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Four colored squares with pixelated text: blue says "we're the", green says "squarest squares", yellow says "that you'll", red says "ever meet!".

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Four colored squares with pixelated text: blue says "we're the", green says "squarest squares", yellow says "that you'll", red says "ever meet!".

Four colored squares with pixelated text: blue says "we're the", green says "squarest squares", yellow says "that you'll", red says "ever meet!". Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four squares
  • centered text
  • uniform spacing
  • solid backgrounds

Dense Caption

Four square-shaped icons arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left square is solid blue with white pixelated text "we're" on the top line and "the" on the bottom line. Top-right square is solid green with white pixelated text "squarest" on the top line and "squares" on the bottom line. Bottom-left square is solid yellow with white pixelated text "that" on the top line and "you'll" on the bottom line. Bottom-right square is solid red with white pixelated text "ever" on the top line and "meet!" on the bottom line. All squares have rounded corners and uniform border thickness. Text is centered within each square. The entire composition is a static image with no visible animation.

Description

Four colored squares with pixelated text: blue says "we're the", green says "squarest squares", yellow says "that you'll", red says "ever meet!".

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue square we're the
  • green square squarest squares
  • yellow square that you'll
  • red square ever meet
  • four squares text
  • pixelated text squares
  • text
  • exclamation mark text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid text

Visible Text

  • we're
  • the
  • squarest
  • squares
  • that
  • you'll
  • ever
  • meet!

Wordwall

  • blue square
  • green square
  • yellow square
  • red square
  • pixelated text
  • we're the
  • squarest squares
  • that you'll
  • ever meet!
  • rounded corners
  • white text
  • solid background
  • centered text
  • four squares
  • text lines
  • exclamation mark
  • no animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811111515461104151746
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081111151709395180685
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c6/c6d883f6427c9c9d5fbfaa167121eb63b6d90769eb1704a6b1b77fd57849a46e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
c6d883f6427c9c9d
SHA-256
c6d883f6427c9c9d5fbfaa167121eb63b6d90769eb1704a6b1b77fd57849a46e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:40 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082809

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.926020onnx/unsafe0.082809onnx/nsfw0.050886onnx/nsfl0.031923
Enrichment records (1)
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Four colored squares with pixelated text: blue says "we're the", green says "squarest squares", yellow says "that you'll", red says "ever meet!".

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 08:21 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,864 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,156, response 847

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • confident (mood, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • green
  • yellow
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • four squares
  • centered text
  • uniform spacing
  • solid backgrounds

Dense Caption

Four square-shaped icons arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left square is solid blue with white pixelated text "we're" on the top line and "the" on the bottom line. Top-right square is solid green with white pixelated text "squarest" on the top line and "squares" on the bottom line. Bottom-left square is solid yellow with white pixelated text "that" on the top line and "you'll" on the bottom line. Bottom-right square is solid red with white pixelated text "ever" on the top line and "meet!" on the bottom line. All squares have rounded corners and uniform border thickness. Text is centered within each square. The entire composition is a static image with no visible animation.

Description

Four colored squares with pixelated text: blue says "we're the", green says "squarest squares", yellow says "that you'll", red says "ever meet!".

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous
  • confident

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue square we're the
  • green square squarest squares
  • yellow square that you'll
  • red square ever meet
  • four squares text
  • pixelated text squares
  • text
  • exclamation mark text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid text

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • we're
  • the
  • squarest
  • squares
  • that
  • you'll
  • ever
  • meet!

Wordwall

  • blue square
  • green square
  • yellow square
  • red square
  • pixelated text
  • we're the
  • squarest squares
  • that you'll
  • ever meet!
  • rounded corners
  • white text
  • solid background
  • centered text
  • four squares
  • text lines
  • exclamation mark
  • no animation
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Full source records (2)

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
200811111515461104151746
Archive entry
200811111515461104151746.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#200811111515461104151746.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811111515461104151746.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20081111151709395180685
Archive entry
20081111151709395180685.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#20081111151709395180685.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081111151709395180685.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016