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Red text on blue background with black and gray sections, displaying partial words 'MERC', 'BITCH', and 'AMERS' in pixelated font.

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Red text on blue background with black and gray sections, displaying partial words 'MERC', 'BITCH', and 'AMERS' in pixelated font.

Red text on blue background with black and gray sections, displaying partial words 'MERC', 'BITCH', and 'AMERS' in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-left text
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left text
  • black background
  • gray background

Dense Caption

Red pixelated text on solid blue background appears in three segments: top-left shows 'MERC', top-right shows 'BITCH', bottom-left shows 'AMERS'. Black background occupies left and top areas, gray background occupies bottom-right area. Text has blue outline. Pixelation creates jagged edges on all characters. No visible motion or animation changes. Text fragments are partially obscured by background sections.

Description

  • Red text on blue background with black and gray sections, displaying partial words 'MERC', 'BITCH', and 'AMERS' in pixelated font.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red text blue background
  • MERC BITCH AMERS
  • pixelated text fragments
  • blue outline text
  • black gray background

Visible Text

  • MERC
  • BITCH
  • AMERS

Wordwall

  • red text
  • blue background
  • black background
  • gray background
  • pixelated font
  • text fragments
  • MERC
  • BITCH
  • AMERS
  • blue outline

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200912051308241813788603
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fe/fe709515317c86639fcd7bf3b2ccef7fe61fdcd8109ff67f3b031c46350f575f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
fe709515317c8663
SHA-256
fe709515317c86639fcd7bf3b2ccef7fe61fdcd8109ff67f3b031c46350f575f
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 21:04 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.144466

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagharassment0.144466falsehate0.008434falsesexual0.002771falseharassment/threatening0.000752falseviolence0.000540falseself-harm0.000454falseself-harm/intent0.000212falseself-harm/instructions0.000212falseviolence/graphic0.000016falseillicit0.000014falsehate/threatening0.000005falsesexual/minors0.000004falseillicit/violent0.000002false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/ocr/profanity1.000000textenrichment/visual/profanity0.500000image
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:15 UTC
Run
1139
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010166

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.010166falsesexual0.000809falseself-harm0.000455falseviolence/graphic0.000024falseself-harm/intent0.000003falseself-harm/instructions0.000002falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
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
nsfw
Overall score
1.000000

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/unsafe1.000000onnx/nsfw0.686613onnx/sfw0.378186onnx/nsfl0.333162
Enrichment records (1)
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Red text on blue background with black and gray sections, displaying partial words 'MERC', 'BITCH', and 'AMERS' in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 21:00 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,002 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 611

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • fragmented (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • top-left text
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left text
  • black background
  • gray background

Dense Caption

Red pixelated text on solid blue background appears in three segments: top-left shows 'MERC', top-right shows 'BITCH', bottom-left shows 'AMERS'. Black background occupies left and top areas, gray background occupies bottom-right area. Text has blue outline. Pixelation creates jagged edges on all characters. No visible motion or animation changes. Text fragments are partially obscured by background sections.

Description

  • Red text on blue background with black and gray sections, displaying partial words 'MERC', 'BITCH', and 'AMERS' in pixelated font.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red text blue background
  • MERC BITCH AMERS
  • pixelated text fragments
  • blue outline text
  • black gray background

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • fragmented

Visible Text

  • MERC
  • BITCH
  • AMERS

Wordwall

  • red text
  • blue background
  • black background
  • gray background
  • pixelated font
  • text fragments
  • MERC
  • BITCH
  • AMERS
  • blue outline
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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
200912051308241813788603
Archive entry
200912051308241813788603.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#200912051308241813788603.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200912051308241813788603.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016