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Pixelated static image showing partial text 'obous' in dark gray letters on light gray background with vertical blue lines.

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Pixelated static image showing partial text 'obous' in dark gray letters on light gray background with vertical blue lines.

Pixelated static image showing partial text 'obous' in dark gray letters on light gray background with vertical blue lines. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal text
  • vertical lines
  • asymmetrical clusters

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image with low-resolution rendering. Central horizontal text fragment 'obous' in dark gray, pixelated sans-serif font. Background is light gray with subtle pixel noise. Two vertical blue lines intersect the text horizontally. Lower-left corner has dark pixel cluster; lower-right corner has brownish pixel cluster. No visible motion or animation. Text is partially obscured by vertical lines. Pixelation suggests low-resolution source or intentional retro effect.

Description

  • Pixelated static image showing partial text 'obous' in dark gray letters on light gray background with vertical blue lines.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text obous
  • blue lines light gray background
  • dark gray text brown cluster
  • low-resolution buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation suggests low-resolution source or intentional retro effect

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • obous

Wordwall

  • partial text 'obous'
  • dark gray text
  • light gray background
  • vertical blue lines
  • pixelated rendering
  • lower-left dark cluster
  • lower-right brown cluster

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070809205146236446085
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/db/db02ea495f0d5e2631cfcbb5e1d6fa46ea7783a57b5f60d16bb4d1cfde53c78a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
db02ea495f0d5e26
SHA-256
db02ea495f0d5e2631cfcbb5e1d6fa46ea7783a57b5f60d16bb4d1cfde53c78a
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
0.092212

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.907788onnx/unsafe0.092212onnx/nsfw0.050938onnx/nsfl0.041274
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated static image showing partial text 'obous' in dark gray letters on light gray background with vertical blue lines.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 21:35 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,906 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 717

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • sans serif text (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • light gray
  • dark gray
  • blue
  • brown

Composition

  • horizontal text
  • vertical lines
  • asymmetrical clusters

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image with low-resolution rendering. Central horizontal text fragment 'obous' in dark gray, pixelated sans-serif font. Background is light gray with subtle pixel noise. Two vertical blue lines intersect the text horizontally. Lower-left corner has dark pixel cluster; lower-right corner has brownish pixel cluster. No visible motion or animation. Text is partially obscured by vertical lines. Pixelation suggests low-resolution source or intentional retro effect.

Description

  • Pixelated static image showing partial text 'obous' in dark gray letters on light gray background with vertical blue lines.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text obous
  • blue lines light gray background
  • dark gray text brown cluster
  • low-resolution buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation suggests low-resolution source or intentional retro effect

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • sans-serif text

Visible Text

  • obous

Wordwall

  • partial text 'obous'
  • dark gray text
  • light gray background
  • vertical blue lines
  • pixelated rendering
  • lower-left dark cluster
  • lower-right brown cluster
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:05 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
20070809205146236446085
Archive entry
20070809205146236446085.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#20070809205146236446085.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070809205146236446085.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016