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Pixelated text and green border on black background with repeated elements.

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Pixelated text and green border on black background with repeated elements.

Pixelated text and green border on black background with repeated elements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible content changes across observations; static image with repeated text elements and green border.

Composition

  • vertical alignment
  • repeated elements
  • two

Dense Caption

Black background features white pixelated text reading 'NUGENT' at top, 'B-BALL' below it, '#3' beneath that, then another 'NUGENT', followed by 'B-BALL', and finally '#3' at bottom. Green jagged border surrounds the entire composition. Text elements repeat in vertical alignment across two identical columns of text. All text uses a blocky pixelated font with visible dithering. The green border has irregular, fragmented edges throughout its perimeter.

Description

  • Pixelated text and green border on black background with repeated elements.

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
  • 20071112154646684214802

Named Entities

  • NUGENT
  • B-BALL
  • #3

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • nugent b-ball #3 pixel art
  • black background white text green border
  • repeated nugent b-ball #3 layout
  • pixelated text vertical repetition

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two-column layout
  • quarantined composition: two columns

Visible Text

  • NUGENT
  • B-BALL
  • #3

Wordwall

  • NUGENT
  • B-BALL
  • #3
  • black background
  • green jagged border
  • pixelated white text
  • vertical repetition
  • two- layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071112154646684214802
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:56 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f7/f786d103211b1eb70f60b0e5e551a1a3ec328437a71881b651216c6d41319cbd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:56 UTC
Archive ID
f786d103211b1eb7
SHA-256
f786d103211b1eb70f60b0e5e551a1a3ec328437a71881b651216c6d41319cbd
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:06 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089550

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text and green border on black background with repeated elements.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 17:51 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,271 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 600

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • jagged border (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible content changes across observations; static image with repeated text elements and green border.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • green

Composition

  • vertical alignment
  • repeated elements
  • two

Dense Caption

Black background features white pixelated text reading 'NUGENT' at top, 'B-BALL' below it, '#3' beneath that, then another 'NUGENT', followed by 'B-BALL', and finally '#3' at bottom. Green jagged border surrounds the entire composition. Text elements repeat in vertical alignment across two identical columns of text. All text uses a blocky pixelated font with visible dithering. The green border has irregular, fragmented edges throughout its perimeter.

Description

  • Pixelated text and green border on black background with repeated elements.

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
  • 20071112154646684214802

Named Entities

  • NUGENT
  • B-BALL
  • #3

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • nugent b-ball #3 pixel art
  • black background white text green border
  • repeated nugent b-ball #3 layout
  • pixelated text vertical repetition

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two-column layout
  • quarantined composition: two columns

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky font
  • jagged border

Visible Text

  • NUGENT
  • B-BALL
  • #3

Wordwall

  • NUGENT
  • B-BALL
  • #3
  • black background
  • green jagged border
  • pixelated white text
  • vertical repetition
  • two- layout
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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
20071112154646684214802
Archive entry
20071112154646684214802.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:56 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#20071112154646684214802.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071112154646684214802.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016