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Black background with white pixelated text 'colin austin ruby' in four quadrants, each with distinct animated symbols above the text.

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Black background with white pixelated text 'colin austin ruby' in four quadrants, each with distinct animated symbols above the text.

Black background with white pixelated text 'colin austin ruby' in four quadrants, each with distinct animated symbols above the text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart symbol appears
  • starburst symbol appears
  • circular symbol appears

Animation Summary

  • Symbols animate independently: heart appears top-left, starburst appears top-right, circular symbol appears bottom-left.

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text below symbols

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text 'colin austin ruby' in four quadrants. Top-left quadrant has a white pixelated heart symbol above the text. Top-right quadrant has a white pixelated starburst symbol above the text. Bottom-left quadrant has a white pixelated circular symbol above the text. Bottom-right quadrant has no symbol above the text. All text is in lowercase with consistent pixelated font. Symbols animate independently across observations.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text 'colin austin ruby' in four quadrants, each with distinct animated symbols above the text.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200812031500281968037265
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • colin austin ruby text
  • white pixelated heart
  • white pixelated starburst
  • white pixelated circular symbol
  • black background text
  • four quadrants text
  • animated symbols text
  • pixelated text symbols

Objects

  • heart
  • starburst

Visible Text

  • colin
  • austin
  • ruby

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • colin austin ruby
  • black background
  • heart symbol
  • starburst symbol
  • circular symbol
  • animated symbols
  • four quadrants

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812031500281968037265
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
307 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC
Archive ID
31f0983bc83e6d9f
SHA-256
31f0983bc83e6d9fbd84ef0be1d7c7e6d2325a3af54d8da7c4c7e9759374573c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.076161

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with white pixelated text 'colin austin ruby' in four quadrants, each with distinct animated symbols above the text.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 12:02 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,801 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 718

Review tags

  • symbols animate (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • circular (object, 0.80)
  • heart (object, 0.80)
  • starburst (object, 0.80)
  • heart symbol appears (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • symbols animate

Animation

  • heart symbol appears
  • starburst symbol appears
  • circular symbol appears

Animation Summary

  • Symbols animate independently: heart appears top-left, starburst appears top-right, circular symbol appears bottom-left.

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text below symbols

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text 'colin austin ruby' in four quadrants. Top-left quadrant has a white pixelated heart symbol above the text. Top-right quadrant has a white pixelated starburst symbol above the text. Bottom-left quadrant has a white pixelated circular symbol above the text. Bottom-right quadrant has no symbol above the text. All text is in lowercase with consistent pixelated font. Symbols animate independently across observations.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text 'colin austin ruby' in four quadrants, each with distinct animated symbols above the text.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200812031500281968037265
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • colin austin ruby text
  • white pixelated heart
  • white pixelated starburst
  • white pixelated circular symbol
  • black background text
  • four quadrants text
  • animated symbols text
  • pixelated text symbols

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  • heart
  • starburst
  • circular

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • symbols

Visible Text

  • colin
  • austin
  • ruby

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • colin austin ruby
  • black background
  • heart symbol
  • starburst symbol
  • circular symbol
  • animated symbols
  • four quadrants
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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
200812031500281968037265
Archive entry
200812031500281968037265.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 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#200812031500281968037265.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812031500281968037265.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016