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Static digital image with repeated text patterns on a black background, featuring white and yellow pixelated text and scattered yellow dots.

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Static digital image with repeated text patterns on a black background, featuring white and yellow pixelated text and scattered yellow dots.

Static digital image with repeated text patterns on a black background, featuring white and yellow pixelated text and scattered yellow dots. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Source terms

Composition

  • text
  • four
  • scattered dots
  • gray rectangle

Dense Caption

The image displays a static digital composition with a black background. White pixelated text repeats in horizontal rows: 'quit staring', 'at computer', 'tilting your', 'head', 'retard'. Yellow pixelated dots are scattered throughout the text rows. The text is arranged in a grid-like pattern with four columns of text. A solid gray rectangular area appears in the bottom-right corner. The text uses a monospaced font style typical of early digital displays. The image contains no visible animation or motion changes.

Description

  • Static digital image with repeated text patterns on a black background, featuring white and yellow pixelated text and scattered yellow dots.

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

  • quit staring at computer tilting your head retard
  • pixelated text
  • yellow dots black background
  • repeated text patterns

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four columns of text
  • quarantined wordwall: grid-like text arrangement
  • quarantined style: grid-like
  • quarantined composition: four columns
  • quarantined composition: text rows
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid

Visible Text

  • quit staring
  • at computer
  • tilting your
  • head
  • retard

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • yellow pixelated dots
  • repeated text patterns
  • monospaced font
  • like text arrangement
  • four of text
  • gray rectangular area
  • scattered yellow dots
  • static digital image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090609094901421446928
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
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e0/e0fafe919b746b20c857bf80407148a0c6e2314af3b84487d7b8b16f5a3ae3b8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
e0fafe919b746b20
SHA-256
e0fafe919b746b20c857bf80407148a0c6e2314af3b84487d7b8b16f5a3ae3b8
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
0.080500

OpenAI category scores

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Static digital image with repeated text patterns on a black background, featuring white and yellow pixelated text and scattered yellow dots.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 11:50 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,648 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,123, response 698

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • like (style, 0.80)
  • monospaced (style, 0.80)
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  • repetitive (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • yellow
  • gray

Composition

  • text
  • four
  • scattered dots
  • gray rectangle

Dense Caption

The image displays a static digital composition with a black background. White pixelated text repeats in horizontal rows: 'quit staring', 'at computer', 'tilting your', 'head', 'retard'. Yellow pixelated dots are scattered throughout the text rows. The text is arranged in a grid-like pattern with four columns of text. A solid gray rectangular area appears in the bottom-right corner. The text uses a monospaced font style typical of early digital displays. The image contains no visible animation or motion changes.

Description

  • Static digital image with repeated text patterns on a black background, featuring white and yellow pixelated text and scattered yellow dots.

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

  • quit staring at computer tilting your head retard
  • pixelated text
  • yellow dots black background
  • repeated text patterns

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four columns of text
  • quarantined wordwall: grid-like text arrangement
  • quarantined style: grid-like
  • quarantined composition: four columns
  • quarantined composition: text rows
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • monospaced
  • repetitive
  • like

Visible Text

  • quit staring
  • at computer
  • tilting your
  • head
  • retard

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • yellow pixelated dots
  • repeated text patterns
  • monospaced font
  • like text arrangement
  • four of text
  • gray rectangular area
  • scattered yellow dots
  • static digital image
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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
20090609094901421446928
Archive entry
20090609094901421446928.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#20090609094901421446928.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090609094901421446928.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016