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Static grayscale image of a grid of pixelated text fragments arranged in rows on a white background.

Static grayscale image of a grid of pixelated text fragments arranged in rows on a white background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons……

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Source terms

Composition

  • grid
  • six rows
  • four columns
  • text fragments

Dense Caption

The image consists of a grid of pixelated text fragments arranged in six rows on a white background. The top row contains four fragments: 'friends', 'me', 'but', and 'a'. The second row contains 'out of', 'jail', 'but', and 'a'. The third row contains 'but', 'friends', 'a', and 'a'. The fourth row contains 'be', 'getting', 'back', and 'a'. The fifth row contains 'a', 'to', 'the', and 'a'. The sixth row contains 'a', 'a', 'a', and 'a'. All fragments are rendered in grayscale with varying shades of gray, and the text appears to be partially obscured or pixelated. The overall composition is a static grid layout with no visible motion or animation.

Description

  • Static grayscale image of a grid of pixelated text fragments arranged in rows on a white background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated text fragments grid
  • text fragments arranged in rows
  • static image of text fragments
  • grayscale text fragments grid layout
  • text fragments on white background
  • pixelated text fragments grid
  • text fragments in six rows
  • grayscale text fragments in four columns

Preprocessing Notes

  • Image appears to be a static grid of pixelated text fragments with no visible motion or animation.

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata hints but no authoritative visual evidence

Uncertain Text

  • be
  • getting
  • back
  • a
  • to
  • the

Visible Text

  • friends
  • me
  • but
  • a
  • out of
  • jail

Wordwall

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  • white background
  • six rows
  • four columns
  • partially obscured
  • shades of gray
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  • arranged in rows
  • no animation
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  • pixelated text
  • grid of fragments
  • six rows of fragments
  • four columns of fragments
  • partially obscured text
  • static composition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200903131359451208796790
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fd/fd41d9e3b948e743afc362bf6e563c2e895798da25676b9bf0eb50e22b67a833.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 UTC
Archive ID
fd41d9e3b948e743
SHA-256
fd41d9e3b948e743afc362bf6e563c2e895798da25676b9bf0eb50e22b67a833
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:09 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091473

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Static grayscale image of a grid of pixelated text fragments arranged in rows on a white background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 02:41 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,527 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 906

Review tags

  • grayscale (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • grayscale
  • white

Composition

  • grid
  • six rows
  • four columns
  • text fragments

Dense Caption

The image consists of a grid of pixelated text fragments arranged in six rows on a white background. The top row contains four fragments: 'friends', 'me', 'but', and 'a'. The second row contains 'out of', 'jail', 'but', and 'a'. The third row contains 'but', 'friends', 'a', and 'a'. The fourth row contains 'be', 'getting', 'back', and 'a'. The fifth row contains 'a', 'to', 'the', and 'a'. The sixth row contains 'a', 'a', 'a', and 'a'. All fragments are rendered in grayscale with varying shades of gray, and the text appears to be partially obscured or pixelated. The overall composition is a static grid layout with no visible motion or animation.

Description

  • Static grayscale image of a grid of pixelated text fragments arranged in rows on a white background.

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

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  • text fragments arranged in rows
  • static image of text fragments
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  • text fragments on white background
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  • grayscale text fragments in four columns

Preprocessing Notes

  • Image appears to be a static grid of pixelated text fragments with no visible motion or animation.

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata hints but no authoritative visual evidence

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static

Uncertain Text

  • be
  • getting
  • back
  • a
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  • the

Visible Text

  • friends
  • me
  • but
  • a
  • out of
  • jail

Wordwall

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  • pixelated
  • text fragments
  • grid layout
  • white background
  • six rows
  • four columns
  • partially obscured
  • shades of gray
  • static image
  • fragmented text
  • arranged in rows
  • no animation
  • grayscale image
  • pixelated text
  • grid of fragments
  • six rows of fragments
  • four columns of fragments
  • partially obscured text
  • static composition
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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
200903131359451208796790
Archive entry
200903131359451208796790.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 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#200903131359451208796790.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200903131359451208796790.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016