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Orange background with white pixelated text reading "i'm a retard but it's ok :)" in three lines.

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Orange background with white pixelated text reading "i'm a retard but it's ok :)" in three lines.

Orange background with white pixelated text reading "i'm a retard but it's ok :)" in three lines. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, L…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three-line text arrangement
  • centered text
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image is a static digital graphic with a solid orange background. White pixelated text is arranged in three lines: the first line reads "i'm a", the second line reads "retard", and the third line reads "but it's ok :)". The text uses a blocky, low-resolution font style typical of early digital graphics. The character ")" appears as a smiley face at the bottom of the text block. The image has no additional visual elements or decorations.

Description

  • Orange background with white pixelated text reading "i'm a retard but it's ok :)" in three lines.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 2007112410201650759277

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange background white text retard
  • i'm a retard but it's ok smiley
  • pixelated text three line
  • low-resolution humor text

Preprocessing Notes

  • text appears to be intentionally distorted for pixelated effect

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • i'm a
  • retard
  • but it's ok :)

Wordwall

  • orange background
  • white pixelated text
  • i'm a
  • retard
  • but it's ok
  • smiley face
  • three-line text
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2007112410201650759277
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ff/ff43353696f43760b8ecbcb8a0febeaaccf19badc48d60352c64328ddb38f74c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC
Archive ID
ff43353696f43760
SHA-256
ff43353696f43760b8ecbcb8a0febeaaccf19badc48d60352c64328ddb38f74c
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 11:05 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.362849

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flaghate0.362849falseharassment0.356050falseself-harm0.004735falseharassment/threatening0.000783falsesexual0.000704falseviolence0.000510falseself-harm/intent0.000310falseself-harm/instructions0.000237falsehate/threatening0.000050falseviolence/graphic0.000025falseillicit0.000017falsesexual/minors0.000013falseillicit/violent0.000003false

Qwen scheduling evidence

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

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:10 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.100727

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.899273onnx/unsafe0.100727onnx/nsfw0.065878onnx/nsfl0.034848
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Orange background with white pixelated text reading "i'm a retard but it's ok :)" in three lines.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 10:59 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,293 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,084, response 792

Review tags

  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • self deprecating (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • orange
  • white

Composition

  • three-line text arrangement
  • centered text
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image is a static digital graphic with a solid orange background. White pixelated text is arranged in three lines: the first line reads "i'm a", the second line reads "retard", and the third line reads "but it's ok :)". The text uses a blocky, low-resolution font style typical of early digital graphics. The character ")" appears as a smiley face at the bottom of the text block. The image has no additional visual elements or decorations.

Description

  • Orange background with white pixelated text reading "i'm a retard but it's ok :)" in three lines.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 2007112410201650759277

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • humorous
  • self-deprecating

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange background white text retard
  • i'm a retard but it's ok smiley
  • pixelated text three line
  • low-resolution humor text

Preprocessing Notes

  • text appears to be intentionally distorted for pixelated effect

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • i'm a
  • retard
  • but it's ok :)

Wordwall

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  • white pixelated text
  • i'm a
  • retard
  • but it's ok
  • smiley face
  • three-line text
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution
  • static image
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:18 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
2007112410201650759277
Archive entry
2007112410201650759277.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 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#2007112410201650759277.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2007112410201650759277.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016