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Pixelated green text on dark blue background with yellow border, four instances of the same character set arranged in a pattern

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image
  • no motion observed

Composition

  • arrangement
  • four instances
  • central cluster

Dense Caption

Dark blue square background with bright yellow pixelated border forming irregular jagged edges. Four identical sets of green pixelated characters displayed at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right positions. Each character set consists of three distinct shapes resembling stylized letters or symbols. Central area contains a small yellow pixel cluster in the middle. All elements maintain consistent low-resolution 8-bit style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated green text on dark blue background with yellow border, four instances of the same character set arranged in a pattern

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated green text dark blue background
  • yellow border arrangement
  • four identical character sets
  • low-resolution stencil-like shapes

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated green text on dark blue background with yellow border, four instances of the same character set arranged in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined composition: grid arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: yellow border grid arrangement

Visible Text

  • ? ? ?

Visually Supported Entities

  • text characters

Wordwall

  • dark blue background
  • yellow border
  • green text
  • four instances
  • pixelated characters
  • arrangement
  • low-resolution
  • stencil-like shapes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712310934031107778943
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c7/c7eb838ac792d618e9e9ca67be6179184cabc432feff0572d24e42f39b42ea12.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC
Archive ID
c7eb838ac792d618
SHA-256
c7eb838ac792d618e9e9ca67be6179184cabc432feff0572d24e42f39b42ea12
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:41 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075685

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated green text on dark blue background with yellow border, four instances of the same character set arranged in a pattern

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 06:20 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,521 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 575

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • retro (mood, 0.80)
  • no motion observed (other, 0.80)
  • static image (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • stencil like (style, 0.80)
  • text characters (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image
  • no motion observed

Colors

  • dark blue
  • yellow
  • green

Composition

  • arrangement
  • four instances
  • central cluster

Dense Caption

Dark blue square background with bright yellow pixelated border forming irregular jagged edges. Four identical sets of green pixelated characters displayed at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right positions. Each character set consists of three distinct shapes resembling stylized letters or symbols. Central area contains a small yellow pixel cluster in the middle. All elements maintain consistent low-resolution 8-bit style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated green text on dark blue background with yellow border, four instances of the same character set arranged in a pattern

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

Mood

  • neutral
  • retro

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated green text dark blue background
  • yellow border arrangement
  • four identical character sets
  • low-resolution stencil-like shapes

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated green text on dark blue background with yellow border, four instances of the same character set arranged in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined composition: grid arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: yellow border grid arrangement

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • stencil-like

Subjects

  • text characters

Visible Text

  • ? ? ?

Visually Supported Entities

  • text characters

Wordwall

  • dark blue background
  • yellow border
  • green text
  • four instances
  • pixelated characters
  • arrangement
  • low-resolution
  • stencil-like shapes
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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
200712310934031107778943
Archive entry
200712310934031107778943.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 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#200712310934031107778943.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712310934031107778943.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016