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Pixelated red shapes and yellow text on black background with gray rectangle on right.

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Pixelated red shapes and yellow text on black background with gray rectangle on right.

Pixelated red shapes and yellow text on black background with gray rectangle on right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Lat…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top border
  • bottom border
  • left border
  • right solid rectangle
  • text

Dense Caption

Red pixelated shapes form a border at top, bottom, and left of black background. Three yellow 'PauIW' texts appear in top row, two in middle row. Red pixelated shapes fill left side below top row. Gray rectangle occupies right side of image. Shapes include circles, squares, and irregular forms. Text is blocky, uppercase, and pixelated. Background is solid black. Gray rectangle is solid and rectangular.

Description

  • Pixelated red shapes and yellow text on black background with gray rectangle on 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated shapes yellow text black background
  • PauIW text gray rectangle
  • pixelated border yellow text
  • red shapes black background gray rectangle
  • PauIW text blocky yellow
  • red pixelated border black background
  • gray rectangle yellow text
  • PauIW pixelated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: text rows

Visible Text

  • PauIW

Wordwall

  • red pixelated shapes
  • yellow text
  • black background
  • gray rectangle
  • PauIW text
  • blocky text
  • pixelated border
  • solid gray rectangle
  • three 'PauIW' texts
  • two 'PauIW' texts
  • irregular red shapes
  • solid black background
  • rectangular gray area
  • top border
  • bottom border
  • left border
  • yellow blocky text
  • red circle shapes
  • red square shapes
  • red irregular shapes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201101080227181929577551
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d8/d8929093428624555f4a905593dbdb8c3db5b9b1a95e8731dc3bdd0d6bcd7141.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC
Archive ID
d892909342862455
SHA-256
d8929093428624555f4a905593dbdb8c3db5b9b1a95e8731dc3bdd0d6bcd7141
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:49 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.126388

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated red shapes and yellow text on black background with gray rectangle on right.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 21:56 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,188 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,166, response 712

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • top border
  • bottom border
  • left border
  • right solid rectangle
  • text

Dense Caption

Red pixelated shapes form a border at top, bottom, and left of black background. Three yellow 'PauIW' texts appear in top row, two in middle row. Red pixelated shapes fill left side below top row. Gray rectangle occupies right side of image. Shapes include circles, squares, and irregular forms. Text is blocky, uppercase, and pixelated. Background is solid black. Gray rectangle is solid and rectangular.

Description

  • Pixelated red shapes and yellow text on black background with gray rectangle on 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • PauIW text gray rectangle
  • pixelated border yellow text
  • red shapes black background gray rectangle
  • PauIW text blocky yellow
  • red pixelated border black background
  • gray rectangle yellow text
  • PauIW pixelated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: text rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • PauIW

Wordwall

  • red pixelated shapes
  • yellow text
  • black background
  • gray rectangle
  • PauIW text
  • blocky text
  • pixelated border
  • solid gray rectangle
  • three 'PauIW' texts
  • two 'PauIW' texts
  • irregular red shapes
  • solid black background
  • rectangular gray area
  • top border
  • bottom border
  • left border
  • yellow blocky text
  • red circle shapes
  • red square shapes
  • red irregular shapes
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 23:21 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
201101080227181929577551
Archive entry
201101080227181929577551.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 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#201101080227181929577551.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201101080227181929577551.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016