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Yellow pixelated text on purple background reads 'you get The Best of Both Words' with slight variations across four

Yellow pixelated text on purple background reads 'you get The Best of Both Words' with slight variations across four. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Source terms

Animation

  • top-right and bottom-right show partial 'Both' with missing strokes compared to top-left and bottom-left full 'Both'

Animation Summary

Text layout remains consistent across all four ; only the rightmost stroke of 'Both' is missing in top-right and leftmost stroke is missing in bottom-right compared to full 'Both' in other two

Composition

  • centered text
  • uniform size

Dense Caption

Four identical 3x3 grid panels display yellow pixelated text on solid purple background. Text reads: 'you get', 'The Best', 'of Both', 'Words'. Top-left panel shows full word 'Both'; top-right has partial 'Both' with missing rightmost vertical stroke; bottom-left shows full 'Both'; bottom-right displays partial 'Both' with missing leftmost vertical stroke. All panels share identical text layout and color scheme.

Description

  • Yellow pixelated text on purple background reads 'you get The Best of Both Words' with slight variations across four

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow pixelated text purple background
  • both words typo variation
  • text-based buddy icon 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com shared buddy icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected; consistent pixel density across all four panels
  • quarantined description: Yellow pixelated text on purple background reads 'you get The Best of Both Words' with slight variations across four panels.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Text layout remains consistent across all four panels; only the rightmost stroke of 'Both' is missing in top-right panel and leftmost stroke is missing in bottom-right panel compared to full 'Both' in other two panels.
  • quarantined wordwall: bottom-right panel partial 'Both' missing left stroke
  • quarantined wordwall: bottom-left panel full 'Both'
  • quarantined wordwall: top-right panel partial 'Both' missing right stroke
  • quarantined wordwall: top-left panel full 'Both'
  • quarantined wordwall: four 3x3 grid panels
  • quarantined composition: uniform panel size
  • quarantined composition: 3x3 grid layout
  • quarantined animation: top-right and bottom-right panels show partial 'Both' with missing strokes compared to top-left and bottom-left full 'Both' panels

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative gallery metadata
  • provenance era: 2007-2016 is not confirmed by image pixels
  • collection identity franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016 is not confirmed by image pixels

Visible Text

  • you get
  • The Best
  • of Both
  • Words

Visually Supported Entities

  • text-based icon with 'Both' variations

Wordwall

  • yellow pixelated text
  • solid purple background
  • four
  • text reads you get The Best of Both Words
  • top-left full 'Both'
  • top-right partial 'Both' missing right stroke
  • bottom-left full 'Both'
  • bottom-right partial 'Both' missing left stroke

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711091433381722831584
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f1/f16808b39daf5581a61fd45b557f7ddc78be70c046202e47b5d0a845e50a7917.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC
Archive ID
f16808b39daf5581
SHA-256
f16808b39daf5581a61fd45b557f7ddc78be70c046202e47b5d0a845e50a7917
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:03 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.242696

OpenAI category scores

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Yellow pixelated text on purple background reads 'you get The Best of Both Words' with slight variations across four

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 16:30 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,418 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 794

Review tags

  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • top-right and bottom-right show partial 'Both' with missing strokes compared to top-left and bottom-left full 'Both'

Animation Summary

Text layout remains consistent across all four ; only the rightmost stroke of 'Both' is missing in top-right and leftmost stroke is missing in bottom-right compared to full 'Both' in other two

Colors

  • yellow
  • purple

Composition

  • centered text
  • uniform size

Dense Caption

Four identical 3x3 grid panels display yellow pixelated text on solid purple background. Text reads: 'you get', 'The Best', 'of Both', 'Words'. Top-left panel shows full word 'Both'; top-right has partial 'Both' with missing rightmost vertical stroke; bottom-left shows full 'Both'; bottom-right displays partial 'Both' with missing leftmost vertical stroke. All panels share identical text layout and color scheme.

Description

  • Yellow pixelated text on purple background reads 'you get The Best of Both Words' with slight variations across four

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow pixelated text purple background
  • both words typo variation
  • text-based buddy icon 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com shared buddy icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected; consistent pixel density across all four panels
  • quarantined description: Yellow pixelated text on purple background reads 'you get The Best of Both Words' with slight variations across four panels.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Text layout remains consistent across all four panels; only the rightmost stroke of 'Both' is missing in top-right panel and leftmost stroke is missing in bottom-right panel compared to full 'Both' in other two panels.
  • quarantined wordwall: bottom-right panel partial 'Both' missing left stroke
  • quarantined wordwall: bottom-left panel full 'Both'
  • quarantined wordwall: top-right panel partial 'Both' missing right stroke
  • quarantined wordwall: top-left panel full 'Both'
  • quarantined wordwall: four 3x3 grid panels
  • quarantined composition: uniform panel size
  • quarantined composition: 3x3 grid layout
  • quarantined animation: top-right and bottom-right panels show partial 'Both' with missing strokes compared to top-left and bottom-left full 'Both' panels

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative gallery metadata
  • provenance era: 2007-2016 is not confirmed by image pixels
  • collection identity franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016 is not confirmed by image pixels

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • you get
  • The Best
  • of Both
  • Words

Visually Supported Entities

  • text-based icon with 'Both' variations

Wordwall

  • yellow pixelated text
  • solid purple background
  • four
  • text reads you get The Best of Both Words
  • top-left full 'Both'
  • top-right partial 'Both' missing right stroke
  • bottom-left full 'Both'
  • bottom-right partial 'Both' missing left stroke
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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
200711091433381722831584
Archive entry
200711091433381722831584.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 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#200711091433381722831584.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711091433381722831584.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016