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Pixelated text and symbols on a checkered background with alternating pink and yellow squares.

Pixelated text and symbols on a checkered background with alternating pink and yellow squares. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical arrangement
  • checkerboard background (left)
  • distorted shapes (right)

Dense Caption

The image displays two identical vertical arrangements of pixelated blue text: '!!!', 'INNIT', '!!!', 'THO', '!!!' repeated twice. The background alternates between solid pink and yellow squares in a checkerboard pattern on the left side, while the right side features distorted, overlapping yellow shapes against a pink backdrop. Text elements are rendered with blocky, low-resolution pixels typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on a checkered background with alternating pink and yellow 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200801031408061511497867

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue text innit tho
  • pink yellow checkerboard
  • pixelated !!! innit thon
  • low resolution blue text

Visible Text

  • !!!
  • INNIT
  • THO

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • !!! symbols
  • INNIT words
  • THO words
  • pink background
  • yellow squares
  • checkerboard pattern
  • distorted shapes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801031408061511497867
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC
Archive ID
edb8cff11faa5d4d
SHA-256
edb8cff11faa5d4d0cb70a20c9bf5ae15c595139c77d0af8b7f268b9e70951f3
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:01 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.273703

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and symbols on a checkered background with alternating pink and yellow squares.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 07:19 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,945 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 644

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • yellow
  • blue

Composition

  • vertical arrangement
  • checkerboard background (left)
  • distorted shapes (right)

Dense Caption

The image displays two identical vertical arrangements of pixelated blue text: '!!!', 'INNIT', '!!!', 'THO', '!!!' repeated twice. The background alternates between solid pink and yellow squares in a checkerboard pattern on the left side, while the right side features distorted, overlapping yellow shapes against a pink backdrop. Text elements are rendered with blocky, low-resolution pixels typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on a checkered background with alternating pink and yellow 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200801031408061511497867

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue text innit tho
  • pink yellow checkerboard
  • pixelated !!! innit thon
  • low resolution blue text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky text

Visible Text

  • !!!
  • INNIT
  • THO

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • !!! symbols
  • INNIT words
  • THO words
  • pink background
  • yellow squares
  • checkerboard pattern
  • distorted shapes
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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
200801031408061511497867
Archive entry
200801031408061511497867.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 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#200801031408061511497867.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801031408061511497867.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016