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Pixelated text fragments in purple and blue on a light blue background with abstract shapes.

Pixelated text fragments in purple and blue on a light blue background with abstract shapes. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text fragments scattered across image
  • small black dot near top center

Dense Caption

The image contains pixelated text fragments: 'who said' (purple), 'wat now' (purple), 'he said', 'ht franc', 'a b', 't start', 'end it!' (all blue). The background is light blue with faint white and purple abstract shapes. A small black dot appears near the top center of the image.

Description

  • Pixelated text fragments in purple and blue on a light blue background with abstract shapes.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200804041756391866870533

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text fragments light blue background
  • purple and blue pixelated text
  • light blue abstract shapes small black dot
  • fragmented text 'who said' 'wat now'

Visible Text

  • who said
  • wat now
  • he said
  • ht franc
  • a b
  • t start
  • end it!

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • light blue background
  • purple text fragments
  • blue text fragments
  • small black dot

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804041756391866870533
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b6/b69a690d21513d757364c11f6baadf437b579a03573a91e53eef4ea98a1fbc3a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
b69a690d21513d75
SHA-256
b69a690d21513d757364c11f6baadf437b579a03573a91e53eef4ea98a1fbc3a
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 4, 2026 at 23:25 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000489

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 31, 2026 at 23:58 UTC
Run
1252
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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

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Pixelated text fragments in purple and blue on a light blue background with abstract shapes.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 23:22 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,705 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 630

Review tags

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  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • ambiguous (mood, 0.80)
  • fragmented (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • purple
  • blue
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • text fragments scattered across image
  • small black dot near top center

Dense Caption

The image contains pixelated text fragments: 'who said' (purple), 'wat now' (purple), 'he said', 'ht franc', 'a b', 't start', 'end it!' (all blue). The background is light blue with faint white and purple abstract shapes. A small black dot appears near the top center of the image.

Description

  • Pixelated text fragments in purple and blue on a light blue background with abstract shapes.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200804041756391866870533

Mood

  • ambiguous
  • fragmented

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text fragments light blue background
  • purple and blue pixelated text
  • light blue abstract shapes small black dot
  • fragmented text 'who said' 'wat now'

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • who said
  • wat now
  • he said
  • ht franc
  • a b
  • t start
  • end it!

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • light blue background
  • purple text fragments
  • blue text fragments
  • small black dot
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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
200804041756391866870533
Archive entry
200804041756391866870533.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 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#200804041756391866870533.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804041756391866870533.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016