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A static image with a black background and blue abstract patterns, displaying white text arranged in three vertical

A static image with a black background and blue abstract patterns, displaying white text arranged in three vertical. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three vertical of text
  • stacked line breaks between words
  • text aligned left within each

Dense Caption

Black background features light blue abstract branching patterns. Three distinct vertical columns of white pixelated text: left column reads 'a best friend smile on your', middle column reads 'can look at face & ask what's', right column reads 'you with a wrong'. Text is arranged in stacked lines, each word or phrase separated by line breaks. All text uses the same sans-serif font style.

Description

  • A static image with a black background and blue abstract patterns, displaying white text arranged in three vertical

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
  • 20080210141444136281917

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • a best friend smile on your
  • can look at face ask what's
  • you with a wrong

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static image with a black background and blue abstract patterns, displaying white text arranged in three vertical columns.
  • quarantined wordwall: three vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: text aligned left within each column
  • quarantined composition: three vertical columns of text

Uncertain Text

  • what's
  • you
  • with
  • a
  • wrong

Visible Text

  • a
  • best
  • friend
  • smile
  • on
  • your
  • can
  • look
  • at
  • face
  • &
  • ask

Wordwall

  • black background
  • light blue abstract patterns
  • white pixelated text
  • three vertical
  • a best friend smile on your
  • can look at face & ask what's
  • you with a wrong

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080210141444136281917
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.8 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/23/239ebc26a37d6e5e57a3426b643d6190e23940550c7d4796b178bdb576b07bbc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC
Archive ID
239ebc26a37d6e5e
SHA-256
239ebc26a37d6e5e57a3426b643d6190e23940550c7d4796b178bdb576b07bbc
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:21 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078929

OpenAI category scores

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A static image with a black background and blue abstract patterns, displaying white text arranged in three vertical

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 19:57 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,762 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,168, response 638

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • abstract background patterns (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated text (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • light blue
  • white

Composition

  • three vertical of text
  • stacked line breaks between words
  • text aligned left within each

Dense Caption

Black background features light blue abstract branching patterns. Three distinct vertical columns of white pixelated text: left column reads 'a best friend smile on your', middle column reads 'can look at face & ask what's', right column reads 'you with a wrong'. Text is arranged in stacked lines, each word or phrase separated by line breaks. All text uses the same sans-serif font style.

Description

  • A static image with a black background and blue abstract patterns, displaying white text arranged in three vertical

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
  • 20080210141444136281917

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • a best friend smile on your
  • can look at face ask what's
  • you with a wrong

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static image with a black background and blue abstract patterns, displaying white text arranged in three vertical columns.
  • quarantined wordwall: three vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: text aligned left within each column
  • quarantined composition: three vertical columns of text

Style

  • pixelated text
  • abstract background patterns

Uncertain Text

  • what's
  • you
  • with
  • a
  • wrong

Visible Text

  • a
  • best
  • friend
  • smile
  • on
  • your
  • can
  • look
  • at
  • face
  • &
  • ask

Wordwall

  • black background
  • light blue abstract patterns
  • white pixelated text
  • three vertical
  • a best friend smile on your
  • can look at face & ask what's
  • you with a wrong
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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
20080210141444136281917
Archive entry
20080210141444136281917.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#20080210141444136281917.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080210141444136281917.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016