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Pixelated text and blue lightning-like patterns on a black background, repeated in two identical sections.

Pixelated text and blue lightning-like patterns on a black background, repeated in two identical sections. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Source terms

Composition

  • two identical vertical text blocks
  • centered layout
  • repeating pattern

Dense Caption

Black background with bright blue pixelated lightning or crackle effects forming an irregular border. Two identical vertical blocks of white pixelated text: top line 'CO', followed by 'Brandon', then 'BlackHwaks' (with 'k' and 's' reversed), '#75', '8-0'. Text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. The layout repeats exactly on both sides with no visible differences between the two sections.

Description

  • Pixelated text and blue lightning-like patterns on a black background, repeated in two identical sections.

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
  • 2007101718034435803270

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background blue lightning white text CO Brandon BlackHwaks #75 8-0
  • pixelated text repeated blocks
  • low-resolution graphics black background
  • blue crackle border white pixel font

Visible Text

  • CO
  • Brandon
  • BlackHwaks
  • #75
  • 8-0

Wordwall

  • black background
  • blue lightning border
  • white pixelated text
  • CO Brandon BlackHwaks #75 8-0
  • repeated identical blocks
  • blocky font style
  • low-resolution graphics

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2007101718034435803270
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/22/2293e3f96ea0ab666bf5681129ab62e33b3495e4af771ba28e7cf259fb5b4a7f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC
Archive ID
2293e3f96ea0ab66
SHA-256
2293e3f96ea0ab666bf5681129ab62e33b3495e4af771ba28e7cf259fb5b4a7f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:19 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.099882

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and blue lightning-like patterns on a black background, repeated in two identical sections.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 10:50 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,757 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 672

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • two identical vertical text blocks
  • centered layout
  • repeating pattern

Dense Caption

Black background with bright blue pixelated lightning or crackle effects forming an irregular border. Two identical vertical blocks of white pixelated text: top line 'CO', followed by 'Brandon', then 'BlackHwaks' (with 'k' and 's' reversed), '#75', '8-0'. Text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. The layout repeats exactly on both sides with no visible differences between the two sections.

Description

  • Pixelated text and blue lightning-like patterns on a black background, repeated in two identical sections.

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
  • 2007101718034435803270

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background blue lightning white text CO Brandon BlackHwaks #75 8-0
  • pixelated text repeated blocks
  • low-resolution graphics black background
  • blue crackle border white pixel font

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • CO
  • Brandon
  • BlackHwaks
  • #75
  • 8-0

Wordwall

  • black background
  • blue lightning border
  • white pixelated text
  • CO Brandon BlackHwaks #75 8-0
  • repeated identical blocks
  • blocky font style
  • low-resolution graphics
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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
2007101718034435803270
Archive entry
2007101718034435803270.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 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#2007101718034435803270.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2007101718034435803270.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016