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Pixelated text words on a black-and-white checkered background with a gray rectangle on the right.

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Pixelated text words on a black-and-white checkered background with a gray rectangle on the right.

Pixelated text words on a black-and-white checkered background with a gray rectangle on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text arranged in two
  • top : 'mason', 'blake', 'trace'
  • bottom : 'ant', 'metro station'
  • gray rectangle occupies right third of image

Dense Caption

Black-and-white checkered background with a solid gray rectangle on the right side. Four distinct text phrases: 'mason' in orange with black outline, 'blake' in blue with black outline, 'trace' in green with black outline, 'ant' in yellow with black outline, and 'metro station' in red with black outline. All text uses a pixelated font style. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text words on a black-and-white checkered background with a gray rectangle on the right.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • mason blake trace ant metro station
  • orange blue green yellow red text
  • checkered background gray rectangle
  • pixelated text words
  • text-based icon
  • black outlines on text
  • two text layout
  • gray rectangle right side

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: bottom row: 'ant', 'metro station'
  • quarantined composition: top row: 'mason', 'blake', 'trace'
  • quarantined composition: text arranged in two rows
  • quarantined retrieval: two rows text layout

Visible Text

  • mason
  • blake
  • trace
  • ant
  • metro station

Wordwall

  • black-and-white checkered background
  • gray rectangle on right
  • orange text 'mason'
  • blue text 'blake'
  • green text 'trace'
  • yellow text 'ant'
  • red text 'metro station'
  • pixelated font style
  • black outlines on all text

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807101409561975269556
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.2 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d0/d08ac722bb230e1967482f9eb97a12077bb88b079f8dff1e67744dda37fc8611.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Archive ID
d08ac722bb230e19
SHA-256
d08ac722bb230e1967482f9eb97a12077bb88b079f8dff1e67744dda37fc8611
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 30, 2026 at 17:16 UTC
Run
15966
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000021

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.000021falseharassment0.000010falseviolence0.000006falseillicit0.000005falseviolence/graphic0.000003falseself-harm0.000003falsehate0.000003falseharassment/threatening0.000001falseillicit/violent0.000001falseself-harm/intent0.000001falsesexual/minors0.000000falseself-harm/instructions0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000false
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 00:19 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001231

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.001231falseself-harm0.000505falseself-harm/intent0.000214falsesexual0.000068falseviolence/graphic0.000028falseself-harm/instructions0.000003falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
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
0.145936

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.880639onnx/unsafe0.145936onnx/nsfw0.099712onnx/nsfl0.046225
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated text words on a black-and-white checkered background with a gray rectangle on the right.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 11:43 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,699 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,165, response 724

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • orange
  • blue
  • green
  • yellow
  • red

Composition

  • text arranged in two
  • top : 'mason', 'blake', 'trace'
  • bottom : 'ant', 'metro station'
  • gray rectangle occupies right third of image

Dense Caption

Black-and-white checkered background with a solid gray rectangle on the right side. Four distinct text phrases: 'mason' in orange with black outline, 'blake' in blue with black outline, 'trace' in green with black outline, 'ant' in yellow with black outline, and 'metro station' in red with black outline. All text uses a pixelated font style. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated text words on a black-and-white checkered background with a gray rectangle on the right.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • mason blake trace ant metro station
  • orange blue green yellow red text
  • checkered background gray rectangle
  • pixelated text words
  • text-based icon
  • black outlines on text
  • two text layout
  • gray rectangle right side

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: bottom row: 'ant', 'metro station'
  • quarantined composition: top row: 'mason', 'blake', 'trace'
  • quarantined composition: text arranged in two rows
  • quarantined retrieval: two rows text layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • blocky

Visible Text

  • mason
  • blake
  • trace
  • ant
  • metro station

Wordwall

  • black-and-white checkered background
  • gray rectangle on right
  • orange text 'mason'
  • blue text 'blake'
  • green text 'trace'
  • yellow text 'ant'
  • red text 'metro station'
  • pixelated font style
  • black outlines on all text
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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
200807101409561975269556
Archive entry
200807101409561975269556.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#200807101409561975269556.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807101409561975269556.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016