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Blue background with white dots and repeated 'TARDIS' text in dark blue, with a gray rectangle in the bottom right corner.

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Blue background with white dots and repeated 'TARDIS' text in dark blue, with a gray rectangle in the bottom right corner.

Blue background with white dots and repeated 'TARDIS' text in dark blue, with a gray rectangle in the bottom right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four
  • text centered
  • dots scattered
  • rectangle bottom right

Dense Caption

Blue background with scattered white dots. Four rows of 'TARDIS' text in dark blue: first row four instances, second row four instances with white dots between them, third row three instances. Gray rectangle in bottom right corner. Text is uppercase, sans-serif. White dots vary in size and spacing. No visible animation changes. All text is legible.

Description

  • Blue background with white dots and repeated 'TARDIS' text in dark blue, with a gray rectangle in the bottom right corner.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • TARDIS blue background
  • TARDIS white dots
  • TARDIS gray rectangle
  • TARDIS text repeated
  • blue background TARDIS
  • TARDIS dots rectangle
  • TARDIS sans-serif text
  • TARDIS white dots gray rectangle

Objects

  • rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four rows

Visible Text

  • TARDIS

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white dots
  • TARDIS text
  • dark blue text
  • gray rectangle
  • scattered dots
  • repeated text
  • sans-serif font
  • bottom right rectangle

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20101026153628402827613
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/37/3771e1a266e4e8ee363e6862e6b326ba4d62ceeef2c3464ad4124dd76e4ed262.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC
Archive ID
3771e1a266e4e8ee
SHA-256
3771e1a266e4e8ee363e6862e6b326ba4d62ceeef2c3464ad4124dd76e4ed262
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081002

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue background with white dots and repeated 'TARDIS' text in dark blue, with a gray rectangle in the bottom right corner.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 21:02 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,388 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,121, response 675

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • tardis (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • dark blue
  • gray

Composition

  • four
  • text centered
  • dots scattered
  • rectangle bottom right

Dense Caption

Blue background with scattered white dots. Four rows of 'TARDIS' text in dark blue: first row four instances, second row four instances with white dots between them, third row three instances. Gray rectangle in bottom right corner. Text is uppercase, sans-serif. White dots vary in size and spacing. No visible animation changes. All text is legible.

Description

  • Blue background with white dots and repeated 'TARDIS' text in dark blue, with a gray rectangle in the bottom right corner.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • TARDIS blue background
  • TARDIS white dots
  • TARDIS gray rectangle
  • TARDIS text repeated
  • blue background TARDIS
  • TARDIS dots rectangle
  • TARDIS sans-serif text
  • TARDIS white dots gray rectangle

Objects

  • dots
  • rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • repetitive

Subjects

  • TARDIS

Visible Text

  • TARDIS

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white dots
  • TARDIS text
  • dark blue text
  • gray rectangle
  • scattered dots
  • repeated text
  • sans-serif font
  • bottom right rectangle
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 23:13 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
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
20101026153628402827613
Archive entry
20101026153628402827613.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 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#20101026153628402827613.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20101026153628402827613.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016