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Red background with pixelated text and black square patterns in four corners, showing repeated text elements and square arrangements.

Red background with pixelated text and black square patterns in four corners, showing repeated text elements and square arrangements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Source terms

Composition

  • four identical quadrants
  • text centered
  • square patterns in corners

Dense Caption

Red background with pixelated text reading "MiiStUh DrEw 6|17|09" in four identical quadrants. Each quadrant contains black square patterns in top-right and bottom-left corners: top-right has three squares (one large, two small) with dots, bottom-left has two squares (one large, one small) with dots. Square patterns differ between quadrants: top-right square arrangement is mirrored in bottom-left. Text is brown with green vertical bars separating date numbers. All four quadrants display identical text and square patterns.

Description

  • Red background with pixelated text and black square patterns in four corners, showing repeated text elements and square arrangements.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background pixelated text
  • MiiStUh DrEw 6|17|09
  • black square patterns
  • mirrored square arrangements
  • four identical quadrants
  • brown text green bars
  • text-based buddy icon
  • pixelated date format

Visible Text

  • MiiStUh
  • DrEw
  • 6|17|09

Wordwall

  • red background
  • pixelated text
  • MiiStUh DrEw
  • 6|17|09
  • black square patterns
  • top-right corner
  • bottom-left corner
  • three squares
  • two squares
  • dots
  • brown text
  • green vertical bars
  • identical quadrants
  • mirrored square arrangements

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090622143051606290517
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
e022a83b9ff4ba96
SHA-256
e022a83b9ff4ba96ee7dbe380fbbdf405bfa81ee0f9e2ba16302345171441d7e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:54 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.126170

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with pixelated text and black square patterns in four corners, showing repeated text elements and square arrangements.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 12:55 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,389 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 742

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
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  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • brown
  • green
  • black

Composition

  • four identical quadrants
  • text centered
  • square patterns in corners

Dense Caption

Red background with pixelated text reading "MiiStUh DrEw 6|17|09" in four identical quadrants. Each quadrant contains black square patterns in top-right and bottom-left corners: top-right has three squares (one large, two small) with dots, bottom-left has two squares (one large, one small) with dots. Square patterns differ between quadrants: top-right square arrangement is mirrored in bottom-left. Text is brown with green vertical bars separating date numbers. All four quadrants display identical text and square patterns.

Description

  • Red background with pixelated text and black square patterns in four corners, showing repeated text elements and square arrangements.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • MiiStUh DrEw 6|17|09
  • black square patterns
  • mirrored square arrangements
  • four identical quadrants
  • brown text green bars
  • text-based buddy icon
  • pixelated date format

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based
  • repetitive

Visible Text

  • MiiStUh
  • DrEw
  • 6|17|09

Wordwall

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  • MiiStUh DrEw
  • 6|17|09
  • black square patterns
  • top-right corner
  • bottom-left corner
  • three squares
  • two squares
  • dots
  • brown text
  • green vertical bars
  • identical quadrants
  • mirrored square arrangements
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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
20090622143051606290517
Archive entry
20090622143051606290517.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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#20090622143051606290517.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090622143051606290517.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016