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Static pixel art displays repeated text in white block letters on black background with visible character corruption.

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Static pixel art displays repeated text in white block letters on black background with visible character corruption.

Static pixel art displays repeated text in white block letters on black background with visible character corruption. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical repetition
  • centered lines
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

The image shows a static digital display of repeated lines of text rendered in white, blocky, pixelated characters against a solid black background. The text contains multiple instances of 'Shley Grah', 'V-ball Pla', 'ase Shes Gase Shes', 'On Her KNEE)n Her KNEE', and 'ORTH MARIO'. Several character positions show corruption or missing pixels: the 'h' in 'Grah' appears as a blocky shape, the 'l' in 'Pla' is partially rendered, the 's' in 'Shes' has inconsistent pixelation, the 'n' in 'KNEE)n' shows an extra character, and the 'O' in 'ORTH MARIO' is replaced by a square. The text repeats vertically with identical corruption patterns across all lines.

Description

  • Static pixel art displays repeated text in white block letters on black background with visible character corruption.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • Shley Grah
  • V-ball Pla
  • KNEE
  • MARIO

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • corrupted text pixel art
  • repeated white block letters black background
  • Shley Grah V-ball Pla KNEE MARIO
  • pixelated character corruption

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image with repeated corrupted text

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Visible Text

  • Shley Grah
  • V-ball Pla
  • ase Shes Gase Shes
  • On Her KNEE)n Her KNEE
  • ORTH MARIO

Wordwall

  • white block letters
  • black background
  • repeated text
  • character corruption
  • pixelated rendering
  • vertical repetition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709061835481250175797
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
364 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f4/f443e1dd1f4ab56c580171aa085f4e0afae9d796c59deac10568648aecd77374.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
f443e1dd1f4ab56c
SHA-256
f443e1dd1f4ab56c580171aa085f4e0afae9d796c59deac10568648aecd77374
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.080891

OpenAI category scores

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Static pixel art displays repeated text in white block letters on black background with visible character corruption.

Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 23:58 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,171 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 734

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • digital artifact (mood, 0.80)
  • static (mood, 0.80)
  • textual (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • corrupted characters (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • vertical repetition
  • centered lines
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

The image shows a static digital display of repeated lines of text rendered in white, blocky, pixelated characters against a solid black background. The text contains multiple instances of 'Shley Grah', 'V-ball Pla', 'ase Shes Gase Shes', 'On Her KNEE)n Her KNEE', and 'ORTH MARIO'. Several character positions show corruption or missing pixels: the 'h' in 'Grah' appears as a blocky shape, the 'l' in 'Pla' is partially rendered, the 's' in 'Shes' has inconsistent pixelation, the 'n' in 'KNEE)n' shows an extra character, and the 'O' in 'ORTH MARIO' is replaced by a square. The text repeats vertically with identical corruption patterns across all lines.

Description

  • Static pixel art displays repeated text in white block letters on black background with visible character corruption.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • Shley Grah
  • V-ball Pla
  • KNEE
  • MARIO

Mood

  • static
  • textual
  • digital artifact

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • corrupted text pixel art
  • repeated white block letters black background
  • Shley Grah V-ball Pla KNEE MARIO
  • pixelated character corruption

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image with repeated corrupted text

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky text
  • corrupted characters

Visible Text

  • Shley Grah
  • V-ball Pla
  • ase Shes Gase Shes
  • On Her KNEE)n Her KNEE
  • ORTH MARIO

Wordwall

  • white block letters
  • black background
  • repeated text
  • character corruption
  • pixelated rendering
  • vertical repetition
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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
200709061835481250175797
Archive entry
200709061835481250175797.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#200709061835481250175797.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709061835481250175797.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016