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Blue background with white polka dots and repeated 'POLKA DORK' text in dark brown pixelated font.

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Blue background with white polka dots and repeated 'POLKA DORK' text in dark brown pixelated font.

Blue background with white polka dots and repeated 'POLKA DORK' text in dark brown pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three text instances
  • polka dot background
  • solid gray rectangle on right side

Dense Caption

The image features a blue background covered with evenly spaced white circular polka dots. Three instances of the text 'POLKA DORK' appear in dark brown, pixelated block letters: one near the top-left, one near the top-right, and one near the bottom-left. The right side of the image contains a solid gray rectangular area that partially overlaps the background pattern.

Description

  • Blue background with white polka dots and repeated 'POLKA DORK' text in dark brown pixelated font.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 20071117192443593096498

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polka dork blue polka dots
  • blue background white dots polka dork text
  • gray rectangle polka dot background
  • dark brown pixelated polka dork

Visible Text

  • POLKA DORK

Wordwall

  • blue polka dot background
  • white circular dots
  • 'POLKA DORK' text
  • dark brown pixelated font
  • gray rectangle on right

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071117192443593096498
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2b/2be306eb6479b769656cce45f7f958ddaa084e32125732dd777b1e0b5860071c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 UTC
Archive ID
2be306eb6479b769
SHA-256
2be306eb6479b769656cce45f7f958ddaa084e32125732dd777b1e0b5860071c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:29 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076924

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with white polka dots and repeated 'POLKA DORK' text in dark brown pixelated font.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 19:42 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,060 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 656

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive pattern (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • dark brown
  • gray

Composition

  • three text instances
  • polka dot background
  • solid gray rectangle on right side

Dense Caption

The image features a blue background covered with evenly spaced white circular polka dots. Three instances of the text 'POLKA DORK' appear in dark brown, pixelated block letters: one near the top-left, one near the top-right, and one near the bottom-left. The right side of the image contains a solid gray rectangular area that partially overlaps the background pattern.

Description

  • Blue background with white polka dots and repeated 'POLKA DORK' text in dark brown pixelated font.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 20071117192443593096498

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polka dork blue polka dots
  • blue background white dots polka dork text
  • gray rectangle polka dot background
  • dark brown pixelated polka dork

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text
  • repetitive pattern

Visible Text

  • POLKA DORK

Wordwall

  • blue polka dot background
  • white circular dots
  • 'POLKA DORK' text
  • dark brown pixelated font
  • gray rectangle on right
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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
20071117192443593096498
Archive entry
20071117192443593096498.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 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#20071117192443593096498.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071117192443593096498.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016