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A static image with a yellow cross on black background and yellow text on yellow background.

A static image with a yellow cross on black background and yellow text on yellow background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-left quadrant black background
  • remaining yellow background
  • text positioned top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right

Dense Caption

The image contains a yellow cross with a pink outline on a black background in the top-left quadrant. The remaining area is a solid yellow background. Text elements include '1 cross +' in pink at the top-right, '3 nails =' in pink at the bottom-left, and '4GVN' in pink at the bottom-right. All text is rendered in a pixelated font. The cross has a thick yellow center with a pink border. The background is split into two distinct color regions: black for the cross area and yellow for the text area.

Description

  • A static image with a yellow cross on black background and yellow text on yellow background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow cross pink outline
  • 1 cross plus 3 nails equals 4GVN
  • pixelated text cross nails
  • yellow background black background cross
  • cross nails 4GVN
  • 1 cross plus 3 nails
  • yellow cross black background
  • 4GVN cross nails

Visible Text

  • 1 cross +
  • 3 nails =
  • 4GVN

Wordwall

  • yellow cross
  • pink outline
  • black background
  • yellow background
  • 1 cross +
  • 3 nails =
  • 4GVN
  • pixelated text
  • thick yellow center
  • pink border
  • top-left quadrant
  • solid yellow background
  • text in pink
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070729161617612955803
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d1/d16f4411ffbb878234b442dd44bc74fc648ff056c2876a3d71203d041cfffa85.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
d16f4411ffbb8782
SHA-256
d16f4411ffbb878234b442dd44bc74fc648ff056c2876a3d71203d041cfffa85
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 27, 2026 at 07:33 UTC
Run
1351
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000489

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 2, 2026 at 12:25 UTC
Run
1254
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.004698

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagself-harm0.004698falseviolence/graphic0.001605falseviolence0.001274falseself-harm/intent0.000281falseself-harm/instructions0.000236falsesexual0.000022falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:46 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.351787

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static image with a yellow cross on black background and yellow text on yellow background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,368 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 748

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • mathematical (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • digital (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cross (subject, 0.80)
  • nails (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • pink
  • black

Composition

  • top-left quadrant black background
  • remaining yellow background
  • text positioned top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right

Dense Caption

The image contains a yellow cross with a pink outline on a black background in the top-left quadrant. The remaining area is a solid yellow background. Text elements include '1 cross +' in pink at the top-right, '3 nails =' in pink at the bottom-left, and '4GVN' in pink at the bottom-right. All text is rendered in a pixelated font. The cross has a thick yellow center with a pink border. The background is split into two distinct color regions: black for the cross area and yellow for the text area.

Description

  • A static image with a yellow cross on black background and yellow text on yellow background.

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

Mood

  • neutral
  • mathematical

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow cross pink outline
  • 1 cross plus 3 nails equals 4GVN
  • pixelated text cross nails
  • yellow background black background cross
  • cross nails 4GVN
  • 1 cross plus 3 nails
  • yellow cross black background
  • 4GVN cross nails

Objects

  • cross
  • nails
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital

Subjects

  • cross
  • nails
  • text

Visible Text

  • 1 cross +
  • 3 nails =
  • 4GVN

Wordwall

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  • pink outline
  • black background
  • yellow background
  • 1 cross +
  • 3 nails =
  • 4GVN
  • pixelated text
  • thick yellow center
  • pink border
  • top-left quadrant
  • solid yellow background
  • text in pink
  • pixelated font
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:42 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20070729161617612955803
Archive entry
20070729161617612955803.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#20070729161617612955803.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070729161617612955803.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016