Buddy Icon Archive Preserving the tiny pictures that made the internet personal.
Pixelated text 'once in a lifetime' appears on four distinct backgrounds with varying blue gradients and black areas.

Permanent icon record

Pixelated text 'once in a lifetime' appears on four distinct backgrounds with varying blue gradients and black areas.

Pixelated text 'once in a lifetime' appears on four distinct backgrounds with varying blue gradients and black areas. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

A visual description has not been added yet. The archival record below is still available.

Download original

About this icon

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • background gradient changes across views

Animation Summary

The background gradient shifts across four views: solid black → dark blue radial gradient → bright blue radial gradient → medium blue radial gradient.

Composition

  • four
  • vertical text layout
  • centered alignment

Dense Caption

Four views of the phrase 'once in a lifetime' rendered in white pixelated font. Top-left view: solid black background. Top-right view: dark blue radial gradient background. Bottom-left view: bright blue radial gradient background. Bottom-right view: medium blue radial gradient background. All text is vertically centered with consistent spacing between lines.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'once in a lifetime' appears on four distinct backgrounds with varying blue gradients and black areas.

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
  • 200801081441251981379513

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • once in a lifetime pixelated text
  • blue gradient background text
  • four text icon
  • pixel font once in a lifetime

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel text icon

Visible Text

  • once in a lifetime

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • 'once in a lifetime'
  • solid black background
  • dark blue radial gradient
  • bright blue radial gradient
  • medium blue radial gradient
  • vertical text alignment

Explore related icons

Browse all categories · How source collections are preserved

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801081441251981379513
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/26/263787c2427da22c9555291d93dc3a2b1e38fe36869add854b3a50aa3fff810d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
Archive ID
263787c2427da22c
SHA-256
263787c2427da22c9555291d93dc3a2b1e38fe36869add854b3a50aa3fff810d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:23 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075045

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.934484onnx/unsafe0.075045onnx/nsfl0.038610onnx/nsfw0.036435
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated text 'once in a lifetime' appears on four distinct backgrounds with varying blue gradients and black areas.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 08:49 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,167 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 629

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • background gradient changes across views (other, 0.80)
  • gradient background (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • background gradient changes across views

Animation Summary

The background gradient shifts across four views: solid black → dark blue radial gradient → bright blue radial gradient → medium blue radial gradient.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • blue

Composition

  • four
  • vertical text layout
  • centered alignment

Dense Caption

Four views of the phrase 'once in a lifetime' rendered in white pixelated font. Top-left view: solid black background. Top-right view: dark blue radial gradient background. Bottom-left view: bright blue radial gradient background. Bottom-right view: medium blue radial gradient background. All text is vertically centered with consistent spacing between lines.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'once in a lifetime' appears on four distinct backgrounds with varying blue gradients and black areas.

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
  • 200801081441251981379513

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • once in a lifetime pixelated text
  • blue gradient background text
  • four text icon
  • pixel font once in a lifetime

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel text icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • gradient background

Visible Text

  • once in a lifetime

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • 'once in a lifetime'
  • solid black background
  • dark blue radial gradient
  • bright blue radial gradient
  • medium blue radial gradient
  • vertical text alignment
Raw JSON
{
  "inputIndex": 0,
  "sha256": "263787c2427da22c9555291d93dc3a2b1e38fe36869add854b3a50aa3fff810d",
  "description": "Pixelated text \u0027once in a lifetime\u0027 appears on four distinct backgrounds with varying blue gradients and black areas.",
  "denseCaption": "Four views of the phrase \u0027once in a lifetime\u0027 rendered in white pixelated font. Top-left view: solid black background. Top-right view: dark blue radial gradient background. Bottom-left view: bright blue radial gradient background. Bottom-right view: medium blue radial gradient background. All text is vertically centered with consistent spacing between lines.",
  "wordwall": [
    "white pixelated text",
    "\u0027once in a lifetime\u0027",
    "solid black background",
    "dark blue radial gradient",
    "bright blue radial gradient",
    "medium blue radial gradient",
    "vertical text alignment"
  ],
  "visibleText": [
    "once in a lifetime"
  ],
  "uncertainText": [],
  "subjects": [],
  "actions": [],
  "objects": [],
  "colors": [
    "black",
    "white",
    "blue"
  ],
  "style": [
    "pixelated",
    "text-based",
    "gradient background"
  ],
  "composition": [
    "four",
    "vertical text layout",
    "centered alignment"
  ],
  "mood": [],
  "animation": [
    "background gradient changes across views"
  ],
  "preprocessingNotes": [
    "quarantined composition: four-panel grid",
    "quarantined retrieval: four panel text icon"
  ],
  "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [],
  "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
  "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
    "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"
  ],
  "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
  "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
  "metadataOnlyEntities": [
    "franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016",
    "2007-2016",
    "franksicons",
    "200801081441251981379513"
  ],
  "identityHypotheses": [],
  "namedEntities": [],
  "fandoms": [],
  "animationSummary": "The background gradient shifts across four views: solid black \u2192 dark blue radial gradient \u2192 bright blue radial gradient \u2192 medium blue radial gradient.",
  "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
    "once in a lifetime pixelated text",
    "blue gradient background text",
    "four text icon",
    "pixel font once in a lifetime"
  ],
  "uncertainty": [],
  "aestheticStrengths": [],
  "aestheticWeaknesses": [],
  "tags": [
    {
      "tag": "pixelated",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: pixelated"
    },
    {
      "tag": "text based",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: text-based"
    },
    {
      "tag": "gradient background",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: gradient background"
    },
    {
      "tag": "black",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: black"
    },
    {
      "tag": "white",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: white"
    },
    {
      "tag": "blue",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: blue"
    },
    {
      "tag": "background gradient changes across views",
      "category": "other",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: background gradient changes across views"
    }
  ],
  "rawModelResponse": {
    "icons": [
      {
        "inputIndex": 0,
        "sha256": "263787c2427da22c9555291d93dc3a2b1e38fe36869add854b3a50aa3fff810d",
        "description": "Pixelated text \u0027once in a lifetime\u0027 appears on four distinct backgrounds with varying blue gradients and black areas.",
        "denseCaption": "Four views of the phrase \u0027once in a lifetime\u0027 rendered in white pixelated font. Top-left view: solid black background. Top-right view: dark blue radial gradient background. Bottom-left view: bright blue radial gradient background. Bottom-right view: medium blue radial gradient background. All text is vertically centered with consistent spacing between lines.",
        "wordwall": [
          "white pixelated text",
          "\u0027once in a lifetime\u0027",
          "solid black background",
          "dark blue radial gradient",
          "bright blue radial gradient",
          "medium blue radial gradient",
          "vertical text alignment"
        ],
        "visibleText": [
          "once in a lifetime"
        ],
        "uncertainText": [],
        "subjects": [],
        "actions": [],
        "objects": [],
        "colors": [
          "black",
          "white",
          "blue"
        ],
        "style": [
          "pixelated",
          "text-based",
          "gradient background"
        ],
        "composition": [
          "four-panel grid",
          "vertical text layout",
          "centered alignment"
        ],
        "mood": [],
        "animation": [
          "background gradient changes across views"
        ],
        "preprocessingNotes": [],
        "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [],
        "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
        "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
          "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"
        ],
        "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
        "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
        "metadataOnlyEntities": [
          "franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016",
          "2007-2016",
          "franksicons",
          "200801081441251981379513"
        ],
        "identityHypotheses": [],
        "namedEntities": [],
        "fandoms": [],
        "animationSummary": "The background gradient shifts across four views: solid black \u2192 dark blue radial gradient \u2192 bright blue radial gradient \u2192 medium blue radial gradient.",
        "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
          "once in a lifetime pixelated text",
          "blue gradient background text",
          "four panel text icon",
          "pixel font once in a lifetime"
        ],
        "tags": []
      }
    ]
  }
}
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200801081441251981379513
Archive entry
200801081441251981379513.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 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#200801081441251981379513.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801081441251981379513.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016