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Yellow and white checkered background with black pixelated text reading "Well this icon sucks..." in two identical vertical

Yellow and white checkered background with black pixelated text reading "Well this icon sucks..." in two identical vertical. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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About this icon

Animation

static
no visible content changes across observations

Animation Summary

static image with no visible content changes across observations

Composition

two identical vertical
text centered
checkered background

Dense Caption

Yellow and white checkered background with black pixelated text reading "Well this icon sucks..." in two identical vertical columns. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics. Each column contains four lines: "Well", "this", "icon", and "sucks...". The text appears static across all observed frames. The checkered pattern consists of alternating yellow and white squares. The text is centered within each column. The overall image has a retro digital aesthetic.

Description

Yellow and white checkered background with black pixelated text reading "Well this icon sucks..." in two identical vertical

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 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
20070726120433219428035

Metadata Supported By Image

provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

yellow checkered background
black pixelated text
two vertical
Well this icon sucks

Preprocessing Notes

no upscaling detected
no cropping observed
no matte present
quarantined description: Yellow and white checkered background with black pixelated text reading "Well this icon sucks..." in two identical vertical columns.
quarantined wordwall: four lines per column
quarantined wordwall: two identical vertical columns
quarantined composition: text centered within columns
quarantined composition: two identical vertical columns
quarantined retrieval: two vertical columns

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Visible Text

Well
this
icon
sucks...

Wordwall

yellow and white checkered background
black pixelated text
two identical vertical
text reads Well this icon sucks...
four lines per
blocky low-resolution style
retro digital aesthetic

Source & archive date

Added to archive: July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title: 20070726120433219428035
Era: Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed: July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details

Format: GIF
Dimensions: 48×48 pixels
File size: 2.1 KB
Motion: Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive: July 12, 2026
Relative path: icons/e2/e28254cdf409f6286c68177cffbe7a75f65252d28e95461115f4e5b9cdb73aa3.gif
Media type: image/gif
Scanner metadata: v1
Animation inspected: July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC
Archive ID: e28254cdf409f628
SHA-256: e28254cdf409f6286c68177cffbe7a75f65252d28e95461115f4e5b9cdb73aa3

Content-safety assessments (1)

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Assessed: July 23, 2026 at 19:55 UTC
Run: 1140
Input: image
Preprocessing: four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label: sfw
Overall score: 0.091268

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Yellow and white checkered background with black pixelated text reading "Well this icon sucks..." in two identical vertical

Reviewed: August 25, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Run: 69
Version: v5
Elapsed: 9,614 ms
Tokens: prompt 2,108, response 844

Animation

static
no visible content changes across observations

Animation Summary

static image with no visible content changes across observations

Colors

yellow
white
black

Composition

two identical vertical
text centered
checkered background

Dense Caption

Description

Yellow and white checkered background with black pixelated text reading "Well this icon sucks..." in two identical vertical

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 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
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Metadata Supported By Image

provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

dismissive
critical

Non Redundant Search Phrases

yellow checkered background
black pixelated text
two vertical
Well this icon sucks

Preprocessing Notes

no upscaling detected
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no matte present
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quarantined wordwall: four lines per column
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Source Metadata Interpretation

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provenance era: 2016
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provenance topic-coverage: humor

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Well
this
icon
sucks...

Wordwall

yellow and white checkered background
black pixelated text
two identical vertical
text reads Well this icon sucks...
four lines per
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror

Reviewed: July 27, 2026 at 09:20 UTC
Run: 52
Version: v5
Elapsed: 0 ms
Error: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)

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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: 20070726120433219428035
Archive entry: 20070726120433219428035.gif
Observed: July 12, 2026 at 14:34 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#20070726120433219428035.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070726120433219428035.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

Yellow and white checkered background with black pixelated text reading "Well this icon sucks..." in two identical vertical

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