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Blue background with white pixelated text 'GILLY HICKS' repeated across three , animated white symbols changing in sequence

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Blue background with white pixelated text 'GILLY HICKS' repeated across three , animated white symbols changing in sequence

Blue background with white pixelated text 'GILLY HICKS' repeated across three , animated white symbols changing in sequence. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • symbols change sequentially
  • top symbols: plus, star, X
  • middle symbols: plus, dot, ellipsis
  • bottom symbols: plus, dot, ellipsis

Animation Summary

  • Animated symbols change sequentially across three : top shows plus, star, X; middle and bottom show plus, dot, ellipsis

Composition

  • three
  • text above symbols
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Blue background with white pixelated text 'GILLY HICKS' in three rows of three. Top row symbols: plus sign, star, X. Middle row symbols: plus sign, dot, ellipsis. Bottom row symbols: plus sign, dot, ellipsis. Symbols animate sequentially from top to bottom rows. Text remains static. All elements are pixelated with no anti-aliasing.

Description

  • Blue background with white pixelated text 'GILLY HICKS' repeated across three , animated white symbols changing in sequence

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • GILLY HICKS blue background white text
  • GILLY HICKS animated symbols
  • blue background pixelated text
  • plus star X dot ellipsis symbols

Objects

  • plus sign
  • star
  • X
  • dot

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with white pixelated text 'GILLY HICKS' repeated across three rows, animated white symbols changing in sequence.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Animated symbols change sequentially across three rows: top row shows plus, star, X; middle and bottom rows show plus, dot, ellipsis.
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined composition: three rows
  • quarantined animation: bottom row symbols: plus, dot, ellipsis
  • quarantined animation: middle row symbols: plus, dot, ellipsis
  • quarantined animation: top row symbols: plus, star, X

Visible Text

  • GILLY HICKS

Wordwall

  • GILLY HICKS
  • blue background
  • white text
  • pixelated
  • plus sign
  • star
  • X
  • dot
  • ellipsis
  • animated symbols
  • three
  • static text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803031359351629733787
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
976 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/36/36b7f8101aa24289c9e35ae371b3e12d2f48e096a5c5d92c071b38ae9939381d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Archive ID
36b7f8101aa24289
SHA-256
36b7f8101aa24289c9e35ae371b3e12d2f48e096a5c5d92c071b38ae9939381d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:40 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078404

OpenAI category scores

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

Blue background with white pixelated text 'GILLY HICKS' repeated across three , animated white symbols changing in sequence

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 15:23 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,937 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,116, response 683

Review tags

  • symbols animate (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • dot (object, 0.80)
  • ellipsis (object, 0.80)
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  • star (object, 0.80)
  • symbols change sequentially (other, 0.80)
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  • text based (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • symbols animate

Animation

  • symbols change sequentially
  • top symbols: plus, star, X
  • middle symbols: plus, dot, ellipsis
  • bottom symbols: plus, dot, ellipsis

Animation Summary

  • Animated symbols change sequentially across three : top shows plus, star, X; middle and bottom show plus, dot, ellipsis

Colors

  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • three
  • text above symbols
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Blue background with white pixelated text 'GILLY HICKS' in three rows of three. Top row symbols: plus sign, star, X. Middle row symbols: plus sign, dot, ellipsis. Bottom row symbols: plus sign, dot, ellipsis. Symbols animate sequentially from top to bottom rows. Text remains static. All elements are pixelated with no anti-aliasing.

Description

  • Blue background with white pixelated text 'GILLY HICKS' repeated across three , animated white symbols changing in sequence

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Mood

  • neutral

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  • GILLY HICKS animated symbols
  • blue background pixelated text
  • plus star X dot ellipsis symbols

Objects

  • plus sign
  • star
  • X
  • dot
  • ellipsis

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined animation: bottom row symbols: plus, dot, ellipsis
  • quarantined animation: middle row symbols: plus, dot, ellipsis
  • quarantined animation: top row symbols: plus, star, X

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • GILLY HICKS

Wordwall

  • GILLY HICKS
  • blue background
  • white text
  • pixelated
  • plus sign
  • star
  • X
  • dot
  • ellipsis
  • animated symbols
  • three
  • static text
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:42 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
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Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200803031359351629733787
Archive entry
200803031359351629733787.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#200803031359351629733787.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803031359351629733787.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016