Permanent icon record
Four identical yellow text labels reading 'Karen' appear on a grayscale pixel background with varying black, white, and gray squares
Four identical yellow text labels reading 'Karen' appear on a grayscale pixel background with varying black, white, and gray squares. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…
Source & archive date
- Added to archive
- July 12, 2026
Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
- Source title
- 20090907192108241944710
- Era
- Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
- Observed
- July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Technical archive details
- Format
- GIF
- Dimensions
- 48×48 pixels
- File size
- 2.6 KB
- Motion
- Animated (4 frames)
- Added to archive
- July 12, 2026
- Relative path
- icons/e5/e5e4b2a49c01e4b18891103884001449fce37023eb5029e5a3e9a889549f9654.gif
- Media type
- image/gif
- Scanner metadata
- v1
- Animation inspected
- July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
- Archive ID
- e5e4b2a49c01e4b1
- SHA-256
- e5e4b2a49c01e4b18891103884001449fce37023eb5029e5a3e9a889549f9654
Content-safety assessments (3)
- Assessed
- August 19, 2026 at 23:17 UTC
- Run
- 1315
- Input
- image+text
- Preprocessing
- contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
- Overall label
- not-flagged
- Overall score
- 0.000729
OpenAI category scores
- Assessed
- July 30, 2026 at 17:52 UTC
- Run
- 1249
- Input
- image+text
- Preprocessing
- contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
- Overall label
- not-flagged
- Overall score
- 0.001212
OpenAI category scores
- Assessed
- July 23, 2026 at 19:57 UTC
- Run
- 1140
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
- Overall label
- sfw
- Overall score
- 0.460570
OpenAI category scores
Enrichment records (1)
Four identical yellow text labels reading 'Karen' appear on a grayscale pixel background with varying black, white, and gray squares
- Reviewed
- August 19, 2026 at 17:38 UTC
- Run
- 61
- Version
- v5
- Elapsed
- 7,018 ms
- Tokens
- prompt 2,113, response 644
Review tags
- black (color, 0.80)
- gray (color, 0.80)
- white (color, 0.80)
- yellow (color, 0.80)
- blocky font (style, 0.80)
- grayscale background (style, 0.80)
- pixel art (style, 0.80)
- karen text labels (subject, 0.80)
Colors
- yellow
- black
- white
- gray
Composition
- text positioned at four corners of
Dense Caption
The image consists of a 16x16 pixel grid composed of black, white, and various shades of gray squares. Four distinct instances of the word 'Karen' are rendered in bright yellow blocky text: one positioned top-left (row 2, column 3), one top-right (row 2, column 14), one bottom-left (row 10, column 3), and one bottom-right (row 10, column 14). Each 'Karen' label uses a consistent pixelated font style with no additional visual elements or decorations. The background features an irregular pattern of grayscale pixels without any discernible shapes beyond the text labels.
Description
- Four identical yellow text labels reading 'Karen' appear on a grayscale pixel background with varying black, white, and gray squares
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 Karen text labels
- yellow blocky text grayscale
- pixel art Karen
- Karen top-left bottom-right
Preprocessing Notes
- quarantined description: Four identical yellow text labels reading 'Karen' appear on a grayscale pixel grid background with varying black, white, and gray squares.
- quarantined wordwall: 16x16 dimensions
- quarantined wordwall: grayscale pixel grid
- quarantined composition: text positioned at four corners of grid
- quarantined retrieval: 16x16 pixel art Karen
- quarantined retrieval: yellow blocky text grayscale grid
Style
- pixel art
- blocky font
- grayscale background
Subjects
- 'Karen' text labels
Visible Text
- Karen
Visually Supported Entities
- Karen
Wordwall
- four instances of 'Karen'
- yellow blocky text
- grayscale pixel
- dimensions
- black white gray squares
- text positioned top-left
- text positioned top-right
- text positioned bottom-left
- text positioned bottom-right
Raw JSON
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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
- 20090907192108241944710
- Archive entry
- 20090907192108241944710.gif
- Observed
- July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#20090907192108241944710.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090907192108241944710.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016