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Six distinct pixelated images arranged in a , each with overlaid text in various colors and fonts

Six distinct pixelated images arranged in a , each with overlaid text in various colors and fonts. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • six distinct
  • text overlaid on imagery

Dense Caption

Six distinct pixelated images arranged in a 2x3 grid. Top-left: purple background with white text 'im not random' and three white dots. Top-middle: brown textured background with green text 'bubbles!'. Top-right: blue and orange background with pink text 'potatos!'. Bottom-left: textured gray background with black text 'nickles!' and a large eye. Bottom-middle: orange and red background with blue text 'crackers!'. Bottom-right: white background with brown apple and cyan text 'yo face!'.

Description

  • Six distinct pixelated images arranged in a , each with overlaid text in various colors and fonts

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

  • im not random bubbles potatos
  • nickles crackers yo face
  • purple green pink gray orange red
  • dots eye apple
  • text overlaid pixelated

Objects

  • eye

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Six distinct pixelated images arranged in a 2x3 grid, each with overlaid text in various colors and fonts.
  • quarantined composition: six distinct panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: text overlaid pixelated grid

Style

  • text-overlaid

Subjects

  • eye

Visible Text

  • im not random
  • bubbles!
  • potatos!
  • nickles!
  • crackers!
  • yo face!

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • white text 'im not random'
  • three white dots
  • green text 'bubbles!'
  • pink text 'potatos!'
  • gray textured background
  • black text 'nickles!'
  • large eye
  • orange-red background
  • blue text 'crackers!'
  • white background
  • brown apple
  • cyan text 'yo face!'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090627132356332640071
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
8.2 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/be/be45226b7b24cca261ddc146d857bf08049344d17c2b4f98eefedfa7b7c40b42.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
be45226b7b24cca2
SHA-256
be45226b7b24cca261ddc146d857bf08049344d17c2b4f98eefedfa7b7c40b42
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.114934

OpenAI category scores

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Six distinct pixelated images arranged in a , each with overlaid text in various colors and fonts

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 13:17 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,141 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,164, response 768

Review tags

  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • graffiti style (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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  • apple (subject, 0.80)
  • bubbles (subject, 0.80)
  • crackers (subject, 0.80)
  • dots (subject, 0.80)
  • eye (subject, 0.80)
  • potatos (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • white
  • green
  • pink
  • gray
  • black
  • orange
  • red
  • blue
  • cyan
  • brown
  • yellow

Composition

  • six distinct
  • text overlaid on imagery

Dense Caption

Six distinct pixelated images arranged in a 2x3 grid. Top-left: purple background with white text 'im not random' and three white dots. Top-middle: brown textured background with green text 'bubbles!'. Top-right: blue and orange background with pink text 'potatos!'. Bottom-left: textured gray background with black text 'nickles!' and a large eye. Bottom-middle: orange and red background with blue text 'crackers!'. Bottom-right: white background with brown apple and cyan text 'yo face!'.

Description

  • Six distinct pixelated images arranged in a , each with overlaid text in various colors and fonts

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

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous
  • quirky

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • im not random bubbles potatos
  • nickles crackers yo face
  • purple green pink gray orange red
  • dots eye apple
  • text overlaid pixelated

Objects

  • dots
  • bubbles
  • potatos
  • eye
  • crackers
  • apple

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Six distinct pixelated images arranged in a 2x3 grid, each with overlaid text in various colors and fonts.
  • quarantined composition: six distinct panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: text overlaid pixelated grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-overlaid
  • graffiti-style
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • dots
  • bubbles
  • potatos
  • eye
  • crackers
  • apple

Visible Text

  • im not random
  • bubbles!
  • potatos!
  • nickles!
  • crackers!
  • yo face!

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • white text 'im not random'
  • three white dots
  • green text 'bubbles!'
  • pink text 'potatos!'
  • gray textured background
  • black text 'nickles!'
  • large eye
  • orange-red background
  • blue text 'crackers!'
  • white background
  • brown apple
  • cyan text 'yo face!'
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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
20090627132356332640071
Archive entry
20090627132356332640071.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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#20090627132356332640071.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090627132356332640071.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016