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Four variations of a pixelated 'hello' text within nested square frames, each with distinct black-and-white border arrangements.

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Four variations of a pixelated 'hello' text within nested square frames, each with distinct black-and-white border arrangements.

Four variations of a pixelated 'hello' text within nested square frames, each with distinct black-and-white border arrangements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • border arrangements change
  • text remains static

Animation Summary

  • The border arrangements change across four variations while the 'hello' text remains static.

Composition

  • four
  • symmetrical
  • centered text
  • nested borders

Dense Caption

Four square panels display the word 'hello' in bright pink pixelated text. Each panel has nested square borders in black and white. Top-left: outermost black border, then white, then black, then white, with 'hello' centered. Top-right: outermost white border, then black, with a white square behind 'hello'. Bottom-left: outermost black border, then white, then black, with 'hello' centered. Bottom-right: outermost white border, then black, then white, then black, with 'hello' centered. All panels share the same pink 'hello' text and black-and-white color scheme.

Description

  • Four variations of a pixelated 'hello' text within nested square frames, each with distinct black-and-white border arrangements.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 20070730132204631192722

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated hello text
  • nested square borders
  • pink hello icon
  • four hello variations
  • text-based pixel art
  • buddy icon hello
  • black white pink borders
  • hello pixel art animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no cropping detected
  • quarantined composition: four panels

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • hello

Wordwall

  • 'hello' text
  • pixelated font
  • pink text
  • black-and-white borders
  • nested squares
  • four variations
  • centered text
  • square frames
  • pixel art style
  • text-based icon

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070730132204631192722
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
993 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fb/fb1cd3940eab2264b4075be9af105622a391a8dcb0d4ccd6d6cd67650b757472.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
fb1cd3940eab2264
SHA-256
fb1cd3940eab2264b4075be9af105622a391a8dcb0d4ccd6d6cd67650b757472
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 2, 2026 at 19:51 UTC
Run
1254
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000531

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:08 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four variations of a pixelated 'hello' text within nested square frames, each with distinct black-and-white border arrangements.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 16:25 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,375 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 807

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • nested square borders (object, 0.80)
  • border arrangements change (other, 0.80)
  • text remains static (other, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • border arrangements change
  • text remains static

Animation Summary

  • The border arrangements change across four variations while the 'hello' text remains static.

Colors

  • pink
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • four
  • symmetrical
  • centered text
  • nested borders

Dense Caption

Four square panels display the word 'hello' in bright pink pixelated text. Each panel has nested square borders in black and white. Top-left: outermost black border, then white, then black, then white, with 'hello' centered. Top-right: outermost white border, then black, with a white square behind 'hello'. Bottom-left: outermost black border, then white, then black, with 'hello' centered. Bottom-right: outermost white border, then black, then white, then black, with 'hello' centered. All panels share the same pink 'hello' text and black-and-white color scheme.

Description

  • Four variations of a pixelated 'hello' text within nested square frames, each with distinct black-and-white border arrangements.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 20070730132204631192722

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • friendly
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated hello text
  • nested square borders
  • pink hello icon
  • four hello variations
  • text-based pixel art
  • buddy icon hello
  • black white pink borders
  • hello pixel art animation

Objects

  • nested square borders

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no cropping detected
  • quarantined composition: four panels

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • minimalist
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • hello

Wordwall

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  • pixelated font
  • pink text
  • black-and-white borders
  • nested squares
  • four variations
  • centered text
  • square frames
  • pixel art style
  • text-based icon
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:48 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070730132204631192722
Archive entry
20070730132204631192722.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#20070730132204631192722.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070730132204631192722.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016