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A static image with four quadrants displaying red text on colored backgrounds: 'browns' and 'rule' in pixelated font.

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A static image with four quadrants displaying red text on colored backgrounds: 'browns' and 'rule' in pixelated font.

A static image with four quadrants displaying red text on colored backgrounds: 'browns' and 'rule' in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Source terms

Composition

  • text centered in each quadrant

Dense Caption

The image consists of a 2x2 grid layout. Top-left quadrant has bright yellow background with red pixelated text 'browns' above 'rule'. Top-right quadrant has teal background with identical red pixelated text 'browns' above 'rule'. Bottom-left quadrant has blue background with identical red pixelated text 'browns' above 'rule'. Bottom-right quadrant has muted greenish-blue background with identical red pixelated text 'browns' above 'rule'. All text uses a blocky, low-resolution font style. No additional visual elements or motion present.

Description

  • A static image with four quadrants displaying red text on colored backgrounds: 'browns' and 'rule' in pixelated font.

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
  • 200802191757361497355002

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • browns rule yellow teal blue greenish-blue
  • pixelated text
  • red text four quadrants
  • browns rule pixel font

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid layout

Visible Text

  • browns
  • rule

Wordwall

  • four quadrants
  • red pixelated text
  • 'browns'
  • 'rule'
  • bright yellow background
  • teal background
  • blue background
  • muted greenish-blue background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802191757361497355002
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e3/e3b7efdd82c54775968894d52dcf02d0d1649864de5c4140c8a54953ae55ceba.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Archive ID
e3b7efdd82c54775
SHA-256
e3b7efdd82c54775968894d52dcf02d0d1649864de5c4140c8a54953ae55ceba
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:49 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.123195

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.906783onnx/unsafe0.123195onnx/nsfw0.080806onnx/nsfl0.042388
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A static image with four quadrants displaying red text on colored backgrounds: 'browns' and 'rule' in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 00:32 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,149 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 698

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • greenish blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated font (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • teal
  • blue
  • greenish-blue

Composition

  • text centered in each quadrant

Dense Caption

The image consists of a 2x2 grid layout. Top-left quadrant has bright yellow background with red pixelated text 'browns' above 'rule'. Top-right quadrant has teal background with identical red pixelated text 'browns' above 'rule'. Bottom-left quadrant has blue background with identical red pixelated text 'browns' above 'rule'. Bottom-right quadrant has muted greenish-blue background with identical red pixelated text 'browns' above 'rule'. All text uses a blocky, low-resolution font style. No additional visual elements or motion present.

Description

  • A static image with four quadrants displaying red text on colored backgrounds: 'browns' and 'rule' in pixelated font.

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
  • 200802191757361497355002

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • browns rule yellow teal blue greenish-blue
  • pixelated text
  • red text four quadrants
  • browns rule pixel font

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid layout

Style

  • pixelated font
  • blocky text

Visible Text

  • browns
  • rule

Wordwall

  • four quadrants
  • red pixelated text
  • 'browns'
  • 'rule'
  • bright yellow background
  • teal background
  • blue background
  • muted greenish-blue background
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TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200802191757361497355002
Archive entry
200802191757361497355002.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 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#200802191757361497355002.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802191757361497355002.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016