
  • text ME
  • silver chain
  • white hair
  • blue background
  • text WRITE
  • brown background
  • text BAD
  • pixelated
  • bold text
  • four

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200912171412081869227391
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b1/b1517a419dd2d1a42548755fd9404654cf90348188b1fbf623f472780d2e9aa2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
b1517a419dd2d1a4
SHA-256
b1517a419dd2d1a42548755fd9404654cf90348188b1fbf623f472780d2e9aa2
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 14:20 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.022752

OpenAI category scores

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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
0.218236

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Four- shows a person with changing hair color and background, each with bold text overlay

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 21:23 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,120 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 692

Review tags

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  • text overlay (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • silver chain (object, 0.80)
  • bold text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • text overlay

Colors

  • teal
  • white
  • blue
  • brown
  • black
  • silver
  • blonde
  • dark

Composition

  • four
  • text centered
  • person centered

Dense Caption

Top-left panel: person with long blonde hair, teal background, black text 'YOU' over chest. Top-right panel: person with short dark hair, white background, black text 'ME' over chest, holding silver chain. Bottom-left panel: person with short white hair, blue patterned background, black text 'WRITE' over chest. Bottom-right panel: person with messy light hair, brown patterned background, black text 'BAD' over chest. All panels use bold sans-serif text with black outlines. Pixelated rendering style.

Description

  • Four- shows a person with changing hair color and background, each with bold text overlay

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Mood

  • humorous
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • you me write bad text
  • four text
  • pixelated text
  • humorous text
  • blonde dark white hair
  • teal white blue brown background
  • silver chain text
  • text YOU ME WRITE BAD

Objects

  • silver chain

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: silver chain text grid
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  • quarantined retrieval: humorous text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid text

Style

  • pixelated
  • bold text

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • YOU
  • ME
  • WRITE
  • BAD

Wordwall

  • blonde hair
  • teal background
  • text YOU
  • dark hair
  • white background
  • text ME
  • silver chain
  • white hair
  • blue background
  • text WRITE
  • brown background
  • text BAD
  • pixelated
  • bold text
  • four
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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
200912171412081869227391
Archive entry
200912171412081869227391.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#200912171412081869227391.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200912171412081869227391.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016