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Blue text 'i y taylor' appears on a black-and-white checkered background with horizontal lines, transitioning to a solid checkered pattern.

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Blue text 'i y taylor' appears on a black-and-white checkered background with horizontal lines, transitioning to a solid checkered pattern.

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • background transitions between line-patterned checkered and solid checkered

Animation Summary

The background transitions between a line-patterned checkered design and a solid checkered design while the text 'i y taylor' remains static.

Composition

  • text centered
  • background alternates

Dense Caption

The icon displays blue text 'i y taylor' in a pixelated font across multiple frames. The background alternates between a black-and-white checkered pattern with horizontal lines and a solid black-and-white checkered pattern. The text remains consistent across all visible frames, with the background changing from a line-patterned checkered design to a uniform checkered design. The icon uses only blue, black, and white colors.

Description

  • Blue text 'i y taylor' appears on a black-and-white checkered background with horizontal lines, transitioning to a solid checkered 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200708082001151655137959

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i y taylor checkered background
  • blue text taylor
  • pixelated taylor icon
  • checkered background animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no cropping observed

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • i
  • y
  • taylor

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • i y taylor
  • checkered background
  • horizontal lines
  • pixelated font
  • black and white
  • text consistent
  • background change

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708082001151655137959
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (12 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/35/35ee648dfc16275ffaa396762454a29cca12e75322842b872d83c5eeb9744ee4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
35ee648dfc16275f
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:40 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.128515

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue text 'i y taylor' appears on a black-and-white checkered background with horizontal lines, transitioning to a solid checkered pattern.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 21:02 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,110 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,123, response 809

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
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  • horizontal lines (object, 0.80)
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  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • background change

Animation

  • background transitions between line-patterned checkered and solid checkered

Animation Summary

The background transitions between a line-patterned checkered design and a solid checkered design while the text 'i y taylor' remains static.

Colors

  • blue
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • text centered
  • background alternates

Dense Caption

The icon displays blue text 'i y taylor' in a pixelated font across multiple frames. The background alternates between a black-and-white checkered pattern with horizontal lines and a solid black-and-white checkered pattern. The text remains consistent across all visible frames, with the background changing from a line-patterned checkered design to a uniform checkered design. The icon uses only blue, black, and white colors.

Description

  • Blue text 'i y taylor' appears on a black-and-white checkered background with horizontal lines, transitioning to a solid checkered 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200708082001151655137959

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i y taylor checkered background
  • blue text taylor
  • pixelated taylor icon
  • checkered background animation

Objects

  • checkered pattern
  • horizontal lines

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no cropping observed

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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  • pixelated
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text

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  • i
  • y
  • taylor

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • i y taylor
  • checkered background
  • horizontal lines
  • pixelated font
  • black and white
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  • background change
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:56 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200708082001151655137959
Archive entry
200708082001151655137959.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#200708082001151655137959.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708082001151655137959.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016