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Black background with four yellow stick figures and cyan pixelated lightning-like patterns.

Black background with four yellow stick figures and cyan pixelated lightning-like patterns. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons……

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • four corner placement
  • central cyan pattern

Dense Caption

Four identical yellow stick figures positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners of a black square. Each figure has an oval head, vertical torso line, two angled arms extending outward, and two angled legs forming a V-shape. Cyan pixelated lines resembling lightning or static form irregular patterns along the edges and center of the image. The central cyan pattern is larger than edge patterns. All elements are rendered in 8-bit style with visible dithering.

Description

  • Black background with four yellow stick figures and cyan pixelated lightning-like patterns.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080106125017751113312

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow stick figures cyan lightning black background
  • four corner stick figures pixel art
  • cyan static patterns yellow figures
  • 8-bit style four corner figures

Subjects

  • stick figure

Wordwall

  • yellow stick figures
  • cyan lightning-like patterns
  • black background
  • four corners
  • oval heads
  • V-shaped legs
  • pixelated edges

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080106125017751113312
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
971 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/18/1812c8f36048d236aca6dab2b3fe01180f9ac6230d81a15aa6f91ce8cf9b9967.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
Archive ID
1812c8f36048d236
SHA-256
1812c8f36048d236aca6dab2b3fe01180f9ac6230d81a15aa6f91ce8cf9b9967
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:08 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077261

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with four yellow stick figures and cyan pixelated lightning-like patterns.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 08:19 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,182 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 651

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • cyan lightning like patterns (object, 0.80)
  • no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • static image (other, 0.80)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • dithered edges (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • stick figure (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Colors

  • black
  • yellow
  • cyan

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • four corner placement
  • central cyan pattern

Dense Caption

Four identical yellow stick figures positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners of a black square. Each figure has an oval head, vertical torso line, two angled arms extending outward, and two angled legs forming a V-shape. Cyan pixelated lines resembling lightning or static form irregular patterns along the edges and center of the image. The central cyan pattern is larger than edge patterns. All elements are rendered in 8-bit style with visible dithering.

Description

  • Black background with four yellow stick figures and cyan pixelated lightning-like patterns.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080106125017751113312

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow stick figures cyan lightning black background
  • four corner stick figures pixel art
  • cyan static patterns yellow figures
  • 8-bit style four corner figures

Objects

  • cyan lightning-like patterns

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • dithered edges

Subjects

  • stick figure

Wordwall

  • yellow stick figures
  • cyan lightning-like patterns
  • black background
  • four corners
  • oval heads
  • V-shaped legs
  • pixelated edges
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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
20080106125017751113312
Archive entry
20080106125017751113312.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#20080106125017751113312.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080106125017751113312.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016