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Pixelated text and symbols on a cyan background with two variations of pink and purple asterisks below the date.

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Pixelated text and symbols on a cyan background with two variations of pink and purple asterisks below the date.

Pixelated text and symbols on a cyan background with two variations of pink and purple asterisks below the date. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Source terms

Animation

  • symbol positions change: second and third symbols swap between variations

Animation Summary

  • Two variations show symbol positions swapping: second and third symbols change order between frames.

Composition

  • text stacked vertically top-to-bottom
  • symbols horizontally aligned below date

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays white pixelated text: 'ALEXA' at top, '+' centered below it, 'GARY' beneath that, '2-11-08' as date. Below date are five symbols: leftmost is pink asterisk, second is pink plus sign, third is purple asterisk, fourth is pink plus sign, fifth is pink asterisk in first variation; second variation swaps second and third symbols (pink plus then purple asterisk). All text uses blocky 8-bit font. Symbols are small pixelated shapes.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on a cyan background with two variations of pink and purple asterisks below the date.

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
  • 200802121548101245994015
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • alexa gary 2-11-08 cyan background
  • pixelated text pink purple symbols
  • cyan white pink purple animation
  • alexa plus gary date symbols

Visible Text

  • ALEXA
  • +
  • GARY
  • 2-11-08

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • white pixelated text
  • ALEXA
  • +
  • GARY
  • 2-11-08
  • five symbols below date
  • pink asterisks
  • purple asterisk
  • pink plus signs

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802121548101245994015
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
308 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 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 15:14 UTC
Archive ID
1b2dcc2c5bd1f6e3
SHA-256
1b2dcc2c5bd1f6e3d24fe6bdd19f1b75ac20134e5703f4fd8b3209bad9776e5d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:12 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081598

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and symbols on a cyan background with two variations of pink and purple asterisks below the date.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 20:53 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,317 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 717

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • symbol positions change: second and third symbols swap between variations

Animation Summary

  • Two variations show symbol positions swapping: second and third symbols change order between frames.

Colors

  • cyan
  • white
  • pink
  • purple

Composition

  • text stacked vertically top-to-bottom
  • symbols horizontally aligned below date

Dense Caption

Cyan background displays white pixelated text: 'ALEXA' at top, '+' centered below it, 'GARY' beneath that, '2-11-08' as date. Below date are five symbols: leftmost is pink asterisk, second is pink plus sign, third is purple asterisk, fourth is pink plus sign, fifth is pink asterisk in first variation; second variation swaps second and third symbols (pink plus then purple asterisk). All text uses blocky 8-bit font. Symbols are small pixelated shapes.

Description

  • Pixelated text and symbols on a cyan background with two variations of pink and purple asterisks below the date.

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
  • 200802121548101245994015
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • alexa gary 2-11-08 cyan background
  • pixelated text pink purple symbols
  • cyan white pink purple animation
  • alexa plus gary date symbols

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • ALEXA
  • +
  • GARY
  • 2-11-08

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • white pixelated text
  • ALEXA
  • +
  • GARY
  • 2-11-08
  • five symbols below date
  • pink asterisks
  • purple asterisk
  • pink plus signs
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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
200802121548101245994015
Archive entry
200802121548101245994015.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 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#200802121548101245994015.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802121548101245994015.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016