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Yellow pixelated 'i y' text on pink background with scattered plus and star symbols, animated with shifting symbols.

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Yellow pixelated 'i y' text on pink background with scattered plus and star symbols, animated with shifting symbols.

Yellow pixelated 'i y' text on pink background with scattered plus and star symbols, animated with shifting symbols. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • symbols shift positions

Animation Summary

  • Scattered symbols shift positions across observations while text remains static.

Composition

  • three vertical
  • scattered symbols

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated 'i y' text appears in three vertical columns on a solid pink background. Scattered small symbols include plus signs, star shapes, and dot clusters. The symbols shift positions across observations: plus signs move from top-left to center, stars shift from center to right, and dot clusters appear at bottom. The text remains static while symbols animate. Pixelation indicates low-resolution rendering.

Description

  • Yellow pixelated 'i y' text on pink background with scattered plus and star symbols, animated with shifting symbols.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 200904191906501365847715

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow pixelated i y pink background
  • animated plus star dot symbols
  • three vertical pink background
  • low-resolution pixel art animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no cropping observed
  • quarantined wordwall: three vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: three vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: three vertical columns pink background

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • i y

Wordwall

  • yellow pixelated text
  • pink background
  • plus symbols
  • star symbols
  • dot clusters
  • three vertical
  • symbol shifting
  • low-resolution rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200904191906501365847715
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
683 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/31/3177dee90826e854fbd7072fa60eaa1bdd8316ccaaea618aefc3831b067569a2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
3177dee90826e854
SHA-256
3177dee90826e854fbd7072fa60eaa1bdd8316ccaaea618aefc3831b067569a2
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:35 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072530

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.936139onnx/unsafe0.072530onnx/nsfw0.038384onnx/nsfl0.034146
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Yellow pixelated 'i y' text on pink background with scattered plus and star symbols, animated with shifting symbols.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 07:20 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
4,963 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 754

Review tags

  • symbols shift positions (action, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dot clusters (object, 0.80)
  • plus signs (object, 0.80)
  • star shapes (object, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • symbols shift positions

Animation

  • symbols shift positions

Animation Summary

  • Scattered symbols shift positions across observations while text remains static.

Colors

  • pink
  • yellow

Composition

  • three vertical
  • scattered symbols

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated 'i y' text appears in three vertical columns on a solid pink background. Scattered small symbols include plus signs, star shapes, and dot clusters. The symbols shift positions across observations: plus signs move from top-left to center, stars shift from center to right, and dot clusters appear at bottom. The text remains static while symbols animate. Pixelation indicates low-resolution rendering.

Description

  • Yellow pixelated 'i y' text on pink background with scattered plus and star symbols, animated with shifting symbols.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 200904191906501365847715

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow pixelated i y pink background
  • animated plus star dot symbols
  • three vertical pink background
  • low-resolution pixel art animation

Objects

  • plus signs
  • star shapes
  • dot clusters

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no cropping observed
  • quarantined wordwall: three vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: three vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: three vertical columns pink background

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • animated

Visible Text

  • i y

Wordwall

  • yellow pixelated text
  • pink background
  • plus symbols
  • star symbols
  • dot clusters
  • three vertical
  • symbol shifting
  • low-resolution rendering
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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
200904191906501365847715
Archive entry
200904191906501365847715.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#200904191906501365847715.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904191906501365847715.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016