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Green pixelated text and symbols on black background with scattered plus signs.

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Green pixelated text and symbols on black background with scattered plus signs.

Green pixelated text and symbols on black background with scattered plus signs. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes between observations

Composition

  • scattered elements

Dense Caption

Black background contains green pixelated text "JOE <3" repeated four times in a grid pattern. Green plus signs of varying sizes are scattered across the image, some forming small clusters near the text elements. The text appears identical in all instances without visible animation changes between observations. Pixelation is consistent with early digital display rendering.

Description

  • Green pixelated text and symbols on black background with scattered plus signs.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200805040607341610004224

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green pixelated JOE <3
  • black background plus signs
  • pixelated text
  • scattered green symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid

Visible Text

  • JOE <3

Wordwall

  • green pixelated text
  • black background
  • plus signs
  • JOE <3
  • pattern

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805040607341610004224
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
560 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d5/d5b888668a7d612212d40b40b8ce3b23d92470f72eae8b0c9d2fea5fca306160.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC
Archive ID
d5b888668a7d6122
SHA-256
d5b888668a7d612212d40b40b8ce3b23d92470f72eae8b0c9d2fea5fca306160
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:48 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079620

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Green pixelated text and symbols on black background with scattered plus signs.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 11:49 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,038 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 578

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • plus signs (object, 0.80)
  • digital (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes between observations

Colors

  • green
  • black

Composition

  • scattered elements

Dense Caption

Black background contains green pixelated text "JOE <3" repeated four times in a grid pattern. Green plus signs of varying sizes are scattered across the image, some forming small clusters near the text elements. The text appears identical in all instances without visible animation changes between observations. Pixelation is consistent with early digital display rendering.

Description

  • Green pixelated text and symbols on black background with scattered plus signs.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200805040607341610004224

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green pixelated JOE <3
  • black background plus signs
  • pixelated text
  • scattered green symbols

Objects

  • plus signs

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital

Subjects

  • text
  • symbols

Visible Text

  • JOE <3

Wordwall

  • green pixelated text
  • black background
  • plus signs
  • JOE <3
  • pattern
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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
200805040607341610004224
Archive entry
200805040607341610004224.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 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#200805040607341610004224.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805040607341610004224.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016