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Purple background with cyan pixelated text reading 'im am a retard... now hear me...' and 'RAAWWWW!!' in the bottom-left corner.

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Purple background with cyan pixelated text reading 'im am a retard... now hear me...' and 'RAAWWWW!!' in the bottom-left corner.

Purple background with cyan pixelated text reading 'im am a retard... now hear me...' and 'RAAWWWW!!' in the bottom-left corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Source terms

Composition

  • 4-quadrant
  • top-left text block
  • top-right text block
  • bottom-left text block
  • bottom-right solid color

Dense Caption

The image consists of four quadrants on a solid purple background. Top-left quadrant displays cyan pixelated text: 'im', 'am', 'a', 'retard...', each on separate lines with increasing horizontal spacing from top to bottom. Top-right quadrant shows cyan pixelated text: 'now', 'hear', 'me...', also on separate lines with similar spacing. Bottom-left quadrant contains cyan pixelated text 'RAAWWWW!!' spanning the entire width of that section. Bottom-right quadrant is a solid gray color. All visible text uses a retro 8-bit font style.

Description

  • Purple background with cyan pixelated text reading 'im am a retard... now hear me...' and 'RAAWWWW!!' in the bottom-left corner.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • 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
  • 200710132155032018454103

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple cyan text retard now hear me
  • retard now hear me RAAWWWWW
  • cyan pixelated 8-bit text
  • 4 quadrant purple gray text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: 4-quadrant grid
  • quarantined retrieval: cyan pixelated 8-bit text grid

Visible Text

  • im am a retard...
  • now hear me...
  • RAAWWWW!!

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • cyan pixelated text
  • retard... now hear me...
  • RAAWWWW!!
  • 4 quadrants
  • solid gray bottom-right
  • 8-bit font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710132155032018454103
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bd/bdef33920c886a4e8c8f7eb04d399e512a2a9ff65e8f7268c1427495163a8a5a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC
Archive ID
bdef33920c886a4e
SHA-256
bdef33920c886a4e8c8f7eb04d399e512a2a9ff65e8f7268c1427495163a8a5a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:35 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.161039

OpenAI category scores

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Purple background with cyan pixelated text reading 'im am a retard... now hear me...' and 'RAAWWWW!!' in the bottom-left corner.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 09:55 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,551 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 711

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • cyan
  • gray

Composition

  • 4-quadrant
  • top-left text block
  • top-right text block
  • bottom-left text block
  • bottom-right solid color

Dense Caption

The image consists of four quadrants on a solid purple background. Top-left quadrant displays cyan pixelated text: 'im', 'am', 'a', 'retard...', each on separate lines with increasing horizontal spacing from top to bottom. Top-right quadrant shows cyan pixelated text: 'now', 'hear', 'me...', also on separate lines with similar spacing. Bottom-left quadrant contains cyan pixelated text 'RAAWWWW!!' spanning the entire width of that section. Bottom-right quadrant is a solid gray color. All visible text uses a retro 8-bit font style.

Description

  • Purple background with cyan pixelated text reading 'im am a retard... now hear me...' and 'RAAWWWW!!' in the bottom-left corner.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • 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
  • 200710132155032018454103

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple cyan text retard now hear me
  • retard now hear me RAAWWWWW
  • cyan pixelated 8-bit text
  • 4 quadrant purple gray text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: 4-quadrant grid
  • quarantined retrieval: cyan pixelated 8-bit text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro 8-bit
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • im am a retard...
  • now hear me...
  • RAAWWWW!!

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • cyan pixelated text
  • retard... now hear me...
  • RAAWWWW!!
  • 4 quadrants
  • solid gray bottom-right
  • 8-bit font
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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
200710132155032018454103
Archive entry
200710132155032018454103.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 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#200710132155032018454103.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710132155032018454103.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016