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Red background with black pixelated text reading 'gay ppl' and 'r scary' above a green and orange pixelated pattern resembling flames.

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Red background with black pixelated text reading 'gay ppl' and 'r scary' above a green and orange pixelated pattern resembling flames.

Red background with black pixelated text reading 'gay ppl' and 'r scary' above a green and orange pixelated pattern resembling flames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Composition

  • text top
  • pattern bottom
  • horizontal band
  • repeated text

Dense Caption

Red background with black pixelated text reading 'gay ppl' on the top line and 'r scary' on the bottom line, both repeated side-by-side. Below the text, a horizontal band of pixelated green and orange shapes resembling flames or abstract vegetation spans the width of the image. The green shapes are bright and prominent, with orange accents blending into the red background. The text and pattern are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Red background with black pixelated text reading 'gay ppl' and 'r scary' above a green and orange pixelated pattern resembling flames.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gay ppl r scary
  • red background pixelated text
  • green orange flame pattern
  • text repeated side-by-side

Visible Text

  • gay ppl
  • r scary

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black pixelated text
  • text: 'gay ppl'
  • text: 'r scary'
  • green and orange pixelated pattern
  • flame-like shapes
  • text repeated side-by-side
  • horizontal band of shapes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802281805151476073121
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
688 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 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 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
b92431bac301314d
SHA-256
b92431bac301314d5ba88da941c469ae9dbf75e7132acaa19ddb90d2410b6875
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:33 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085890

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Red background with black pixelated text reading 'gay ppl' and 'r scary' above a green and orange pixelated pattern resembling flames.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 13:41 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,202 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 605

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • red
  • black
  • green
  • orange

Composition

  • text top
  • pattern bottom
  • horizontal band
  • repeated text

Dense Caption

Red background with black pixelated text reading 'gay ppl' on the top line and 'r scary' on the bottom line, both repeated side-by-side. Below the text, a horizontal band of pixelated green and orange shapes resembling flames or abstract vegetation spans the width of the image. The green shapes are bright and prominent, with orange accents blending into the red background. The text and pattern are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Red background with black pixelated text reading 'gay ppl' and 'r scary' above a green and orange pixelated pattern resembling flames.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gay ppl r scary
  • red background pixelated text
  • green orange flame pattern
  • text repeated side-by-side

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • gay ppl
  • r scary

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black pixelated text
  • text: 'gay ppl'
  • text: 'r scary'
  • green and orange pixelated pattern
  • flame-like shapes
  • text repeated side-by-side
  • horizontal band of shapes
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:25 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200802281805151476073121
Archive entry
200802281805151476073121.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#200802281805151476073121.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802281805151476073121.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016