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Black background with white pixelated text [ ME ] arranged in a pattern, featuring intermittent white rectangular blocks replacing some text elements

Black background with white pixelated text [ ME ] arranged in a pattern, featuring intermittent white rectangular blocks replacing some text elements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; the image remains static with consistent text and block arrangement.

Composition

  • text-based
  • repetitive
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

[ ME ] text appears in white pixelated font on black background. Text is arranged in a grid of rows and columns. White rectangular blocks replace some [ ME ] text elements at specific positions: top-right corner, middle-left, middle-center, bottom-left, and bottom-center. The blocks are solid white, rectangular, and aligned with the text grid. The text and blocks maintain consistent spacing and alignment throughout the grid. The grid contains 12 rows and 3 columns of text or blocks. The top row has a white block on the left, [ ME ] on the middle, and [ ME ] on the right. The second row has [ ME ] on the left, [ ME ] on the middle, and [ ME ] on the right. The third row has [ ME ] on the left, [ ME ] on the middle, and [ ME ] on the right. The fourth row has [ ME ] on the left, [ ME ] on the middle, and [ ME ] on the right. The fifth row has [ ME ] on the left, [ ME ] on the middle, and [ ME ] on the right. The sixth row has [ ME ] on the left, [ ME ] on the middle, and [ ME ] on the right. The seventh row has [ ME ] on the left, [ ME ] on the middle, and [ ME ] on the right. The eighth row has [ ME ] on the left, [ ME ] on the middle, and [ ME ] on the right. The ninth row has [ ME ] on the left, [ ME ] on the middle, and [ ME ] on the right. The tenth row has [ ME ] on the left, [ ME ] on the middle, and [ ME ] on the right. The eleventh row has [ ME ] on the left, [ ME ] on the middle, and [ ME ] on the right. The twelfth row has [ ME ] on the left, [ ME ] on the middle, and [ ME ] on the right. The white blocks appear in the top-right corner, middle-left, middle-center, bottom-left, and bottom-center positions.

Description

Black background with white pixelated text [ ME ] arranged in a pattern, featuring intermittent white rectangular blocks replacing some text elements

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708181938511285693583
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • [ ME ] text
  • white blocks on black background
  • pixelated [ ME ]
  • text replacement blocks
  • monochrome
  • symmetrical text arrangement
  • repetitive [ ME ]

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed
  • quarantined description: Black background with white pixelated text [ ME ] arranged in a grid pattern, featuring intermittent white rectangular blocks replacing some text elements.
  • quarantined wordwall: 3 columns
  • quarantined wordwall: 12 rows
  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: monochrome grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 12x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: [ ME ] text grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • no animation observed

Visible Text

  • [ ME ]

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • [ ME ] text
  • arrangement
  • white rectangular blocks
  • consistent spacing
  • text replacement
  • solid white blocks
  • top-right block
  • middle-left block
  • middle-center block
  • bottom-left block
  • bottom-center block

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708181938511285693583
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
612 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fe/fea7b29b2633a30f87769db303b29bbd58be2800feb97da0d29e05df5301f16d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
fea7b29b2633a30f
SHA-256
fea7b29b2633a30f87769db303b29bbd58be2800feb97da0d29e05df5301f16d
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
0.083275

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.930042onnx/unsafe0.083275onnx/nsfw0.043340onnx/nsfl0.039935
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black background with white pixelated text [ ME ] arranged in a pattern, featuring intermittent white rectangular blocks replacing some text elements

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 01:57 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,987 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,166, response 1,104

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • minimalist (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; the image remains static with consistent text and block arrangement.

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • text-based
  • repetitive
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

[ ME ] text appears in white pixelated font on black background. Text is arranged in a grid of rows and columns. White rectangular blocks replace some [ ME ] text elements at specific positions: top-right corner, middle-left, middle-center, bottom-left, and bottom-center. The blocks are solid white, rectangular, and aligned with the text grid. The text and blocks maintain consistent spacing and alignment throughout the grid. The grid contains 12 rows and 3 columns of text or blocks. The top row has a white block on the left, [ ME ] on the middle, and [ ME ] on the right. The second row has [ ME ] on the left, [ ME ] on the middle, and [ ME ] on the right. The third row has [ ME ] on the left, [ ME ] on the middle, and [ ME ] on the right. The fourth row has [ ME ] on the left, [ ME ] on the middle, and [ ME ] on the right. The fifth row has [ ME ] on the left, [ ME ] on the middle, and [ ME ] on the right. The sixth row has [ ME ] on the left, [ ME ] on the middle, and [ ME ] on the right. The seventh row has [ ME ] on the left, [ ME ] on the middle, and [ ME ] on the right. The eighth row has [ ME ] on the left, [ ME ] on the middle, and [ ME ] on the right. The ninth row has [ ME ] on the left, [ ME ] on the middle, and [ ME ] on the right. The tenth row has [ ME ] on the left, [ ME ] on the middle, and [ ME ] on the right. The eleventh row has [ ME ] on the left, [ ME ] on the middle, and [ ME ] on the right. The twelfth row has [ ME ] on the left, [ ME ] on the middle, and [ ME ] on the right. The white blocks appear in the top-right corner, middle-left, middle-center, bottom-left, and bottom-center positions.

Description

Black background with white pixelated text [ ME ] arranged in a pattern, featuring intermittent white rectangular blocks replacing some text elements

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708181938511285693583
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral
  • minimalist

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • [ ME ] text
  • white blocks on black background
  • pixelated [ ME ]
  • text replacement blocks
  • monochrome
  • symmetrical text arrangement
  • repetitive [ ME ]

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed
  • quarantined description: Black background with white pixelated text [ ME ] arranged in a grid pattern, featuring intermittent white rectangular blocks replacing some text elements.
  • quarantined wordwall: 3 columns
  • quarantined wordwall: 12 rows
  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: monochrome grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 12x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: [ ME ] text grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • no animation observed

Style

  • pixelated
  • monochrome

Visible Text

  • [ ME ]

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • [ ME ] text
  • arrangement
  • white rectangular blocks
  • consistent spacing
  • text replacement
  • solid white blocks
  • top-right block
  • middle-left block
  • middle-center block
  • bottom-left block
  • bottom-center block
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:08 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)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200708181938511285693583
Archive entry
200708181938511285693583.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#200708181938511285693583.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708181938511285693583.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016