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Four identical yellow starburst shapes with black text on a bright blue background, each displaying 'its wayy too hott.' in pixelated font.

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Four identical yellow starburst shapes with black text on a bright blue background, each displaying 'its wayy too hott.' in pixelated font.

Four identical yellow starburst shapes with black text on a bright blue background, each displaying 'its wayy too hott.' in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four identical elements
  • centered text within starbursts

Dense Caption

The image shows four identical yellow starburst-shaped icons arranged in a 2x2 grid against a solid bright blue background. Each icon contains the exact same black pixelated text: "its wayy too hott." The starbursts have sharp, jagged edges typical of low-resolution digital graphics from early internet era. All four instances are visually identical with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical yellow starburst shapes with black text on a bright blue background, each displaying 'its wayy too hott.' in pixelated font.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080610193502748945609

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow starburst text its wayy too hott
  • four identical pixel art icons blue background
  • text-based buddy icon bright blue
  • pixelated 'its wayy too hott' graphic

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Style

  • text-based icon

Visible Text

  • its wayy too hott.

Wordwall

  • yellow starburst
  • bright blue background
  • black pixelated text
  • four identical icons
  • text: its wayy too hott

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080610193502748945609
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC

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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/bc/bc101f77e73844efb5e10430f26169943963d457908666ab46ac9c834fe676d7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC
Archive ID
bc101f77e73844ef
SHA-256
bc101f77e73844efb5e10430f26169943963d457908666ab46ac9c834fe676d7
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 20:43 UTC
Run
1303
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.019802

OpenAI category scores

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Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 19:08 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000704

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:34 UTC
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1140
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Four identical yellow starburst shapes with black text on a bright blue background, each displaying 'its wayy too hott.' in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 16, 2026 at 20:38 UTC
Run
60
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,928 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 657

Review tags

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  • bright blue (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based icon (style, 0.80)
  • starbursts (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • bright blue
  • black

Composition

  • four identical elements
  • centered text within starbursts

Dense Caption

The image shows four identical yellow starburst-shaped icons arranged in a 2x2 grid against a solid bright blue background. Each icon contains the exact same black pixelated text: "its wayy too hott." The starbursts have sharp, jagged edges typical of low-resolution digital graphics from early internet era. All four instances are visually identical with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical yellow starburst shapes with black text on a bright blue background, each displaying 'its wayy too hott.' in pixelated font.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080610193502748945609

Mood

  • humorous
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow starburst text its wayy too hott
  • four identical pixel art icons blue background
  • text-based buddy icon bright blue
  • pixelated 'its wayy too hott' graphic

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution digital graphics
  • text-based icon

Subjects

  • starbursts

Visible Text

  • its wayy too hott.

Wordwall

  • yellow starburst
  • bright blue background
  • black pixelated text
  • four identical icons
  • text: its wayy too hott
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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
20080610193502748945609
Archive entry
20080610193502748945609.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 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#20080610193502748945609.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080610193502748945609.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016