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Pixelated image with red text overlays on a background featuring a guitar hero character, split into four quadrants with different text and background colors.

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Pixelated image with red text overlays on a background featuring a guitar hero character, split into four quadrants with different text and background colors.

Pixelated image with red text overlays on a background featuring a guitar hero character, split into four quadrants with different text and background colors. Animated 50×50 GIF A…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text overlays
  • background color variation

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated composition divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant: brown background with white text "Guitar Hero" and red text "guitar" and "hero". Top-right quadrant: black background with white text "Guitar Hero" and red text "rox" and "you". Bottom-left quadrant: white background with white text "Guitar Hero" and red text "inside" and "out". Bottom-right quadrant: solid gray background. All red text is bold, blocky, and pixelated. The white text is stylized with a metallic or 3D effect. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital aesthetic typical of early 2000s web graphics.

Description

Pixelated image with red text overlays on a background featuring a guitar hero character, split into four quadrants with different text and background colors.

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
  • 200912170021511233521332
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • guitar hero guitar hero
  • guitar hero rox you
  • guitar hero inside out
  • guitar hero red text
  • guitar hero pixelated
  • guitar hero four quadrants
  • guitar hero brown black white gray
  • guitar hero retro digital

Objects

  • guitar

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Visible Text

  • guitar
  • hero
  • inside
  • out
  • rox
  • you
  • Guitar Hero

Wordwall

  • red text
  • guitar hero
  • pixelated
  • four quadrants
  • brown background
  • black background
  • white background
  • gray background
  • bold blocky text
  • metallic white text
  • retro digital
  • low resolution
  • guitar hero character
  • guitar
  • hero
  • rox
  • you
  • inside
  • out

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200912170021511233521332
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/be/bef2696719e295c7be9ca0998bb63272d68fa2116cae492121a5d1f46b5dc0b7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
bef2696719e295c7
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:36 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.127643

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image with red text overlays on a background featuring a guitar hero character, split into four quadrants with different text and background colors.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 21:23 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,037 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 859

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • guitar (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • stylized metallic text (style, 0.80)
  • guitar hero character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • brown
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text overlays
  • background color variation

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated composition divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant: brown background with white text "Guitar Hero" and red text "guitar" and "hero". Top-right quadrant: black background with white text "Guitar Hero" and red text "rox" and "you". Bottom-left quadrant: white background with white text "Guitar Hero" and red text "inside" and "out". Bottom-right quadrant: solid gray background. All red text is bold, blocky, and pixelated. The white text is stylized with a metallic or 3D effect. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital aesthetic typical of early 2000s web graphics.

Description

Pixelated image with red text overlays on a background featuring a guitar hero character, split into four quadrants with different text and background colors.

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
  • 200912170021511233521332
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • guitar hero guitar hero
  • guitar hero rox you
  • guitar hero inside out
  • guitar hero red text
  • guitar hero pixelated
  • guitar hero four quadrants
  • guitar hero brown black white gray
  • guitar hero retro digital

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  • guitar

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  • retro digital
  • blocky text
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Subjects

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  • hero
  • inside
  • out
  • rox
  • you
  • Guitar Hero

Wordwall

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  • brown background
  • black background
  • white background
  • gray background
  • bold blocky text
  • metallic white text
  • retro digital
  • low resolution
  • guitar hero character
  • guitar
  • hero
  • rox
  • you
  • inside
  • out
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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
200912170021511233521332
Archive entry
200912170021511233521332.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#200912170021511233521332.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200912170021511233521332.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016