Four identical yellow text labels reading 'Karen' appear on a grayscale pixel background with varying black, white, and gray squares

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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…

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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

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

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)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
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

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
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

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.001212falsesexual0.000814falseself-harm0.000459falseviolence/graphic0.000025falseself-harm/intent0.000006falseself-harm/instructions0.000003falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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

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Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

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
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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