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Pixelated text reads "Firm not Mushy" in purple letters on black rectangular backgrounds against a white backdrop with gray pixel clusters.

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Pixelated text reads "Firm not Mushy" in purple letters on black rectangular backgrounds against a white backdrop with gray pixel clusters.

Pixelated text reads "Firm not Mushy" in purple letters on black rectangular backgrounds against a white backdrop with gray pixel clusters. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three-line vertical text arrangement
  • text centered horizontally
  • background with scattered gray clusters

Dense Caption

The image displays three lines of pixelated text: the top line shows "Firm" in purple, the middle line shows "not" in purple, and the bottom line shows "Mushy" in purple. Each word is set on a separate black rectangular background. The overall background is white with scattered gray pixel clusters resembling noise or static. All text uses a blocky, low-resolution font style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads "Firm not Mushy" in purple letters on black rectangular backgrounds against a white backdrop with gray pixel clusters.

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
  • 200805081655331897007746

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Firm not Mushy
  • purple text on black rectangles
  • pixelated retro digital text
  • white background with gray clusters

Visible Text

  • Firm
  • not
  • Mushy

Wordwall

  • text: Firm
  • text: not
  • text: Mushy
  • font: blocky pixelated
  • background: white
  • background: gray pixel clusters
  • color: purple
  • color: black
  • style: retro digital

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805081655331897007746
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/da/dab8627d9cc376943cc39d9a11dba649f3b3a4e782c82edaab2ffbd97a6ac0b0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC
Archive ID
dab8627d9cc37694
SHA-256
dab8627d9cc376943cc39d9a11dba649f3b3a4e782c82edaab2ffbd97a6ac0b0
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:51 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.119846

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text reads "Firm not Mushy" in purple letters on black rectangular backgrounds against a white backdrop with gray pixel clusters.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 13:16 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,803 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 646

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
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  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • three-line vertical text arrangement
  • text centered horizontally
  • background with scattered gray clusters

Dense Caption

The image displays three lines of pixelated text: the top line shows "Firm" in purple, the middle line shows "not" in purple, and the bottom line shows "Mushy" in purple. Each word is set on a separate black rectangular background. The overall background is white with scattered gray pixel clusters resembling noise or static. All text uses a blocky, low-resolution font style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads "Firm not Mushy" in purple letters on black rectangular backgrounds against a white backdrop with gray pixel clusters.

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
  • 200805081655331897007746

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Firm not Mushy
  • purple text on black rectangles
  • pixelated retro digital text
  • white background with gray clusters

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • Firm
  • not
  • Mushy

Wordwall

  • text: Firm
  • text: not
  • text: Mushy
  • font: blocky pixelated
  • background: white
  • background: gray pixel clusters
  • color: purple
  • color: black
  • style: retro digital
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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
200805081655331897007746
Archive entry
200805081655331897007746.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 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#200805081655331897007746.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805081655331897007746.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016