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Static pixel art displays white alphanumeric characters on black background, arranged in five rows with varying character counts per row.

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Static pixel art displays white alphanumeric characters on black background, arranged in five rows with varying character counts per row.

Static pixel art displays white alphanumeric characters on black background, arranged in five rows with varying character counts per row. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Source terms

Composition

  • five horizontal rows
  • centered alignment
  • no borders or frames

Dense Caption

Static pixel art displays white alphanumeric characters on black background. Characters are rendered in blocky, low-resolution font. Rows contain: first row 'cd lo mb', second row 'hm os jg', third row 'jh er bm kj', fourth row 'cd fo kk sm', fifth row 'sms cheer'. All characters are lowercase except 'cd' in first and fourth rows. No additional visual elements or colors present.

Description

  • Static pixel art displays white alphanumeric characters on black background, arranged in five rows with varying character counts per row.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20081005170530331916348
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20081005170530331916348

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white alphanumeric pixel art
  • black background static image
  • five rows of lowercase characters
  • cd lo mb hm os jg
  • jh er bm kj cd fo kk sm
  • sms cheer
  • repeated cd
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • cd lo mb
  • hm os jg
  • jh er bm kj
  • cd fo kk sm
  • sms cheer

Wordwall

  • white alphanumeric characters
  • black background
  • blocky low-resolution font
  • five rows
  • first row: cd lo mb
  • second row: hm os jg
  • third row: jh er bm kj
  • fourth row: cd fo kk sm
  • fifth row: sms cheer
  • lowercase characters
  • no additional visual elements
  • static image
  • no colors beyond black and white
  • character counts vary per row
  • repeated 'cd' in first and fourth rows

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081005170530331916348
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
523 bytes
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f9/f9688707c0bfb44e929813f464c8b4f37029f88921dbaf384b2db6f2a14aeb36.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
f9688707c0bfb44e
SHA-256
f9688707c0bfb44e929813f464c8b4f37029f88921dbaf384b2db6f2a14aeb36
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:07 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073402

OpenAI category scores

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Static pixel art displays white alphanumeric characters on black background, arranged in five rows with varying character counts per row.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 03:05 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,813 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 806

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • five horizontal rows
  • centered alignment
  • no borders or frames

Dense Caption

Static pixel art displays white alphanumeric characters on black background. Characters are rendered in blocky, low-resolution font. Rows contain: first row 'cd lo mb', second row 'hm os jg', third row 'jh er bm kj', fourth row 'cd fo kk sm', fifth row 'sms cheer'. All characters are lowercase except 'cd' in first and fourth rows. No additional visual elements or colors present.

Description

  • Static pixel art displays white alphanumeric characters on black background, arranged in five rows with varying character counts per row.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20081005170530331916348
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20081005170530331916348

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white alphanumeric pixel art
  • black background static image
  • five rows of lowercase characters
  • cd lo mb hm os jg
  • jh er bm kj cd fo kk sm
  • sms cheer
  • repeated cd
  • blocky font

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • cd lo mb
  • hm os jg
  • jh er bm kj
  • cd fo kk sm
  • sms cheer

Wordwall

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  • black background
  • blocky low-resolution font
  • five rows
  • first row: cd lo mb
  • second row: hm os jg
  • third row: jh er bm kj
  • fourth row: cd fo kk sm
  • fifth row: sms cheer
  • lowercase characters
  • no additional visual elements
  • static image
  • no colors beyond black and white
  • character counts vary per row
  • repeated 'cd' in first and fourth rows
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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
20081005170530331916348
Archive entry
20081005170530331916348.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#20081005170530331916348.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081005170530331916348.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016