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Red background with four blue 'TAKEN' texts and three white pixelated symbols: heart, starburst, and circular pattern.

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Red background with four blue 'TAKEN' texts and three white pixelated symbols: heart, starburst, and circular pattern.

Red background with four blue 'TAKEN' texts and three white pixelated symbols: heart, starburst, and circular pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; all elements remain static across frames.

Composition

  • centered

Dense Caption

Red background. Four instances of blue pixelated text 'TAKEN' arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top center: white pixelated heart. Top right: white pixelated starburst. Center: white pixelated circular pattern. All text and symbols are static. No animation observed. Pixel count: 100x100. Color palette: red, blue, white. Style: 8-bit pixel art. Composition: centered grid layout. Text is uppercase sans-serif. Symbols are simple geometric shapes. No visible motion or change across frames. No additional subjects or objects present.

Description

  • Red background with four blue 'TAKEN' texts and three white pixelated symbols: heart, starburst, and circular pattern.

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 blue text white symbols
  • four TAKEN texts 8-bit pixel art
  • TAKEN heart starburst circular pattern
  • centered red blue white

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: centered grid layout
  • quarantined composition: centered grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: centered grid layout red blue white

Visible Text

  • TAKEN

Wordwall

  • red background
  • four 'TAKEN' texts
  • blue text
  • white pixelated heart
  • white pixelated starburst
  • white pixelated circular pattern
  • 8-bit pixel art
  • centered
  • uppercase sans-serif text
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090102151827371622500
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
288 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/34/34db14f662d092cfecaf8d3419813abcaf42a10b391bb99498f493e97bf31a28.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
Archive ID
34db14f662d092cf
SHA-256
34db14f662d092cfecaf8d3419813abcaf42a10b391bb99498f493e97bf31a28
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 11, 2026 at 07:53 UTC
Run
1281
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010308

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.010308falseself-harm0.000485falseself-harm/intent0.000215falsesexual0.000057falseviolence/graphic0.000027falseself-harm/instructions0.000004falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 13:51 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.177726

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.850753onnx/unsafe0.177726onnx/nsfw0.117790onnx/nsfl0.059936
Enrichment records (1)
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Red background with four blue 'TAKEN' texts and three white pixelated symbols: heart, starburst, and circular pattern.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 16:27 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,624 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 592

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; all elements remain static across frames.

Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • centered

Dense Caption

Red background. Four instances of blue pixelated text 'TAKEN' arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top center: white pixelated heart. Top right: white pixelated starburst. Center: white pixelated circular pattern. All text and symbols are static. No animation observed. Pixel count: 100x100. Color palette: red, blue, white. Style: 8-bit pixel art. Composition: centered grid layout. Text is uppercase sans-serif. Symbols are simple geometric shapes. No visible motion or change across frames. No additional subjects or objects present.

Description

  • Red background with four blue 'TAKEN' texts and three white pixelated symbols: heart, starburst, and circular pattern.

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 blue text white symbols
  • four TAKEN texts 8-bit pixel art
  • TAKEN heart starburst circular pattern
  • centered red blue white

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: centered grid layout
  • quarantined composition: centered grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: centered grid layout red blue white

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art

Visible Text

  • TAKEN

Wordwall

  • red background
  • four 'TAKEN' texts
  • blue text
  • white pixelated heart
  • white pixelated starburst
  • white pixelated circular pattern
  • 8-bit pixel art
  • centered
  • uppercase sans-serif text
  • static image
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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20090102151827371622500
Archive entry
20090102151827371622500.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 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#20090102151827371622500.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090102151827371622500.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016