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Green background with pixelated text and white plus signs, showing repeated phrases and partial text variations across four quadrants.

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Green background with pixelated text and white plus signs, showing repeated phrases and partial text variations across four quadrants.

Green background with pixelated text and white plus signs, showing repeated phrases and partial text variations across four quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with repeated text and plus signs across four quadrants.

Composition

  • four-quadrant layout
  • scattered plus signs

Dense Caption

Bright green background with scattered white plus signs. Four quadrants display pixelated black text: top-left and top-right show "soggy nuggets"; middle-left and middle-right show "and taco's"; bottom-left and bottom-right show "and taco's". Top-right and middle-right text have partial pixel corruption. Text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution font. White plus signs are scattered across the background, varying in density. The image has a static composition with no visible animation changes between observations.

Description

  • Green background with pixelated text and white plus signs, showing repeated phrases and partial text variations across four quadrants.

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

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • soggy nuggets and taco's
  • green background pixel art
  • text-based buddy icon
  • four quadrant layout
  • white plus signs
  • pixelated black text
  • partial text corruption
  • blocky font

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed

Visible Text

  • soggy nuggets
  • and taco's

Wordwall

  • green background
  • white plus signs
  • pixelated black text
  • blocky font
  • "soggy nuggets"
  • "and taco's"
  • partial text corruption
  • four quadrants

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080728205044154671557
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fd/fd69f0851f92253f101f94b0911aec7a43dbd5aff39404f3b64d67c0efae9633.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
fd69f0851f92253f
SHA-256
fd69f0851f92253f101f94b0911aec7a43dbd5aff39404f3b64d67c0efae9633
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 2, 2026 at 23:07 UTC
Run
1254
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000483

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:09 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.332951

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Green background with pixelated text and white plus signs, showing repeated phrases and partial text variations across four quadrants.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,320 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 591

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with repeated text and plus signs across four quadrants.

Colors

  • green
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • four-quadrant layout
  • scattered plus signs

Dense Caption

Bright green background with scattered white plus signs. Four quadrants display pixelated black text: top-left and top-right show "soggy nuggets"; middle-left and middle-right show "and taco's"; bottom-left and bottom-right show "and taco's". Top-right and middle-right text have partial pixel corruption. Text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution font. White plus signs are scattered across the background, varying in density. The image has a static composition with no visible animation changes between observations.

Description

  • Green background with pixelated text and white plus signs, showing repeated phrases and partial text variations across four quadrants.

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

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • soggy nuggets and taco's
  • green background pixel art
  • text-based buddy icon
  • four quadrant layout
  • white plus signs
  • pixelated black text
  • partial text corruption
  • blocky font

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • soggy nuggets
  • and taco's

Wordwall

  • green background
  • white plus signs
  • pixelated black text
  • blocky font
  • "soggy nuggets"
  • "and taco's"
  • partial text corruption
  • four quadrants
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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
20080728205044154671557
Archive entry
20080728205044154671557.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#20080728205044154671557.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080728205044154671557.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016