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Blue background with purple text and blue plus symbols arranged in a pattern, displaying repeated phrases and punctuation

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all frames show identical static content with fixed text and symbols.

Composition

  • two
  • text and symbols
  • plus symbols placed around text elements

Dense Caption

The image shows a static composition of pixelated text on a solid cyan background. Purple text elements include 'That', 'was', and 'SMEXXX!' (with an X replacing the second E), each appearing multiple times across two columns. Blue plus symbols are scattered around the text, some positioned directly adjacent to letters. The text uses a blocky, low-resolution font style typical of early digital graphics. All visible elements remain fixed in place with no motion observed.

Description

  • Blue background with purple text and blue plus symbols arranged in a pattern, displaying repeated phrases and punctuation

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080104182923948477395

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background purple text blue plus symbols
  • pixelated 'That was SMEXXX!'
  • blocky font cyan blue purple color scheme
  • two- text layout plus symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; all observations show identical static content.
  • quarantined description: Blue background with purple text and blue plus symbols arranged in a grid pattern, displaying repeated phrases and punctuation.
  • quarantined wordwall: 'SMEXXX!' repeated twice per column
  • quarantined wordwall: 'was' repeated twice per column
  • quarantined wordwall: 'That' repeated twice per column
  • quarantined composition: text and symbols arranged in rows
  • quarantined composition: two-column grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: two-column text layout plus symbols
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated 'That was SMEXXX!' grid

Visible Text

  • That
  • was
  • SMEXXX!

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • purple pixelated text
  • blue plus symbols
  • 'That' repeated twice per
  • 'was' repeated twice per
  • 'SMEXXX!' repeated twice per
  • blocky low-resolution font style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080104182923948477395
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
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f3/f3d055224accb3f0cc84556ba87a3376e12719c7ae72d9ec03c00565230cba96.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC
Archive ID
f3d055224accb3f0
SHA-256
f3d055224accb3f0cc84556ba87a3376e12719c7ae72d9ec03c00565230cba96
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:04 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.430174

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with purple text and blue plus symbols arranged in a pattern, displaying repeated phrases and punctuation

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 07:43 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,026 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 646

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all frames show identical static content with fixed text and symbols.

Colors

  • cyan
  • purple
  • blue

Composition

  • two
  • text and symbols
  • plus symbols placed around text elements

Dense Caption

The image shows a static composition of pixelated text on a solid cyan background. Purple text elements include 'That', 'was', and 'SMEXXX!' (with an X replacing the second E), each appearing multiple times across two columns. Blue plus symbols are scattered around the text, some positioned directly adjacent to letters. The text uses a blocky, low-resolution font style typical of early digital graphics. All visible elements remain fixed in place with no motion observed.

Description

  • Blue background with purple text and blue plus symbols arranged in a pattern, displaying repeated phrases and punctuation

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080104182923948477395

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background purple text blue plus symbols
  • pixelated 'That was SMEXXX!'
  • blocky font cyan blue purple color scheme
  • two- text layout plus symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; all observations show identical static content.
  • quarantined description: Blue background with purple text and blue plus symbols arranged in a grid pattern, displaying repeated phrases and punctuation.
  • quarantined wordwall: 'SMEXXX!' repeated twice per column
  • quarantined wordwall: 'was' repeated twice per column
  • quarantined wordwall: 'That' repeated twice per column
  • quarantined composition: text and symbols arranged in rows
  • quarantined composition: two-column grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: two-column text layout plus symbols
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated 'That was SMEXXX!' grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • That
  • was
  • SMEXXX!

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • purple pixelated text
  • blue plus symbols
  • 'That' repeated twice per
  • 'was' repeated twice per
  • 'SMEXXX!' repeated twice per
  • blocky low-resolution font style
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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
20080104182923948477395
Archive entry
20080104182923948477395.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#20080104182923948477395.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080104182923948477395.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016