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Four quadrants display the text "I'm flashy!" in pixelated black font against cyan, light blue, pink, and dark blue backgrounds.

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Four quadrants display the text "I'm flashy!" in pixelated black font against cyan, light blue, pink, and dark blue backgrounds.

Four quadrants display the text "I'm flashy!" in pixelated black font against cyan, light blue, pink, and dark blue backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Source terms

Composition

  • four equal
  • centered text in each

Dense Caption

The image consists of four equal-sized rectangular panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left panel: solid cyan background with centered pixelated black text reading "I'm flashy!". Top-right panel: solid light blue background with identical centered pixelated black text. Bottom-left panel: solid pink background with identical centered pixelated black text. Bottom-right panel: solid dark blue background with identical centered pixelated black text. All panels use the same font style and text content.

Description

  • Four quadrants display the text "I'm flashy!" in pixelated black font against cyan, light blue, pink, and dark blue backgrounds.

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
  • 20080105160630856699834

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan I'm flashy text
  • light blue I'm flashy text
  • pink I'm flashy text
  • dark blue I'm flashy text
  • four quadrant I'm flashy
  • pixelated I'm flashy text
  • I'm flashy

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: centered text in each panel
  • quarantined composition: four equal panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid I'm flashy

Visible Text

  • I'm flashy!

Wordwall

  • four quadrants
  • cyan background
  • light blue background
  • pink background
  • dark blue background
  • pixelated black text
  • "I'm flashy!" text
  • centered text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080105160630856699834
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
541 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/dd/ddb3de71aa924b3e4bed94e14e639211d0f572671eeed2d6137326c5f71af6d4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC
Archive ID
ddb3de71aa924b3e
SHA-256
ddb3de71aa924b3e4bed94e14e639211d0f572671eeed2d6137326c5f71af6d4
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
0.110240

OpenAI category scores

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Four quadrants display the text "I'm flashy!" in pixelated black font against cyan, light blue, pink, and dark blue backgrounds.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 08:01 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,856 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 695

Review tags

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  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • cyan
  • light blue
  • pink
  • dark blue
  • black

Composition

  • four equal
  • centered text in each

Dense Caption

The image consists of four equal-sized rectangular panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left panel: solid cyan background with centered pixelated black text reading "I'm flashy!". Top-right panel: solid light blue background with identical centered pixelated black text. Bottom-left panel: solid pink background with identical centered pixelated black text. Bottom-right panel: solid dark blue background with identical centered pixelated black text. All panels use the same font style and text content.

Description

  • Four quadrants display the text "I'm flashy!" in pixelated black font against cyan, light blue, pink, and dark blue backgrounds.

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
  • 20080105160630856699834

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan I'm flashy text
  • light blue I'm flashy text
  • pink I'm flashy text
  • dark blue I'm flashy text
  • four quadrant I'm flashy
  • pixelated I'm flashy text
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  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: centered text in each panel
  • quarantined composition: four equal panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid I'm flashy

Style

  • pixelated font
  • solid background colors

Visible Text

  • I'm flashy!

Wordwall

  • four quadrants
  • cyan background
  • light blue background
  • pink background
  • dark blue background
  • pixelated black text
  • "I'm flashy!" text
  • centered text
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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
20080105160630856699834
Archive entry
20080105160630856699834.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 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#20080105160630856699834.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080105160630856699834.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016