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Pixelated blue text 'BUBBLY' appears four times on a light blue background with white circular patterns and one wavy line.

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Pixelated blue text 'BUBBLY' appears four times on a light blue background with white circular patterns and one wavy line.

Pixelated blue text 'BUBBLY' appears four times on a light blue background with white circular patterns and one wavy line. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four corner placement
  • repeating pattern background
  • horizontal wavy line element

Dense Caption

Light blue background features repeating white circle patterns. Four instances of the word 'BUBBLY' in dark blue pixelated font are positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners. A single horizontal wavy line composed of white pixels is present below the top-right text instance. All elements maintain consistent spacing across the frame.

Description

  • Pixelated blue text 'BUBBLY' appears four times on a light blue background with white circular patterns and one wavy line.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709211907451562394628

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light blue background white circles
  • four bubbly text instances
  • dark blue pixelated font
  • horizontal wavy line

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined style: grid layout

Visible Text

  • BUBBLY

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • white circular patterns
  • four 'BUBBLY' instances
  • dark blue pixelated font
  • horizontal wavy line

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709211907451562394628
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
Archive ID
1a4a97f1eb0216b3
SHA-256
1a4a97f1eb0216b30517cb64625b0f60caf6d278083ed807c3ed13a1e94ed87d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:11 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.099532

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated blue text 'BUBBLY' appears four times on a light blue background with white circular patterns and one wavy line.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 03:36 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,589 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 641

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • white
  • dark blue

Composition

  • four corner placement
  • repeating pattern background
  • horizontal wavy line element

Dense Caption

Light blue background features repeating white circle patterns. Four instances of the word 'BUBBLY' in dark blue pixelated font are positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners. A single horizontal wavy line composed of white pixels is present below the top-right text instance. All elements maintain consistent spacing across the frame.

Description

  • Pixelated blue text 'BUBBLY' appears four times on a light blue background with white circular patterns and one wavy line.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709211907451562394628

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light blue background white circles
  • four bubbly text instances
  • dark blue pixelated font
  • horizontal wavy line

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined style: grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • BUBBLY

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • white circular patterns
  • four 'BUBBLY' instances
  • dark blue pixelated font
  • horizontal wavy line
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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
200709211907451562394628
Archive entry
200709211907451562394628.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 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#200709211907451562394628.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709211907451562394628.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016