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Pixelated blue text on cyan background with yellow horizontal bars appearing in different positions across four views.

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Pixelated blue text on cyan background with yellow horizontal bars appearing in different positions across four views.

Pixelated blue text on cyan background with yellow horizontal bars appearing in different positions across four views. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Color

Source terms

Animation

  • yellow bars move between positions

Animation Summary

  • Yellow horizontal bars shift between top and bottom positions relative to the text across four views.

Composition

  • four views
  • horizontal bars
  • text on background

Dense Caption

Four views of a pixelated graphic with blue text reading "I like to boxstep" on a cyan background. Yellow horizontal bars appear in different positions: top-right view has a bar above the text, bottom-left view has a bar below the text, bottom-right view has a bar below the text, and top-left view has no bar. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics. The yellow bars are solid, opaque rectangles. The cyan background is uniform and solid.

Description

  • Pixelated blue text on cyan background with yellow horizontal bars appearing in different positions across four views.

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

  • cyan background blue text yellow bars
  • pixelated boxstep text
  • four views yellow bar positions
  • blocky text cyan background

Visible Text

  • I like to boxstep

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • blue text
  • yellow bars
  • pixelated
  • I like to boxstep
  • four views
  • horizontal bars
  • solid color
  • blocky text
  • low-resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070805195308340255341
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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/d9/d92e2a236ac656ae60fd0acc324d7e68f472b25348370999f81ca0707425a15a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
d92e2a236ac656ae
SHA-256
d92e2a236ac656ae60fd0acc324d7e68f472b25348370999f81ca0707425a15a
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 25, 2026 at 19:38 UTC
Run
1343
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000036

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.000036falseharassment0.000020falseviolence0.000018falseillicit0.000011falseself-harm0.000007falseillicit/violent0.000005falseviolence/graphic0.000004falseself-harm/intent0.000003falseharassment/threatening0.000003falsehate0.000002falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falsesexual/minors0.000001falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 11, 2026 at 15:18 UTC
Run
1284
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001181

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.001181falseself-harm0.000475falseself-harm/intent0.000212falsesexual0.000178falseviolence/graphic0.000019falseself-harm/instructions0.000003falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:50 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.125090

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.882349onnx/unsafe0.125090onnx/nsfw0.090508onnx/nsfl0.034582
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated blue text on cyan background with yellow horizontal bars appearing in different positions across four views.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:29 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,581 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 676

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • yellow bars move between positions (other, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • yellow bars move between positions

Animation Summary

  • Yellow horizontal bars shift between top and bottom positions relative to the text across four views.

Colors

  • cyan
  • blue
  • yellow

Composition

  • four views
  • horizontal bars
  • text on background

Dense Caption

Four views of a pixelated graphic with blue text reading "I like to boxstep" on a cyan background. Yellow horizontal bars appear in different positions: top-right view has a bar above the text, bottom-left view has a bar below the text, bottom-right view has a bar below the text, and top-left view has no bar. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics. The yellow bars are solid, opaque rectangles. The cyan background is uniform and solid.

Description

  • Pixelated blue text on cyan background with yellow horizontal bars appearing in different positions across four views.

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

  • cyan background blue text yellow bars
  • pixelated boxstep text
  • four views yellow bar positions
  • blocky text cyan background

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • I like to boxstep

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • blue text
  • yellow bars
  • pixelated
  • I like to boxstep
  • four views
  • horizontal bars
  • solid color
  • blocky text
  • low-resolution
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:31 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)
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
20070805195308340255341
Archive entry
20070805195308340255341.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#20070805195308340255341.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070805195308340255341.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016