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Blue background with black text reading "LOWER THAN LOWES!" arranged in a pattern across multiple white rectangular sections

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Blue background with black text reading "LOWER THAN LOWES!" arranged in a pattern across multiple white rectangular sections

Blue background with black text reading "LOWER THAN LOWES!" arranged in a pattern across multiple white rectangular sections. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Source terms

Composition

  • six sections of text on blue background
  • alternating white rectangles and blue space
  • text arranged in three lines per section

Dense Caption

The image displays a blue background with black pixelated text reading "LOWER THAN LOWES!" arranged in six distinct sections. Each section contains the same three-line text: "LOWER", "THAN", and "LOWES!". The sections are positioned within white rectangular areas that vary in placement across the grid, creating an alternating pattern of blue background and white rectangles. The text is rendered in a blocky, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Blue background with black text reading "LOWER THAN LOWES!" arranged in a pattern across multiple white rectangular sections

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080201060001487664870

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background black text lower than lowes
  • pixelated text white rectangles
  • lower than lowes blue background six sections
  • text arrangement three lines per section

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with black text reading "LOWER THAN LOWES!" arranged in a grid pattern across multiple white rectangular sections.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid layout white rectangles

Visible Text

  • LOWER
  • THAN
  • LOWES!

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • black text
  • "LOWER THAN LOWES!"
  • pixelated font
  • white rectangular sections
  • arrangement
  • six distinct text sections

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080201060001487664870
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
659 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC
Archive ID
dd4fefb6f94fedfa
SHA-256
dd4fefb6f94fedfa796765bdd4062170e26b3360b46ded144f2eb882e09251b9
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:52 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.102510

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with black text reading "LOWER THAN LOWES!" arranged in a pattern across multiple white rectangular sections

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 14:05 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,439 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,161, response 698

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • six sections of text on blue background
  • alternating white rectangles and blue space
  • text arranged in three lines per section

Dense Caption

The image displays a blue background with black pixelated text reading "LOWER THAN LOWES!" arranged in six distinct sections. Each section contains the same three-line text: "LOWER", "THAN", and "LOWES!". The sections are positioned within white rectangular areas that vary in placement across the grid, creating an alternating pattern of blue background and white rectangles. The text is rendered in a blocky, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Blue background with black text reading "LOWER THAN LOWES!" arranged in a pattern across multiple white rectangular sections

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080201060001487664870

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background black text lower than lowes
  • pixelated text white rectangles
  • lower than lowes blue background six sections
  • text arrangement three lines per section

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with black text reading "LOWER THAN LOWES!" arranged in a grid pattern across multiple white rectangular sections.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid layout white rectangles

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text

Visible Text

  • LOWER
  • THAN
  • LOWES!

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • black text
  • "LOWER THAN LOWES!"
  • pixelated font
  • white rectangular sections
  • arrangement
  • six distinct text sections
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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
20080201060001487664870
Archive entry
20080201060001487664870.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 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#20080201060001487664870.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080201060001487664870.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016