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Four identical white circular speech bubbles on cyan background, each containing black pixelated text reading "The war has begun. Who's side are you on?".

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Four identical white circular speech bubbles on cyan background, each containing black pixelated text reading "The war has begun. Who's side are you on?".

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • speech bubbles
  • centered text within each bubble

Dense Caption

Cyan background with four white circular speech bubbles arranged in a 2x2 grid; each bubble contains the same black pixelated text: "The war has begun. Who's side are you on?"; all bubbles have identical size and position relative to their grid cell; no visible animation changes between observations.

Description

Four identical white circular speech bubbles on cyan background, each containing black pixelated text reading "The war has begun. Who's side are you on?".

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200805031148562078219884

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background white speech bubbles text
  • four identical speech bubbles war has begun
  • pixelated urgent provocation text
  • cyan white black

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid of speech bubbles
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid cyan white black

Visible Text

  • The war has begun. Who's side are you on?

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • white speech bubbles
  • pixelated text
  • four identical bubbles
  • "The war has begun"
  • "Who's side are you on?"

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805031148562078219884
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 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 15:25 UTC
Archive ID
f30edd3e87c87a3b
SHA-256
f30edd3e87c87a3b98a7c74b4a1678dee6e95cba8561c317fb609c5b93b63474
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:04 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088586

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Four identical white circular speech bubbles on cyan background, each containing black pixelated text reading "The war has begun. Who's side are you on?".

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 11:30 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,544 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 636

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • provocative (mood, 0.80)
  • urgent (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • cyan
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • speech bubbles
  • centered text within each bubble

Dense Caption

Cyan background with four white circular speech bubbles arranged in a 2x2 grid; each bubble contains the same black pixelated text: "The war has begun. Who's side are you on?"; all bubbles have identical size and position relative to their grid cell; no visible animation changes between observations.

Description

Four identical white circular speech bubbles on cyan background, each containing black pixelated text reading "The war has begun. Who's side are you on?".

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200805031148562078219884

Mood

  • urgent
  • provocative

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background white speech bubbles text
  • four identical speech bubbles war has begun
  • pixelated urgent provocation text
  • cyan white black

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid of speech bubbles
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid cyan white black

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static

Visible Text

  • The war has begun. Who's side are you on?

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • white speech bubbles
  • pixelated text
  • four identical bubbles
  • "The war has begun"
  • "Who's side are you on?"
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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
200805031148562078219884
Archive entry
200805031148562078219884.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 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#200805031148562078219884.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805031148562078219884.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016