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Pixelated blue and cyan checkered background with four instances of the text 'joey' in white lowercase letters.

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Pixelated blue and cyan checkered background with four instances of the text 'joey' in white lowercase letters.

Pixelated blue and cyan checkered background with four instances of the text 'joey' in white lowercase letters. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four text placements
  • checkerboard background
  • diamond-shaped
  • alternating color scheme

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated pattern composed of alternating dark blue and light cyan squares forming a checkerboard. Four distinct regions contain the word 'joey' rendered in white, low-resolution, lowercase font: top-left quadrant (light cyan square), top-right quadrant (dark blue square), bottom-left quadrant (light cyan diamond shape), and bottom-right quadrant (dark blue square). The pattern transitions from standard squares to rotated diamonds across the image. All text is consistently styled with rounded pixel edges.

Description

  • Pixelated blue and cyan checkered background with four instances of the text 'joey' in white lowercase letters.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four joey text
  • pixelated blue cyan checkered
  • white lowercase joey
  • rotated pattern

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: diamond-shaped tiles
  • quarantined style: rotated tile layout
  • quarantined composition: diamond-shaped tiles
  • quarantined retrieval: rotated tile pattern

Visible Text

  • joey

Visually Supported Entities

  • joey

Wordwall

  • four instances of 'joey'
  • white lowercase text
  • pixelated font
  • checkerboard background
  • alternating dark blue light cyan
  • diamond-shaped
  • rotated square pattern

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709091404221206325276
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e5/e5a3dbc48f380a72b955ced80c5e784562d84fb9e532e7fcf8fa6676a8281565.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC
Archive ID
e5a3dbc48f380a72
SHA-256
e5a3dbc48f380a72b955ced80c5e784562d84fb9e532e7fcf8fa6676a8281565
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:56 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.183741

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.917517onnx/unsafe0.183741onnx/nsfw0.142728onnx/nsfl0.041013
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Pixelated blue and cyan checkered background with four instances of the text 'joey' in white lowercase letters.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 00:45 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,731 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 604

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • checkerboard pattern (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • rotated layout (style, 0.80)
  • text joey (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark blue
  • light cyan
  • white

Composition

  • four text placements
  • checkerboard background
  • diamond-shaped
  • alternating color scheme

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated pattern composed of alternating dark blue and light cyan squares forming a checkerboard. Four distinct regions contain the word 'joey' rendered in white, low-resolution, lowercase font: top-left quadrant (light cyan square), top-right quadrant (dark blue square), bottom-left quadrant (light cyan diamond shape), and bottom-right quadrant (dark blue square). The pattern transitions from standard squares to rotated diamonds across the image. All text is consistently styled with rounded pixel edges.

Description

  • Pixelated blue and cyan checkered background with four instances of the text 'joey' in white lowercase letters.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four joey text
  • pixelated blue cyan checkered
  • white lowercase joey
  • rotated pattern

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: diamond-shaped tiles
  • quarantined style: rotated tile layout
  • quarantined composition: diamond-shaped tiles
  • quarantined retrieval: rotated tile pattern

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • checkerboard pattern
  • rotated layout

Subjects

  • text 'joey'

Visible Text

  • joey

Visually Supported Entities

  • joey

Wordwall

  • four instances of 'joey'
  • white lowercase text
  • pixelated font
  • checkerboard background
  • alternating dark blue light cyan
  • diamond-shaped
  • rotated square pattern
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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
200709091404221206325276
Archive entry
200709091404221206325276.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 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#200709091404221206325276.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709091404221206325276.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016