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Four identical pixelated icons arranged in a , each featuring pink text on a white starburst shape against a solid blue background

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Four identical pixelated icons arranged in a , each featuring pink text on a white starburst shape against a solid blue background

Four identical pixelated icons arranged in a , each featuring pink text on a white starburst shape against a solid blue background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Source terms

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Composition

  • four identical icons in
  • centered text within starburst
  • solid background color

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical static icons arranged in a two-by-two grid. Each icon consists of a white, eight-pointed starburst shape with jagged edges set against a solid bright blue background. Inside the starburst, three lines of pink text are centered: 'Picture' on the top line, 'Hunt' on the middle line, and '300' on the bottom line. The text uses a pixelated sans-serif font typical of early digital graphics. All four icons share identical visual elements with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated icons arranged in a , each featuring pink text on a white starburst shape against a solid blue background

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
  • 20071113084021684259116

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • picture hunt 300
  • pink text blue background starburst
  • pixelated icon four identical copies
  • text-based digital graphic bright blue white pink

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical pixelated icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each featuring pink text on a white starburst shape against a solid blue background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four identical icons in 2x2 grid

Style

  • text-based icon

Visible Text

  • Picture
  • Hunt
  • 300

Wordwall

  • four identical icons
  • white starburst shape
  • bright blue background
  • pink text
  • 'Picture' line
  • 'Hunt' line
  • '300' line
  • pixelated font

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071113084021684259116
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:57 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2c/2c849b4d143dceaa54d15df2804b421a7299ca7a6e1758c9cb084e205078264a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:57 UTC
Archive ID
2c849b4d143dceaa
SHA-256
2c849b4d143dceaa54d15df2804b421a7299ca7a6e1758c9cb084e205078264a
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 18:03 UTC
Run
1201
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000019

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:30 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.201816

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Four identical pixelated icons arranged in a , each featuring pink text on a white starburst shape against a solid blue background

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 17:59 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,117 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 704

Review tags

  • bright blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • static image (other, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • text based icon (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Colors

  • bright blue
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • four identical icons in
  • centered text within starburst
  • solid background color

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical static icons arranged in a two-by-two grid. Each icon consists of a white, eight-pointed starburst shape with jagged edges set against a solid bright blue background. Inside the starburst, three lines of pink text are centered: 'Picture' on the top line, 'Hunt' on the middle line, and '300' on the bottom line. The text uses a pixelated sans-serif font typical of early digital graphics. All four icons share identical visual elements with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated icons arranged in a , each featuring pink text on a white starburst shape against a solid blue background

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
  • 20071113084021684259116

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • picture hunt 300
  • pink text blue background starburst
  • pixelated icon four identical copies
  • text-based digital graphic bright blue white pink

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical pixelated icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each featuring pink text on a white starburst shape against a solid blue background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four identical icons in 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital graphics
  • text-based icon

Visible Text

  • Picture
  • Hunt
  • 300

Wordwall

  • four identical icons
  • white starburst shape
  • bright blue background
  • pink text
  • 'Picture' line
  • 'Hunt' line
  • '300' line
  • pixelated font
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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
20071113084021684259116
Archive entry
20071113084021684259116.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:57 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#20071113084021684259116.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071113084021684259116.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016