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Blue background with white pixelated text 'FAVA' and asterisk symbols arranged in a symmetrical pattern, bordered by dotted lines.

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Blue background with white pixelated text 'FAVA' and asterisk symbols arranged in a symmetrical pattern, bordered by dotted lines.

Blue background with white pixelated text 'FAVA' and asterisk symbols arranged in a symmetrical pattern, bordered by dotted lines. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central cross of dotted lines
  • four 'FAVA' text blocks
  • eight corner asterisks

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. White pixelated text 'FAVA' appears four times: top-center, bottom-center, left-center, right-center. Each 'FAVA' is flanked by two white asterisks on either side. Vertical and horizontal dotted white lines intersect at the center, forming a cross. Eight white asterisk symbols are positioned at each corner of the central cross structure. All elements maintain fixed positions with no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Blue background with white pixelated text 'FAVA' and asterisk symbols arranged in a symmetrical pattern, bordered by dotted lines.

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
  • 200712061758581875170282

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background fava asterisk
  • fava text symmetrical pattern
  • pixelated fava dotted lines
  • white fava blue background

Visible Text

  • FAVA

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'FAVA' repeated four times
  • asterisks flanking 'FAVA'
  • dotted lines forming cross
  • symmetrical arrangement

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712061758581875170282
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
672 bytes
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 15:02 UTC
Archive ID
1eef3dc2b51f049f
SHA-256
1eef3dc2b51f049f4434adf37ba0f8a429184f598fae0f82907a74762f981693
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:16 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.126986

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with white pixelated text 'FAVA' and asterisk symbols arranged in a symmetrical pattern, bordered by dotted lines.

Reviewed
July 30, 2026 at 23:46 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,143 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 651

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • symmetrical (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • central cross of dotted lines
  • four 'FAVA' text blocks
  • eight corner asterisks

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. White pixelated text 'FAVA' appears four times: top-center, bottom-center, left-center, right-center. Each 'FAVA' is flanked by two white asterisks on either side. Vertical and horizontal dotted white lines intersect at the center, forming a cross. Eight white asterisk symbols are positioned at each corner of the central cross structure. All elements maintain fixed positions with no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Blue background with white pixelated text 'FAVA' and asterisk symbols arranged in a symmetrical pattern, bordered by dotted lines.

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
  • 200712061758581875170282

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background fava asterisk
  • fava text symmetrical pattern
  • pixelated fava dotted lines
  • white fava blue background

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • symmetrical

Visible Text

  • FAVA

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'FAVA' repeated four times
  • asterisks flanking 'FAVA'
  • dotted lines forming cross
  • symmetrical arrangement
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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
200712061758581875170282
Archive entry
200712061758581875170282.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 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#200712061758581875170282.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712061758581875170282.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016