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Blue pixelated background with four instances of the name 'Carolyn' in black text, each positioned in a corner of the

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Source terms

Composition

  • four-corner text layout
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • uniform background

Dense Caption

The image consists of a grid of blue pixels in varying shades forming a background. Four instances of the text 'Carolyn' appear in black, pixelated font: one in the top-left corner, one in the top-right corner, one in the bottom-left corner, and one in the bottom-right corner. Each 'Carolyn' text is rendered with a blocky, low-resolution style consistent with early digital graphics. The pixel grid shows no visible animation or motion changes across the frame. The text is legible with no partial or obscured characters.

Description

  • Blue pixelated background with four instances of the name 'Carolyn' in black text, each positioned in a corner of the

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pixelated four Carolyn texts
  • Carolyn text blue background
  • four corner Carolyn text
  • pixelated Carolyn

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue pixelated grid background with four instances of the name 'Carolyn' in black text, each positioned in a corner of the grid.
  • quarantined wordwall: blue pixelated grid
  • quarantined style: grid-based
  • quarantined composition: uniform grid background
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated Carolyn grid
  • quarantined retrieval: blue pixelated grid four Carolyn texts

Visible Text

  • Carolyn

Wordwall

  • blue pixelated
  • four 'Carolyn' texts
  • black text on blue
  • top-left corner text
  • top-right corner text
  • bottom-left corner text
  • bottom-right corner text
  • pixelated font
  • low-resolution graphics
  • no animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708281756042023484906
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fb/fbae9c6ada7890cc6251b6efb23405c4f33cdb75beb28e35db21a6843fc71061.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
fbae9c6ada7890cc
SHA-256
fbae9c6ada7890cc6251b6efb23405c4f33cdb75beb28e35db21a6843fc71061
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 03:42 UTC
Run
1293
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
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Overall score
0.001184

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:08 UTC
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1140
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue pixelated background with four instances of the name 'Carolyn' in black text, each positioned in a corner of the

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 06:48 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,815 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 685

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Colors

  • blue
  • black

Composition

  • four-corner text layout
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • uniform background

Dense Caption

The image consists of a grid of blue pixels in varying shades forming a background. Four instances of the text 'Carolyn' appear in black, pixelated font: one in the top-left corner, one in the top-right corner, one in the bottom-left corner, and one in the bottom-right corner. Each 'Carolyn' text is rendered with a blocky, low-resolution style consistent with early digital graphics. The pixel grid shows no visible animation or motion changes across the frame. The text is legible with no partial or obscured characters.

Description

  • Blue pixelated background with four instances of the name 'Carolyn' in black text, each positioned in a corner of the

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pixelated four Carolyn texts
  • Carolyn text blue background
  • four corner Carolyn text
  • pixelated Carolyn

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: blue pixelated grid
  • quarantined style: grid-based
  • quarantined composition: uniform grid background
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  • quarantined retrieval: blue pixelated grid four Carolyn texts

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • based

Visible Text

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  • four 'Carolyn' texts
  • black text on blue
  • top-left corner text
  • top-right corner text
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  • bottom-right corner text
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  • low-resolution graphics
  • no animation
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:29 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
200708281756042023484906
Archive entry
200708281756042023484906.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#200708281756042023484906.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708281756042023484906.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016