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Pixelated text on a gradient background with green and purple hues, showing four identical of text

Pixelated text on a gradient background with green and purple hues, showing four identical of text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • consistent spacing

Dense Caption

Four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid display pixelated text on a gradient background transitioning from purple to green. Each panel contains the text 'SOFTBALL= LOVE', 'soccer = STUPIDO', and 'lol mariah' in black, blocky, pixelated font. The background has a soft, blurred gradient with green and purple hues. The text is centered in each panel, with consistent spacing between lines. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a gradient background with green and purple hues, showing four identical of text

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

  • softball love soccer stupido lol mariah
  • pixelated text purple green
  • blocky font
  • retro digital low resolution
  • soccer stupido softball love
  • lol mariah pixelated
  • green purple gradient
  • blocky font text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated text on a gradient background with green and purple hues, showing four identical panels of text.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid blocky font

Visible Text

  • SOFTBALL= LOVE
  • soccer = STUPIDO
  • lol mariah

Wordwall

  • SOFTBALL= LOVE
  • soccer = STUPIDO
  • lol mariah
  • pixelated text
  • gradient background
  • purple green
  • blocky font
  • retro digital
  • low resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200904101414021729391276
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bc/bc73a3f623aa31fdde9438288a00324e9bdb4e544cdd0de03e8e4bf245b64374.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
bc73a3f623aa31fd
SHA-256
bc73a3f623aa31fdde9438288a00324e9bdb4e544cdd0de03e8e4bf245b64374
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 15:12 UTC
Run
1298
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000518

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:34 UTC
Run
1140
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated text on a gradient background with green and purple hues, showing four identical of text

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 06:13 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,201 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 704

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • green

Composition

  • centered text
  • consistent spacing

Dense Caption

Four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid display pixelated text on a gradient background transitioning from purple to green. Each panel contains the text 'SOFTBALL= LOVE', 'soccer = STUPIDO', and 'lol mariah' in black, blocky, pixelated font. The background has a soft, blurred gradient with green and purple hues. The text is centered in each panel, with consistent spacing between lines. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a gradient background with green and purple hues, showing four identical of text

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

  • softball love soccer stupido lol mariah
  • pixelated text purple green
  • blocky font
  • retro digital low resolution
  • soccer stupido softball love
  • lol mariah pixelated
  • green purple gradient
  • blocky font text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated text on a gradient background with green and purple hues, showing four identical panels of text.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid blocky font

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • SOFTBALL= LOVE
  • soccer = STUPIDO
  • lol mariah

Wordwall

  • SOFTBALL= LOVE
  • soccer = STUPIDO
  • lol mariah
  • pixelated text
  • gradient background
  • purple green
  • blocky font
  • retro digital
  • low resolution
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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
200904101414021729391276
Archive entry
200904101414021729391276.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#200904101414021729391276.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904101414021729391276.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016