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Green background with repeated black text 'im watchin' and 'you' separated by white horizontal lines in a pattern

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Green background with repeated black text 'im watchin' and 'you' separated by white horizontal lines in a pattern

Green background with repeated black text 'im watchin' and 'you' separated by white horizontal lines in a pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeated
  • text alignment
  • consistent spacing

Dense Caption

Green background with white horizontal lines forming a grid. Black text 'im watchin' appears in the top row of each grid cell, with 'you' directly below it. The text is repeated across three columns and two rows. The text 'im watchin' is partially obscured by pixelation, with the 'g' in 'watchin' missing. The text 'you' is fully visible in each cell. The grid structure is consistent across all visible cells.

Description

  • Green background with repeated black text 'im watchin' and 'you' separated by white horizontal lines in a pattern

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

  • green text
  • im watchin you
  • pixelated text
  • repeated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Green background with repeated black text 'im watchin' and 'you' separated by white horizontal lines in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: two rows
  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: repeated grid
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: green grid text

Uncertain Text

  • im watchin

Visible Text

  • im watchin
  • you

Wordwall

  • green background
  • white horizontal lines
  • black text
  • im watchin
  • you
  • pattern
  • repeated text
  • pixelated text
  • three
  • two

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807082350261847390483
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b6/b69809ee29e1d791cfd9be7d3e1e51d5fda1da9f18be2d6397cbdd55ccfde997.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Archive ID
b69809ee29e1d791
SHA-256
b69809ee29e1d791cfd9be7d3e1e51d5fda1da9f18be2d6397cbdd55ccfde997
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 21:34 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000758

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:30 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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Enrichment records (1)
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Green background with repeated black text 'im watchin' and 'you' separated by white horizontal lines in a pattern

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 11:20 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,326 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,164, response 641

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • repeated
  • text alignment
  • consistent spacing

Dense Caption

Green background with white horizontal lines forming a grid. Black text 'im watchin' appears in the top row of each grid cell, with 'you' directly below it. The text is repeated across three columns and two rows. The text 'im watchin' is partially obscured by pixelation, with the 'g' in 'watchin' missing. The text 'you' is fully visible in each cell. The grid structure is consistent across all visible cells.

Description

  • Green background with repeated black text 'im watchin' and 'you' separated by white horizontal lines in a pattern

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

  • green text
  • im watchin you
  • pixelated text
  • repeated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Green background with repeated black text 'im watchin' and 'you' separated by white horizontal lines in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: two rows
  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: repeated grid
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: green grid text

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Uncertain Text

  • im watchin

Visible Text

  • im watchin
  • you

Wordwall

  • green background
  • white horizontal lines
  • black text
  • im watchin
  • you
  • pattern
  • repeated text
  • pixelated text
  • three
  • two
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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
200807082350261847390483
Archive entry
200807082350261847390483.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#200807082350261847390483.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807082350261847390483.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016