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Pixelated cartoon figures and distorted text on a black background with gray bottom border.

Pixelated cartoon figures and distorted text on a black background with gray bottom border. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures, Mid-200…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top of four characters
  • text below on black background with gray border

Dense Caption

Four distinct pixel-art characters appear at the top: two tall, slender structures resembling towers; a person in white long-sleeve shirt and blue pants; a woman with brown hair wearing a white dress; and another woman with brown hair. Below them is distorted text reading "u peopl think if thas wut Ur thInk" followed by "iMa NoCe nt gurl yOu go dUn" in the same style, all on black background with gray bottom border.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon figures and distorted text on a black background with gray bottom border.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM buddy icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: gif
  • provenance era: Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: non-square icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • e353f486811-IMBUDDY
  • buddy-icons-us
  • AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material
  • non-square icons
  • unconfirmed visuallySupportedEntities not promoted: buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl
  • unconfirmed retrieval not promoted: buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • towers white shirt blue pants brown hair white dress distorted text black background gray border
  • pixel art cartoon figures black background gray border

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: top row of four characters

Visible Text

  • u peopl think if thas wut Ur thInk
  • iMa NoCe nt gurl yOu go dUn

Wordwall

  • towers
  • white shirt
  • blue pants
  • brown hair
  • white dress
  • distorted text
  • black background
  • gray border

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Added to archive
July 9, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures

Source title
e353f486811-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / e
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:37 UTC

Original record Source download

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures Relaxed

Source title
e353f486811-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / e
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 19:08 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.7 KB
Motion
Animated (13 frames)
Added to archive
July 9, 2026
Relative path
icons/93/9379ee36f6271c80e5e9f4d32eea80778efa4b894ba636e1ae377b38d976a89f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 9, 2026 at 22:37 UTC
Archive ID
9379ee36f6271c80
SHA-256
9379ee36f6271c80e5e9f4d32eea80778efa4b894ba636e1ae377b38d976a89f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:10 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.105645

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated cartoon figures and distorted text on a black background with gray bottom border.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 05:48 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,097 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,098, response 712

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • unstable (mood, 0.80)
  • distorted text (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • another woman with brown hair (subject, 0.80)
  • person in white shirt and blue pants (subject, 0.80)
  • towers (subject, 0.80)
  • woman with brown hair wearing white dress (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • white
  • blue
  • brown
  • orange

Composition

  • top of four characters
  • text below on black background with gray border

Dense Caption

Four distinct pixel-art characters appear at the top: two tall, slender structures resembling towers; a person in white long-sleeve shirt and blue pants; a woman with brown hair wearing a white dress; and another woman with brown hair. Below them is distorted text reading "u peopl think if thas wut Ur thInk" followed by "iMa NoCe nt gurl yOu go dUn" in the same style, all on black background with gray bottom border.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon figures and distorted text on a black background with gray bottom border.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM buddy icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: gif
  • provenance era: Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: non-square icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • e353f486811-IMBUDDY
  • buddy-icons-us
  • AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material
  • non-square icons
  • unconfirmed visuallySupportedEntities not promoted: buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl
  • unconfirmed retrieval not promoted: buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl

Mood

  • playful
  • unstable

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • towers white shirt blue pants brown hair white dress distorted text black background gray border
  • pixel art cartoon figures black background gray border

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: top row of four characters

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • distorted text

Subjects

  • towers
  • person in white shirt and blue pants
  • woman with brown hair wearing white dress
  • another woman with brown hair

Visible Text

  • u peopl think if thas wut Ur thInk
  • iMa NoCe nt gurl yOu go dUn

Wordwall

  • towers
  • white shirt
  • blue pants
  • brown hair
  • white dress
  • distorted text
  • black background
  • gray border
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 23:02 UTC
Run
30
Version
v3
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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Full source records (2)
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures (wayback-buddy-icons-us-domain-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl
Category
buddyicons / e
Alt
e353f486811-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:37 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl
Original: http://www.buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/e/e353f486811-IMBUDDY.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20070218023726id_/http://www.buddy-icons.us:80/buddyicons/e/e353f486811-IMBUDDY.gif 
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures Relaxed (wayback-buddy-icons-us-domain-gifs-relaxed)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl relaxed-size pass
Category
buddyicons / e
Alt
e353f486811-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 19:08 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
relaxed-size AIM-era buddy-icon portal material, including narrow/tall and larger avatar-format GIF candidates
Original: http://www.buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/e/e353f486811-IMBUDDY.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20070218023726id_/http://www.buddy-icons.us:80/buddyicons/e/e353f486811-IMBUDDY.gif