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Static digital image with light blue background displaying repeated text and symbols in black pixelated font across three

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Static digital image with light blue background displaying repeated text and symbols in black pixelated font across three

Static digital image with light blue background displaying repeated text and symbols in black pixelated font across three. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; image remains static with identical content across all observations.

Composition

  • three identical horizontal
  • repeated text and symbols

Dense Caption

Light blue background contains three identical horizontal rows of black pixelated text. Each row displays 'Christie' above two small stacked symbols, then 'George', followed by partial text reading 'est Friends'. The symbols appear as two overlapping rounded shapes resembling stylized figures or icons. Text is rendered in a low-resolution digital font typical of early 2000s web graphics. No visible animation changes occur across observations; the image remains static with identical content throughout all frames.

Description

  • Static digital image with light blue background displaying repeated text and symbols in black pixelated font across three

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 200711071652581071186950

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light blue background pixelated text
  • Christie George est Friends repeated symbols
  • three low resolution digital font

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Static digital image with light blue background displaying repeated text and symbols in black pixelated font across three rows.
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined composition: three identical horizontal rows
  • quarantined retrieval: three rows low resolution digital font

Uncertain Text

  • est Friends

Visible Text

  • Christie
  • George
  • est Friends

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • black pixelated text
  • three
  • Christie above symbols
  • George below symbols
  • partial 'est Friends' text
  • two stacked rounded shapes
  • low-resolution digital font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711071652581071186950
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/1e/1e746c26f6a146eeb00e668c21ff01d31cf1eccc8a18f4431284ba7c7674b4d8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC
Archive ID
1e746c26f6a146ee
SHA-256
1e746c26f6a146eeb00e668c21ff01d31cf1eccc8a18f4431284ba7c7674b4d8
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:15 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.122504

OpenAI category scores

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Static digital image with light blue background displaying repeated text and symbols in black pixelated font across three

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,067 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 612

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • digital (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; image remains static with identical content across all observations.

Colors

  • light blue
  • black

Composition

  • three identical horizontal
  • repeated text and symbols

Dense Caption

Light blue background contains three identical horizontal rows of black pixelated text. Each row displays 'Christie' above two small stacked symbols, then 'George', followed by partial text reading 'est Friends'. The symbols appear as two overlapping rounded shapes resembling stylized figures or icons. Text is rendered in a low-resolution digital font typical of early 2000s web graphics. No visible animation changes occur across observations; the image remains static with identical content throughout all frames.

Description

  • Static digital image with light blue background displaying repeated text and symbols in black pixelated font across three

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 200711071652581071186950

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light blue background pixelated text
  • Christie George est Friends repeated symbols
  • three low resolution digital font

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Static digital image with light blue background displaying repeated text and symbols in black pixelated font across three rows.
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined composition: three identical horizontal rows
  • quarantined retrieval: three rows low resolution digital font

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital
  • static

Uncertain Text

  • est Friends

Visible Text

  • Christie
  • George
  • est Friends

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • black pixelated text
  • three
  • Christie above symbols
  • George below symbols
  • partial 'est Friends' text
  • two stacked rounded shapes
  • low-resolution digital font
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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
200711071652581071186950
Archive entry
200711071652581071186950.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 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#200711071652581071186950.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711071652581071186950.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016