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Purple background with green and brown pixelated border, white text "hey whats up? =]" repeated in four quadrants.

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Purple background with green and brown pixelated border, white text "hey whats up? =]" repeated in four quadrants.

Purple background with green and brown pixelated border, white text "hey whats up? =]" repeated in four quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all identical across observations

Composition

  • arrangement
  • quadrant placement
  • border framing

Dense Caption

The image displays a static composition of four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid purple background. Each panel contains the text "hey" (white, lowercase), "whats" (white, lowercase), "up?" (white, lowercase with question mark), and "]=" (white, smiley face) stacked vertically. A border composed of alternating green and brown square pixels frames the entire image. The four panels are positioned in top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right quadrants without visible animation changes between observations.

Description

  • Purple background with green and brown pixelated border, white text "hey whats up? =]" repeated in four quadrants.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711120807321825134350
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background text smiley face
  • four white text
  • green brown border purple text
  • text based pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation observed; all panels identical across chronological observations.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation changes; all panels identical across observations.
  • quarantined wordwall: four identical panels
  • quarantined style: static grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 panel arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: text based pixel art grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid white text

Visible Text

  • hey
  • whats
  • up?
  • =]

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • green-brown pixelated border
  • four identical
  • white text "hey"
  • white text "whats"
  • white text "up?"
  • white smiley face "]="
  • stacked vertical text layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711120807321825134350
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:56 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
820 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/eb/ebfdafb4aa707fb3c58ac7e4d7518e58b9c1e1a7dfee6d59762668ef11936489.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:56 UTC
Archive ID
ebfdafb4aa707fb3
SHA-256
ebfdafb4aa707fb3c58ac7e4d7518e58b9c1e1a7dfee6d59762668ef11936489
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:00 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074562

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Purple background with green and brown pixelated border, white text "hey whats up? =]" repeated in four quadrants.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 17:37 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,102 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 617

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all identical across observations

Colors

  • purple
  • green
  • brown
  • white

Composition

  • arrangement
  • quadrant placement
  • border framing

Dense Caption

The image displays a static composition of four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid purple background. Each panel contains the text "hey" (white, lowercase), "whats" (white, lowercase), "up?" (white, lowercase with question mark), and "]=" (white, smiley face) stacked vertically. A border composed of alternating green and brown square pixels frames the entire image. The four panels are positioned in top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right quadrants without visible animation changes between observations.

Description

  • Purple background with green and brown pixelated border, white text "hey whats up? =]" repeated in four quadrants.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711120807321825134350
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Mood

  • casual
  • friendly

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background text smiley face
  • four white text
  • green brown border purple text
  • text based pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation observed; all panels identical across chronological observations.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation changes; all panels identical across observations.
  • quarantined wordwall: four identical panels
  • quarantined style: static grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 panel arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: text based pixel art grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid white text

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
  • static

Visible Text

  • hey
  • whats
  • up?
  • =]

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • green-brown pixelated border
  • four identical
  • white text "hey"
  • white text "whats"
  • white text "up?"
  • white smiley face "]="
  • stacked vertical text layout
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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
200711120807321825134350
Archive entry
200711120807321825134350.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:56 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#200711120807321825134350.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711120807321825134350.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016