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Pixelated icon with bold white 'MIA' text over a black background, surrounded by a grid of bright colored squares in purple, pink, green, yellow, blue, and orange.

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Pixelated icon with bold white 'MIA' text over a black background, surrounded by a grid of bright colored squares in purple, pink, green, yellow, blue, and orange.

Pixelated icon with bold white 'MIA' text over a black background, surrounded by a grid of bright colored squares in purple, pink, green, yellow, blue, and orange. 48×48 GIF AIM b…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • checkerboard grid
  • solid color squares

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated, blocky style with large white 'MIA' text centered on a black background. Surrounding the text is a grid of solid-colored squares in purple, pink, green, yellow, blue, and orange. The squares are arranged in a checkerboard pattern with black spaces between them. The text has a slight pixelated distortion, with some green and purple pixels visible near the letters. The overall composition is a dense, colorful grid with no additional elements or motion.

Description

Pixelated icon with bold white 'MIA' text over a black background, surrounded by a grid of bright colored squares in purple, pink, green, yellow, blue, and orange.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • MIA pixelated icon
  • colorful grid text icon
  • pixelated MIA squares
  • blocky text grid icon
  • MIA checkerboard squares
  • white text black background grid
  • pixelated text colorful squares
  • MIA solid color grid

Visible Text

  • MIA

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • MIA text
  • black background
  • purple squares
  • pink squares
  • green squares
  • yellow squares
  • blue squares
  • orange squares
  • checkerboard grid
  • solid colors
  • no motion
  • blocky style
  • centered text
  • green pixels near M
  • purple pixels near A
  • pixel distortion
  • dense grid

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201003220634561521940750
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ba/ba69c3b6a91760a9edd6a0606370d1adff43b5145ab631887c65eab2bd2b653c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC
Archive ID
ba69c3b6a91760a9
SHA-256
ba69c3b6a91760a9edd6a0606370d1adff43b5145ab631887c65eab2bd2b653c
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 31, 2026 at 01:09 UTC
Run
15969
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000052

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 19:55 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.015985

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:33 UTC
Run
1140
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.154242

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated icon with bold white 'MIA' text over a black background, surrounded by a grid of bright colored squares in purple, pink, green, yellow, blue, and orange.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 17:57 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,566 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 740

Review tags

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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • pink
  • green
  • yellow
  • blue
  • orange
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered text
  • checkerboard grid
  • solid color squares

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated, blocky style with large white 'MIA' text centered on a black background. Surrounding the text is a grid of solid-colored squares in purple, pink, green, yellow, blue, and orange. The squares are arranged in a checkerboard pattern with black spaces between them. The text has a slight pixelated distortion, with some green and purple pixels visible near the letters. The overall composition is a dense, colorful grid with no additional elements or motion.

Description

Pixelated icon with bold white 'MIA' text over a black background, surrounded by a grid of bright colored squares in purple, pink, green, yellow, blue, and orange.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • MIA pixelated icon
  • colorful grid text icon
  • pixelated MIA squares
  • blocky text grid icon
  • MIA checkerboard squares
  • white text black background grid
  • pixelated text colorful squares
  • MIA solid color grid

Objects

  • squares

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • grid

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • MIA

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • MIA text
  • black background
  • purple squares
  • pink squares
  • green squares
  • yellow squares
  • blue squares
  • orange squares
  • checkerboard grid
  • solid colors
  • no motion
  • blocky style
  • centered text
  • green pixels near M
  • purple pixels near A
  • pixel distortion
  • dense grid
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:23 UTC
Run
61
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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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
201003220634561521940750
Archive entry
201003220634561521940750.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 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#201003220634561521940750.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201003220634561521940750.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016