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Red background with yellow pixelated patterns and repeated 'your gay' text in black, featuring alternating horizontal lines and checkerboard sections.

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Red background with yellow pixelated patterns and repeated 'your gay' text in black, featuring alternating horizontal lines and checkerboard sections.

Red background with yellow pixelated patterns and repeated 'your gay' text in black, featuring alternating horizontal lines and checkerboard sections. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal dashed lines section
  • checkerboard pattern section
  • text repeated across all sections

Dense Caption

The image displays a red background overlaid with multiple repeating patterns of yellow pixels. The top section contains horizontal dashed lines composed of short yellow rectangles on the red field. Below this, there is a central checkerboard pattern made from alternating solid yellow squares and red squares. In all visible areas, the text 'your gay' appears in black pixelated font, repeated across the entire image. The patterns alternate between the dashed line section and the checkerboard section, creating a grid-like arrangement of these elements.

Description

Red background with yellow pixelated patterns and repeated 'your gay' text in black, featuring alternating horizontal lines and checkerboard 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
  • 200809261709531341613806

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red yellow 'your gay' pixelated
  • 'your gay' repeated text
  • yellow dashed lines checkerboard red background
  • pixelated black text red background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined style: grid-like
  • quarantined retrieval: 'your gay' repeated text grid

Visible Text

  • your gay

Wordwall

  • red background
  • yellow pixelated patterns
  • repeated 'your gay' text
  • horizontal dashed lines
  • checkerboard pattern
  • black pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809261709531341613806
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (12 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/dd/ddc6bdb6a83af811f802f4b256e5a577895dad3353af78f8f2c87cb8ea8c23a6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
ddc6bdb6a83af811
SHA-256
ddc6bdb6a83af811f802f4b256e5a577895dad3353af78f8f2c87cb8ea8c23a6
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
0.112451

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Red background with yellow pixelated patterns and repeated 'your gay' text in black, featuring alternating horizontal lines and checkerboard sections.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 01:43 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,604 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,121, response 702

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • like (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • black

Composition

  • horizontal dashed lines section
  • checkerboard pattern section
  • text repeated across all sections

Dense Caption

The image displays a red background overlaid with multiple repeating patterns of yellow pixels. The top section contains horizontal dashed lines composed of short yellow rectangles on the red field. Below this, there is a central checkerboard pattern made from alternating solid yellow squares and red squares. In all visible areas, the text 'your gay' appears in black pixelated font, repeated across the entire image. The patterns alternate between the dashed line section and the checkerboard section, creating a grid-like arrangement of these elements.

Description

Red background with yellow pixelated patterns and repeated 'your gay' text in black, featuring alternating horizontal lines and checkerboard 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
  • 200809261709531341613806

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red yellow 'your gay' pixelated
  • 'your gay' repeated text
  • yellow dashed lines checkerboard red background
  • pixelated black text red background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined style: grid-like
  • quarantined retrieval: 'your gay' repeated text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • repetitive
  • like

Visible Text

  • your gay

Wordwall

  • red background
  • yellow pixelated patterns
  • repeated 'your gay' text
  • horizontal dashed lines
  • checkerboard pattern
  • black pixelated font
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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
200809261709531341613806
Archive entry
200809261709531341613806.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#200809261709531341613806.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809261709531341613806.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016