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Red pixelated text lists names 'Me katdyn nick cory steven' on black background with white square-and-dot corner elements.

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Red pixelated text lists names 'Me katdyn nick cory steven' on black background with white square-and-dot corner elements.

Red pixelated text lists names 'Me katdyn nick cory steven' on black background with white square-and-dot corner elements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Composition

  • four quadrant layout
  • vertical text alignment
  • corner decorations

Dense Caption

Black background displays red pixelated text reading 'Me', 'katdyn', 'nick', 'cory', and 'steven' in vertical order. White decorative elements composed of squares and dots appear at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners. Text is rendered with blocky, low-resolution pixels typical of early digital graphics. The layout repeats across four quadrants on the same frame.

Description

  • Red pixelated text lists names 'Me katdyn nick cory steven' on black background with white square-and-dot corner elements.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 2007092112181387494744

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated names black background
  • four quadrant text layout
  • white square dot corner elements
  • katdyn nick cory steven list

Visible Text

  • Me
  • katdyn
  • nick
  • cory
  • steven

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • white square-dot corner elements
  • vertical name list
  • four quadrant repetition

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2007092112181387494744
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC

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GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
Archive ID
caf4c661cc399d9f
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:42 UTC
Run
1140
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Overall label
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Red pixelated text lists names 'Me katdyn nick cory steven' on black background with white square-and-dot corner elements.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 03:24 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,610 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 649

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  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
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  • red
  • white

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  • vertical text alignment
  • corner decorations

Dense Caption

Black background displays red pixelated text reading 'Me', 'katdyn', 'nick', 'cory', and 'steven' in vertical order. White decorative elements composed of squares and dots appear at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners. Text is rendered with blocky, low-resolution pixels typical of early digital graphics. The layout repeats across four quadrants on the same frame.

Description

  • Red pixelated text lists names 'Me katdyn nick cory steven' on black background with white square-and-dot corner elements.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 2007092112181387494744

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated names black background
  • four quadrant text layout
  • white square dot corner elements
  • katdyn nick cory steven list

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  • decorative elements

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  • katdyn
  • nick
  • cory
  • steven

Wordwall

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  • black background
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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
2007092112181387494744
Archive entry
2007092112181387494744.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 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#2007092112181387494744.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2007092112181387494744.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016