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Blue background with white dotted border, displaying repeated text and symbols in black pixelated font.

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Blue background with white dotted border, displaying repeated text and symbols in black pixelated font.

Blue background with white dotted border, displaying repeated text and symbols in black pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all sections are static and identical across observations.

Composition

  • four identical quadrants
  • text arranged in -like pattern

Dense Caption

The image shows a blue background bordered by white dotted lines. Four identical sections contain the text "Alex G." followed by "11/21/07" at top-left and bottom-right of each section, and "Hottie" with asterisks at top-right and bottom-left of each section. The text is rendered in black pixelated font. White asterisk symbols appear between text elements. All four sections are visually identical; no animation changes occur across observations.

Description

  • Blue background with white dotted border, displaying repeated text and symbols in black pixelated font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801061846521849985379
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background pixelated text "Alex G." 11/21/07 Hottie
  • pixelated blue border white dotted text Alex G. 11/21/07 Hottie
  • identical quadrants blue background black text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed; all sections are static and identical
  • quarantined composition: text arranged in grid-like pattern

Visible Text

  • Alex G.
  • 11/21/07
  • Hottie

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white dotted border
  • black pixelated text
  • "Alex G." text
  • "11/21/07" date
  • "Hottie" text
  • asterisk symbols
  • identical repeated sections

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801061846521849985379
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/0e/0e29bbf2e6e2a89eca2c9eef930434398dc157ae580dc2774f556d49bf5ad8c4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
Archive ID
0e29bbf2e6e2a89e
SHA-256
0e29bbf2e6e2a89eca2c9eef930434398dc157ae580dc2774f556d49bf5ad8c4
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:58 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.132818

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Blue background with white dotted border, displaying repeated text and symbols in black pixelated font.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 08:29 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,111 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 613

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • dotted border (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated font (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all sections are static and identical across observations.

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • four identical quadrants
  • text arranged in -like pattern

Dense Caption

The image shows a blue background bordered by white dotted lines. Four identical sections contain the text "Alex G." followed by "11/21/07" at top-left and bottom-right of each section, and "Hottie" with asterisks at top-right and bottom-left of each section. The text is rendered in black pixelated font. White asterisk symbols appear between text elements. All four sections are visually identical; no animation changes occur across observations.

Description

  • Blue background with white dotted border, displaying repeated text and symbols in black pixelated font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801061846521849985379
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background pixelated text "Alex G." 11/21/07 Hottie
  • pixelated blue border white dotted text Alex G. 11/21/07 Hottie
  • identical quadrants blue background black text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed; all sections are static and identical
  • quarantined composition: text arranged in grid-like pattern

Style

  • pixelated font
  • dotted border

Visible Text

  • Alex G.
  • 11/21/07
  • Hottie

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white dotted border
  • black pixelated text
  • "Alex G." text
  • "11/21/07" date
  • "Hottie" text
  • asterisk symbols
  • identical repeated sections
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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
200801061846521849985379
Archive entry
200801061846521849985379.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 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#200801061846521849985379.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801061846521849985379.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016