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Blue background with repeated white text and cyan decorative elements in a pixelated style.

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Blue background with repeated white text and cyan decorative elements in a pixelated style.

Blue background with repeated white text and cyan decorative elements in a pixelated style. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons……

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • pattern
  • repeated text
  • decorative elements

Dense Caption

Blue background with repeated white text lines reading "not a red p", "a black p", "a Balue p", and "* Sparkle" in a pixelated font. Cyan decorative elements include asterisks, dotted lines, and snowflake-like shapes. The text and decorations repeat in a grid pattern across the image. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated white text and cyan decorative elements in a pixelated style.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white text cyan decorations
  • pixelated text pattern
  • repeated 'not a red p' text
  • cyan snowflake decorations

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined composition: grid pattern
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid pattern

Visible Text

  • not a red p
  • a black p
  • a Balue p
  • * Sparkle

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text
  • cyan decorations
  • pixelated font
  • repeated text
  • asterisks
  • dotted lines
  • snowflake shapes
  • pattern
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2009062808462799755908
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/11/11b58e7717e2276cfdd61100528de22a20447df11f1afac167a56ed4116909a6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
11b58e7717e2276c
SHA-256
11b58e7717e2276cfdd61100528de22a20447df11f1afac167a56ed4116909a6
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 16:52 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000058

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:02 UTC
Run
106
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Blue background with repeated white text and cyan decorative elements in a pixelated style.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 13:21 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,266 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 584

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repeated pattern (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • cyan

Composition

  • pattern
  • repeated text
  • decorative elements

Dense Caption

Blue background with repeated white text lines reading "not a red p", "a black p", "a Balue p", and "* Sparkle" in a pixelated font. Cyan decorative elements include asterisks, dotted lines, and snowflake-like shapes. The text and decorations repeat in a grid pattern across the image. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated white text and cyan decorative elements in a pixelated style.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white text cyan decorations
  • pixelated text pattern
  • repeated 'not a red p' text
  • cyan snowflake decorations

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined composition: grid pattern
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid pattern

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • repeated pattern

Visible Text

  • not a red p
  • a black p
  • a Balue p
  • * Sparkle

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text
  • cyan decorations
  • pixelated font
  • repeated text
  • asterisks
  • dotted lines
  • snowflake shapes
  • pattern
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
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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
2009062808462799755908
Archive entry
2009062808462799755908.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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#2009062808462799755908.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2009062808462799755908.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016