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A static image with a solid magenta background, scattered white dots, and multiple blue 'I' characters

A static image with a solid magenta background, scattered white dots, and multiple blue 'I' characters. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • six blue 'I's arranged in across magenta background
  • gray rectangle at bottom-right corner
  • white speckles scattered throughout

Dense Caption

Solid magenta background fills the entire frame. White pixelated dots are distributed across the background as small scattered speckles. Six distinct blue 'I' characters appear: one at top-left, one at top-center-left, one at top-center-right, one at middle-left, one at middle-center, and one at bottom-left. A solid gray rectangular shape occupies the bottom-right corner of the frame. All elements are static with no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • A static image with a solid magenta background, scattered white dots, and multiple blue 'I' characters

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
  • 200710211314341801965499

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • magenta background blue I characters
  • blue I's white speckles gray rectangle
  • static image magenta background
  • six blue I characters arranged

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static image with a solid magenta background, scattered white dots, and multiple blue 'I' characters arranged in rows.
  • quarantined composition: six blue 'I's arranged in rows across magenta background
  • quarantined retrieval: six blue I characters arranged rows

Visible Text

  • I

Wordwall

  • magenta background
  • white speckles
  • blue 'I' characters
  • gray rectangle
  • six blue 'I's
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710211314341801965499
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
984 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/27/27c8ceea917372cd774908d21adc2fbf9aa1269c24ae59828cf7f025d08ce03f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC
Archive ID
27c8ceea917372cd
SHA-256
27c8ceea917372cd774908d21adc2fbf9aa1269c24ae59828cf7f025d08ce03f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:25 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.154333

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.902374onnx/unsafe0.154333onnx/nsfw0.121129onnx/nsfl0.033204
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A static image with a solid magenta background, scattered white dots, and multiple blue 'I' characters

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 11:49 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,619 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,121, response 688

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blue i characters (object, 0.80)
  • magenta background (object, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • blue i character (subject, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (subject, 0.80)
  • white speckles (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • magenta
  • white
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • six blue 'I's arranged in across magenta background
  • gray rectangle at bottom-right corner
  • white speckles scattered throughout

Dense Caption

Solid magenta background fills the entire frame. White pixelated dots are distributed across the background as small scattered speckles. Six distinct blue 'I' characters appear: one at top-left, one at top-center-left, one at top-center-right, one at middle-left, one at middle-center, and one at bottom-left. A solid gray rectangular shape occupies the bottom-right corner of the frame. All elements are static with no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • A static image with a solid magenta background, scattered white dots, and multiple blue 'I' characters

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
  • 200710211314341801965499

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • magenta background blue I characters
  • blue I's white speckles gray rectangle
  • static image magenta background
  • six blue I characters arranged

Objects

  • magenta background
  • white speckles
  • blue 'I' characters
  • gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static image with a solid magenta background, scattered white dots, and multiple blue 'I' characters arranged in rows.
  • quarantined composition: six blue 'I's arranged in rows across magenta background
  • quarantined retrieval: six blue I characters arranged rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • minimalist
  • static

Subjects

  • blue 'I' character
  • white speckles
  • gray rectangle

Visible Text

  • I

Wordwall

  • magenta background
  • white speckles
  • blue 'I' characters
  • gray rectangle
  • six blue 'I's
  • static image
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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
200710211314341801965499
Archive entry
200710211314341801965499.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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#200710211314341801965499.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710211314341801965499.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016