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A static image with a bright pink background featuring repeated green text and cyan decorative elements arranged in a pattern

A static image with a bright pink background featuring repeated green text and cyan decorative elements arranged in a pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four identical quadrants
  • text arranged in three lines
  • decorative elements at corners and intersections

Dense Caption

The image displays a static composition with a solid bright pink background. Four identical quadrants contain green pixelated text reading "BAM that's how it's done sorry" arranged in three lines. Cyan decorative elements include small asterisks at the corners and dotted lines forming a grid. The text and decorations are repeated in all four quadrants. The image uses a limited color palette of bright pink, green, and cyan with a pixelated, retro digital style.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background featuring repeated green text and cyan decorative elements arranged in a pattern

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070830162742649398307

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background green text cyan decorations
  • BAM that's how it's done sorry text
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • repeated quadrants cyan asterisks
  • retro digital text icon
  • four identical sections pink cyan green
  • buddy icon text
  • green pixelated text pink background

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; appears static
  • quarantined description: A static image with a bright pink background featuring repeated green text and cyan decorative elements arranged in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: dotted grid lines
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: decorative elements at corners and grid intersections
  • quarantined retrieval: buddy icon text grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid buddy icon

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • BAM
  • that's how
  • it's done
  • sorry

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • green pixelated text
  • cyan decorative elements
  • repeated quadrants
  • asterisks at corners
  • dotted lines
  • text: BAM that's how it's done sorry
  • pixelated retro style
  • four identical sections
  • solid color background

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070830162742649398307
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bb/bb082af724f8f0eb6f492fc265129a90caf1dec93d3b98e8509a3e99ed57d0af.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
bb082af724f8f0eb
SHA-256
bb082af724f8f0eb6f492fc265129a90caf1dec93d3b98e8509a3e99ed57d0af
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 01:19 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010213

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:34 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.145708

OpenAI category scores

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

A static image with a bright pink background featuring repeated green text and cyan decorative elements arranged in a pattern

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 08:13 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,814 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 784

Review tags

  • bright pink (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

  • bright pink
  • green
  • cyan

Composition

  • four identical quadrants
  • text arranged in three lines
  • decorative elements at corners and intersections

Dense Caption

The image displays a static composition with a solid bright pink background. Four identical quadrants contain green pixelated text reading "BAM that's how it's done sorry" arranged in three lines. Cyan decorative elements include small asterisks at the corners and dotted lines forming a grid. The text and decorations are repeated in all four quadrants. The image uses a limited color palette of bright pink, green, and cyan with a pixelated, retro digital style.

Description

  • A static image with a bright pink background featuring repeated green text and cyan decorative elements arranged in a pattern

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070830162742649398307

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • energetic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background green text cyan decorations
  • BAM that's how it's done sorry text
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • repeated quadrants cyan asterisks
  • retro digital text icon
  • four identical sections pink cyan green
  • buddy icon text
  • green pixelated text pink background

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; appears static
  • quarantined description: A static image with a bright pink background featuring repeated green text and cyan decorative elements arranged in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: dotted grid lines
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: decorative elements at corners and grid intersections
  • quarantined retrieval: buddy icon text grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid buddy icon

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • BAM
  • that's how
  • it's done
  • sorry

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • green pixelated text
  • cyan decorative elements
  • repeated quadrants
  • asterisks at corners
  • dotted lines
  • text: BAM that's how it's done sorry
  • pixelated retro style
  • four identical sections
  • solid color background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:42 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
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
20070830162742649398307
Archive entry
20070830162742649398307.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#20070830162742649398307.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070830162742649398307.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016