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Yellow background with blue text "Samoas" repeated in a pattern, some highlighted with green rectangles

Yellow background with blue text "Samoas" repeated in a pattern, some highlighted with green rectangles. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two vertical sections
  • three per section
  • repeated text pattern

Dense Caption

The image displays a yellow background with the word "Samoas" rendered in light blue pixelated font across multiple rows and columns. The text appears three times per row in two vertical sections. Green rectangular highlights appear on specific cells: top-right section has one highlight, bottom-left section has two horizontal highlights, and bottom-right section has one highlight. All visible text is "Samoas" with consistent letter spacing and pixelated rendering.

Description

  • Yellow background with blue text "Samoas" repeated in a pattern, some highlighted with green rectangles

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

  • yellow background samoa text
  • green highlights samoas
  • pixelated samoas repeated
  • light blue samoas yellow green

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Yellow background with blue text "Samoas" repeated in a grid pattern, some cells highlighted with green rectangles.
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows per section
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: three rows per section
  • quarantined retrieval: green highlights samoas grid

Visible Text

  • Samoas

Visually Supported Entities

  • Samoas (brand name)

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • light blue text
  • "Samoas" repeated
  • green rectangular highlights
  • pixelated font
  • three per section
  • two vertical sections

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802100739081061525244
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 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/cf/cf6a498ac04f9512ca8a46780cded17be37328d0ef927166de590df94cc48507.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC
Archive ID
cf6a498ac04f9512
SHA-256
cf6a498ac04f9512ca8a46780cded17be37328d0ef927166de590df94cc48507
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:45 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.134389

OpenAI category scores

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Yellow background with blue text "Samoas" repeated in a pattern, some highlighted with green rectangles

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 19:36 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,166 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 620

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • green rectangles (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text samoas (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • light blue
  • green

Composition

  • two vertical sections
  • three per section
  • repeated text pattern

Dense Caption

The image displays a yellow background with the word "Samoas" rendered in light blue pixelated font across multiple rows and columns. The text appears three times per row in two vertical sections. Green rectangular highlights appear on specific cells: top-right section has one highlight, bottom-left section has two horizontal highlights, and bottom-right section has one highlight. All visible text is "Samoas" with consistent letter spacing and pixelated rendering.

Description

  • Yellow background with blue text "Samoas" repeated in a pattern, some highlighted with green rectangles

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

  • yellow background samoa text
  • green highlights samoas
  • pixelated samoas repeated
  • light blue samoas yellow green

Objects

  • green rectangles

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Yellow background with blue text "Samoas" repeated in a grid pattern, some cells highlighted with green rectangles.
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows per section
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: three rows per section
  • quarantined retrieval: green highlights samoas grid

Style

  • pixelated

Subjects

  • text "Samoas"

Visible Text

  • Samoas

Visually Supported Entities

  • Samoas (brand name)

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • light blue text
  • "Samoas" repeated
  • green rectangular highlights
  • pixelated font
  • three per section
  • two vertical sections
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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
200802100739081061525244
Archive entry
200802100739081061525244.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 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#200802100739081061525244.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802100739081061525244.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016