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Pixelated green text on a teal gradient background with four identical showing repeated phrases and 'Nationals' at the bottom

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Pixelated green text on a teal gradient background with four identical showing repeated phrases and 'Nationals' at the bottom

Pixelated green text on a teal gradient background with four identical showing repeated phrases and 'Nationals' at the bottom. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four identical
  • centered text
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

Four identical 2x2 grid panels display pixelated green text reading "ns better wms better w" (top), "nd back upnd back up" (middle top), "n we step u we step u" (middle bottom), "he plate in he plate in" (bottom middle), and "Nationals" at the very bottom. The background is a teal-to-black gradient with light blue pixel clusters. Text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital displays.

Description

  • Pixelated green text on a teal gradient background with four identical showing repeated phrases and 'Nationals' at the bottom

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20080715104126428139019
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080715104126428139019

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • teal gradient green text nationals
  • pixelated text four
  • blocky font repeated phrases
  • retro digital display Nationals

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; all four observations match exactly
  • quarantined description: Pixelated green text on a teal gradient background with four identical panels showing repeated phrases and 'Nationals' at the bottom.
  • quarantined wordwall: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid four panels

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visible Text

  • ns better wms better w
  • nd back upnd back up
  • n we step u we step u
  • he plate in he plate in
  • Nationals

Wordwall

  • teal gradient background
  • green pixelated text
  • four identical
  • repeated phrases
  • Nationals text
  • blocky font
  • light blue pixel clusters

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080715104126428139019
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bc/bca37e0fdd9d1a84f1b821aa028c0fa30f2b3343535a8634da7db3656580adef.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Archive ID
bca37e0fdd9d1a84
SHA-256
bca37e0fdd9d1a84f1b821aa028c0fa30f2b3343535a8634da7db3656580adef
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 19:22 UTC
Run
1295
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000594

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:30 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated green text on a teal gradient background with four identical showing repeated phrases and 'Nationals' at the bottom

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 12:28 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,199 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 799

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • retro (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • teal
  • green
  • black
  • light blue

Composition

  • four identical
  • centered text
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

Four identical 2x2 grid panels display pixelated green text reading "ns better wms better w" (top), "nd back upnd back up" (middle top), "n we step u we step u" (middle bottom), "he plate in he plate in" (bottom middle), and "Nationals" at the very bottom. The background is a teal-to-black gradient with light blue pixel clusters. Text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital displays.

Description

  • Pixelated green text on a teal gradient background with four identical showing repeated phrases and 'Nationals' at the bottom

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20080715104126428139019
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080715104126428139019

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • retro

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • teal gradient green text nationals
  • pixelated text four
  • blocky font repeated phrases
  • retro digital display Nationals

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; all four observations match exactly
  • quarantined description: Pixelated green text on a teal gradient background with four identical panels showing repeated phrases and 'Nationals' at the bottom.
  • quarantined wordwall: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid four panels

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • ns better wms better w
  • nd back upnd back up
  • n we step u we step u
  • he plate in he plate in
  • Nationals

Wordwall

  • teal gradient background
  • green pixelated text
  • four identical
  • repeated phrases
  • Nationals text
  • blocky font
  • light blue pixel clusters
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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
20080715104126428139019
Archive entry
20080715104126428139019.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#20080715104126428139019.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080715104126428139019.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016