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Red background with yellow 'GABBY' text flanked by left-pointing chevrons, green plus and X symbols scattered across the frame.

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Red background with yellow 'GABBY' text flanked by left-pointing chevrons, green plus and X symbols scattered across the frame.

Red background with yellow 'GABBY' text flanked by left-pointing chevrons, green plus and X symbols scattered across the frame. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • green plus symbols shift from top to middle
  • green X symbols appear in middle
  • green dots appear in bottom

Animation Summary

  • Green plus symbols shift from top to middle , green X symbols appear in middle , green dots appear in bottom

Composition

  • three horizontal
  • text flanked by chevrons
  • scattered symbols

Dense Caption

Red background with three horizontal rows of yellow text reading 'GABBY' flanked by left-pointing chevrons. Green plus symbols appear in the top row, green X symbols in the middle row, and green plus symbols in the bottom row. The green symbols shift position across frames: top row has three green plus symbols, middle row has one green plus and two green X symbols, bottom row has one green plus and scattered green dots. All text and symbols are rendered in a pixelated style.

Description

  • Red background with yellow 'GABBY' text flanked by left-pointing chevrons, green plus and X symbols scattered across the frame.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background yellow text GABBY chevrons
  • green plus symbols green X symbols
  • three horizontal pixelated
  • symbol position shifts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Green plus symbols shift from top row to middle row, green X symbols appear in middle row, green dots appear in bottom row.
  • quarantined wordwall: three horizontal rows
  • quarantined composition: three horizontal rows
  • quarantined animation: green dots appear in bottom row
  • quarantined animation: green X symbols appear in middle row
  • quarantined animation: green plus symbols shift from top row to middle row
  • quarantined retrieval: three horizontal rows pixelated

Visible Text

  • GABBY

Wordwall

  • red background
  • yellow text
  • GABBY
  • left-pointing chevrons
  • green plus symbols
  • green X symbols
  • green dots
  • pixelated style
  • three horizontal
  • symbol position shifts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809211409581043938190
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2e/2e0ef96e96dc58dd62680b360f8f0b098fb57c260a08165f4cf8f56e0d64f361.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
2e0ef96e96dc58dd
SHA-256
2e0ef96e96dc58dd62680b360f8f0b098fb57c260a08165f4cf8f56e0d64f361
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:31 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081215

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with yellow 'GABBY' text flanked by left-pointing chevrons, green plus and X symbols scattered across the frame.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 01:07 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,695 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 692

Review tags

  • symbol position shifts (action, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • green dots (object, 0.80)
  • green plus symbols (object, 0.80)
  • green x symbols (object, 0.80)
  • green plus symbols shift from top to middle (other, 0.80)
  • green x symbols appear in middle (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • symbol position shifts

Animation

  • green plus symbols shift from top to middle
  • green X symbols appear in middle
  • green dots appear in bottom

Animation Summary

  • Green plus symbols shift from top to middle , green X symbols appear in middle , green dots appear in bottom

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • green

Composition

  • three horizontal
  • text flanked by chevrons
  • scattered symbols

Dense Caption

Red background with three horizontal rows of yellow text reading 'GABBY' flanked by left-pointing chevrons. Green plus symbols appear in the top row, green X symbols in the middle row, and green plus symbols in the bottom row. The green symbols shift position across frames: top row has three green plus symbols, middle row has one green plus and two green X symbols, bottom row has one green plus and scattered green dots. All text and symbols are rendered in a pixelated style.

Description

  • Red background with yellow 'GABBY' text flanked by left-pointing chevrons, green plus and X symbols scattered across the frame.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background yellow text GABBY chevrons
  • green plus symbols green X symbols
  • three horizontal pixelated
  • symbol position shifts

Objects

  • green plus symbols
  • green X symbols
  • green dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Green plus symbols shift from top row to middle row, green X symbols appear in middle row, green dots appear in bottom row.
  • quarantined wordwall: three horizontal rows
  • quarantined composition: three horizontal rows
  • quarantined animation: green dots appear in bottom row
  • quarantined animation: green X symbols appear in middle row
  • quarantined animation: green plus symbols shift from top row to middle row
  • quarantined retrieval: three horizontal rows pixelated

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • repetitive

Visible Text

  • GABBY

Wordwall

  • red background
  • yellow text
  • GABBY
  • left-pointing chevrons
  • green plus symbols
  • green X symbols
  • green dots
  • pixelated style
  • three horizontal
  • symbol position shifts
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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
200809211409581043938190
Archive entry
200809211409581043938190.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#200809211409581043938190.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809211409581043938190.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016