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Yellow background with scattered red plus signs and purple 'IDK' text in multiple positions.

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Yellow background with scattered red plus signs and purple 'IDK' text in multiple positions.

Yellow background with scattered red plus signs and purple 'IDK' text in multiple positions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…

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Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all elements remain static across observations.

Composition

  • scattered elements
  • multiple text instances

Dense Caption

Yellow background with scattered red plus signs of varying sizes; four instances of purple 'IDK' text in pixelated font, positioned top-left, top-right, middle-left, and middle-right; no visible animation changes; red plus signs include small dots and larger cross shapes; text is consistently 'IDK' with no additional characters or symbols; all elements are static and non-repeating in layout; no visible motion or frame transitions observed.

Description

  • Yellow background with scattered red plus signs and purple 'IDK' text in multiple positions.

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

  • yellow background red plus signs IDK text
  • IDK text scattered plus signs
  • pixelated IDK yellow background
  • red plus signs purple IDK text

Visible Text

  • IDK

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • red plus signs
  • purple 'IDK' text
  • pixelated font
  • scattered plus signs
  • four 'IDK' instances
  • small dots
  • larger cross shapes
  • non-repeating layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708081927142130512532
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
555 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c5/c53f2191e22105cf351eca4108b9ec246e7defa0e90cb0dce27db8563ebecb40.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
c53f2191e22105cf
SHA-256
c53f2191e22105cf351eca4108b9ec246e7defa0e90cb0dce27db8563ebecb40
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:39 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.102076

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.918958onnx/unsafe0.102076onnx/nsfw0.059905onnx/nsfl0.042171
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Yellow background with scattered red plus signs and purple 'IDK' text in multiple positions.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 21:01 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,076 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 541

Review tags

  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all elements remain static across observations.

Colors

  • yellow
  • red
  • purple

Composition

  • scattered elements
  • multiple text instances

Dense Caption

Yellow background with scattered red plus signs of varying sizes; four instances of purple 'IDK' text in pixelated font, positioned top-left, top-right, middle-left, and middle-right; no visible animation changes; red plus signs include small dots and larger cross shapes; text is consistently 'IDK' with no additional characters or symbols; all elements are static and non-repeating in layout; no visible motion or frame transitions observed.

Description

  • Yellow background with scattered red plus signs and purple 'IDK' text in multiple positions.

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

  • yellow background red plus signs IDK text
  • IDK text scattered plus signs
  • pixelated IDK yellow background
  • red plus signs purple IDK text

Style

  • pixelated
  • static

Visible Text

  • IDK

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • red plus signs
  • purple 'IDK' text
  • pixelated font
  • scattered plus signs
  • four 'IDK' instances
  • small dots
  • larger cross shapes
  • non-repeating layout
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:56 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200708081927142130512532
Archive entry
200708081927142130512532.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#200708081927142130512532.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708081927142130512532.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016