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Pixelated cyan text on black background with green plus signs, repeating 'what's up my homie's ?!?!?'.

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Pixelated cyan text on black background with green plus signs, repeating 'what's up my homie's ?!?!?'.

Pixelated cyan text on black background with green plus signs, repeating 'what's up my homie's ?!?!?'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two vertical of text
  • scattered plus signs

Dense Caption

Black background contains repeated cyan pixelated text reading "what's up my homie's ?!?!?" in two vertical columns. Green plus-shaped pixels are scattered around the text as decorative elements. The text appears identical across all visible frames with no discernible animation changes; each frame shows the same static arrangement of letters and symbols.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on black background with green plus signs, repeating 'what's up my homie's ?!?!?'.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090413065617746427446

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text black background green plus signs
  • what's up my homie's ?!?!? repeated
  • pixelated retro digital text
  • vertical cyan text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: two vertical columns of text
  • quarantined retrieval: vertical columns cyan text

Visible Text

  • what's up my homie's ?!?!?

Wordwall

  • cyan pixelated text
  • black background
  • green plus signs
  • repeated phrase
  • vertical

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090413065617746427446
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
668 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
b672a8016e613fd3
SHA-256
b672a8016e613fd306ef570c54dc1ead9f8eb55a3e1ba000d1a896361f3c6a78
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 03:23 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000503

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:30 UTC
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1136
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cyan text on black background with green plus signs, repeating 'what's up my homie's ?!?!?'.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 06:33 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,558 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 598

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • energetic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • green

Composition

  • two vertical of text
  • scattered plus signs

Dense Caption

Black background contains repeated cyan pixelated text reading "what's up my homie's ?!?!?" in two vertical columns. Green plus-shaped pixels are scattered around the text as decorative elements. The text appears identical across all visible frames with no discernible animation changes; each frame shows the same static arrangement of letters and symbols.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text on black background with green plus signs, repeating 'what's up my homie's ?!?!?'.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090413065617746427446

Mood

  • playful
  • energetic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text black background green plus signs
  • what's up my homie's ?!?!? repeated
  • pixelated retro digital text
  • vertical cyan text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: two vertical columns of text
  • quarantined retrieval: vertical columns cyan text

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • what's up my homie's ?!?!?

Wordwall

  • cyan pixelated text
  • black background
  • green plus signs
  • repeated phrase
  • 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
20090413065617746427446
Archive entry
20090413065617746427446.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#20090413065617746427446.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090413065617746427446.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016