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Pixelated pink text on light blue polka dots over a solid pink background, with no visible animation changes.

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Pixelated pink text on light blue polka dots over a solid pink background, with no visible animation changes.

Pixelated pink text on light blue polka dots over a solid pink background, with no visible animation changes. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • repeating pattern

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel contains pixelated red-pink text reading "its me alex whats up" stacked vertically against a light blue polka dot pattern on a solid pink background. The text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. All four panels show no visible differences or motion changes between them.

Description

  • Pixelated pink text on light blue polka dots over a solid pink background, with no visible animation changes.

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
  • 200711191320071628433454

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink text blue dots pink background
  • alex whats up pixelated
  • four identical
  • its me alex whats up text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four identical panels 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • its me alex whats up

Wordwall

  • four identical
  • light blue polka dots
  • solid pink background
  • pixelated red-pink text
  • "its me alex whats up" text
  • blocky low-resolution font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711191320071628433454
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e9/e9ae83eed51c04a5588db9a0db771956ed6e726a9c5ec6553be9922304358ea8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 UTC
Archive ID
e9ae83eed51c04a5
SHA-256
e9ae83eed51c04a5588db9a0db771956ed6e726a9c5ec6553be9922304358ea8
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 20:22 UTC
Run
1222
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000052

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 27, 2026 at 09:14 UTC
Run
1196
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000550

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:59 UTC
Run
1140
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Overall label
nsfw
Overall score
0.639008

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated pink text on light blue polka dots over a solid pink background, with no visible animation changes.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 20:13 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,226 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 645

Review tags

  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • light blue

Composition

  • centered text
  • repeating pattern

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel contains pixelated red-pink text reading "its me alex whats up" stacked vertically against a light blue polka dot pattern on a solid pink background. The text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. All four panels show no visible differences or motion changes between them.

Description

  • Pixelated pink text on light blue polka dots over a solid pink background, with no visible animation changes.

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
  • 200711191320071628433454

Mood

  • playful
  • casual

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink text blue dots pink background
  • alex whats up pixelated
  • four identical
  • its me alex whats up text

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four identical panels 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • its me alex whats up

Wordwall

  • four identical
  • light blue polka dots
  • solid pink background
  • pixelated red-pink text
  • "its me alex whats up" text
  • blocky low-resolution font
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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
200711191320071628433454
Archive entry
200711191320071628433454.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 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#200711191320071628433454.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711191320071628433454.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016