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Animated icon with shifting white text over a black background with purple, blue, and green abstract lines.

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Animated icon with shifting white text over a black background with purple, blue, and green abstract lines.

Animated icon with shifting white text over a black background with purple, blue, and green abstract lines. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes
  • line shifts

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from vertical bar to horizontal bar to lowercase "john" while abstract lines shift slightly.

Composition

  • text over background
  • swirling lines

Dense Caption

The icon features a black background with swirling abstract lines in purple, blue, and green. White text changes across frames: first showing a single vertical bar, then a horizontal bar, and finally the word "john" in lowercase. The lines shift slightly between frames, creating a subtle animation effect. The text appears to be pixelated and has a soft glow.

Description

  • Animated icon with shifting white text over a black background with purple, blue, and green abstract 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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white text black background
  • purple blue green lines
  • text changes john
  • pixelated animation

Visible Text

  • j
  • o
  • h
  • n

Wordwall

  • black background
  • purple lines
  • blue lines
  • green lines
  • white text
  • pixelated text
  • soft glow
  • swirling lines
  • text changes
  • lowercase "john"

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2009021313144097242895
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/09/096f41dd4dba5a2aae3672d7c48d40fed717584ac864e56ab31ac28040a4ff94.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Archive ID
096f41dd4dba5a2a
SHA-256
096f41dd4dba5a2aae3672d7c48d40fed717584ac864e56ab31ac28040a4ff94
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 02:15 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000494

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:53 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.122822

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Animated icon with shifting white text over a black background with purple, blue, and green abstract lines.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 22:44 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,964 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,105, response 585

Review tags

  • changes (action, 0.80)
  • shifts (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • dynamic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • abstract lines (object, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • changes
  • shifts

Animation

  • text changes
  • line shifts

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from vertical bar to horizontal bar to lowercase "john" while abstract lines shift slightly.

Colors

  • black
  • purple
  • blue
  • green
  • white

Composition

  • text over background
  • swirling lines

Dense Caption

The icon features a black background with swirling abstract lines in purple, blue, and green. White text changes across frames: first showing a single vertical bar, then a horizontal bar, and finally the word "john" in lowercase. The lines shift slightly between frames, creating a subtle animation effect. The text appears to be pixelated and has a soft glow.

Description

  • Animated icon with shifting white text over a black background with purple, blue, and green abstract 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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • dynamic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white text black background
  • purple blue green lines
  • text changes john
  • pixelated animation

Objects

  • abstract lines

Style

  • pixelated
  • abstract
  • animated

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • j
  • o
  • h
  • n

Wordwall

  • black background
  • purple lines
  • blue lines
  • green lines
  • white text
  • pixelated text
  • soft glow
  • swirling lines
  • text changes
  • lowercase "john"
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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
2009021313144097242895
Archive entry
2009021313144097242895.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 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#2009021313144097242895.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2009021313144097242895.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016