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Pixelated red text on cyan background with yellow gradient, displaying repeated words 'CHEESE', 'TEA', and 'AL' in vertical arrangement.

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Pixelated red text on cyan background with yellow gradient, displaying repeated words 'CHEESE', 'TEA', and 'AL' in vertical arrangement.

Pixelated red text on cyan background with yellow gradient, displaying repeated words 'CHEESE', 'TEA', and 'AL' in vertical arrangement. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Int…

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Source terms

Composition

  • vertical text arrangement
  • repeated word pattern

Dense Caption

Cyan background with yellow radial gradient. Red pixelated text: top row "CHEESE", second row "CHEESE", third row "TEA", fourth row "CHEESE", fifth row "AL"; repeated below. Text is blocky, low-resolution font. No animation detected in static image.

Description

  • Pixelated red text on cyan background with yellow gradient, displaying repeated words 'CHEESE', 'TEA', and 'AL' in vertical arrangement.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090208062534741674946

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cheese tea al cyan yellow red
  • pixelated text buddy icon
  • cyan background yellow gradient cheese
  • repeated words cheeze tea al

Visible Text

  • CHEESE
  • TEA
  • AL

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • yellow gradient
  • red pixelated text
  • CHEESE repeated 5 times
  • TEA repeated 2 times
  • AL repeated 2 times

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090208062534741674946
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fe/fedbe88736e305f0604ca74706f160eed6c0a121250ed9b762df52bfe38e6c39.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC
Archive ID
fedbe88736e305f0
SHA-256
fedbe88736e305f0604ca74706f160eed6c0a121250ed9b762df52bfe38e6c39
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
0.094065

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated red text on cyan background with yellow gradient, displaying repeated words 'CHEESE', 'TEA', and 'AL' in vertical arrangement.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 22:04 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,735 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 631

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • yellow
  • red

Composition

  • vertical text arrangement
  • repeated word pattern

Dense Caption

Cyan background with yellow radial gradient. Red pixelated text: top row "CHEESE", second row "CHEESE", third row "TEA", fourth row "CHEESE", fifth row "AL"; repeated below. Text is blocky, low-resolution font. No animation detected in static image.

Description

  • Pixelated red text on cyan background with yellow gradient, displaying repeated words 'CHEESE', 'TEA', and 'AL' in vertical arrangement.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090208062534741674946

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cheese tea al cyan yellow red
  • pixelated text buddy icon
  • cyan background yellow gradient cheese
  • repeated words cheeze tea al

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • CHEESE
  • TEA
  • AL

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • yellow gradient
  • red pixelated text
  • CHEESE repeated 5 times
  • TEA repeated 2 times
  • AL repeated 2 times
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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
20090208062534741674946
Archive entry
20090208062534741674946.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 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#20090208062534741674946.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090208062534741674946.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016