Permanent icon record
Pixelated buddy icon with two distinct background colors, displaying text and symbols that change between frames.
Pixelated buddy icon with two distinct background colors, displaying text and symbols that change between frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…
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Source & archive date
- Added to archive
- July 12, 2026
Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
- Source title
- 20090717191209595481105
- Era
- Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
- Observed
- July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Technical archive details
- Format
- GIF
- Dimensions
- 48×48 pixels
- File size
- 775 bytes
- Motion
- Animated (4 frames)
- Added to archive
- July 12, 2026
- Relative path
- icons/37/377bda9df607a6927bda61456dd1237ba61d9b666f6f2aabcd0680e660ab271c.gif
- Media type
- image/gif
- Scanner metadata
- v1
- Animation inspected
- July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
- Archive ID
- 377bda9df607a692
- SHA-256
- 377bda9df607a6927bda61456dd1237ba61d9b666f6f2aabcd0680e660ab271c
Content-safety assessments (1)
- 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
- 0.082800
OpenAI category scores
Enrichment records (1)
Pixelated buddy icon with two distinct background colors, displaying text and symbols that change between frames.
- Reviewed
- August 19, 2026 at 14:47 UTC
- Run
- 61
- Version
- v5
- Elapsed
- 6,997 ms
- Tokens
- prompt 2,108, response 716
Review tags
- black (color, 0.80)
- light blue (color, 0.80)
- nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
- playful (mood, 0.80)
- black star (object, 0.80)
- cyan star (object, 0.80)
- blocky font (style, 0.80)
- low resolution digital (style, 0.80)
- pixel art (style, 0.80)
- star shapes (subject, 0.80)
- symbols (subject, 0.80)
- text (subject, 0.80)
Actions
- star color changes from cyan to black between frames
Animation
- star symbol changes color from cyan to black between frames
Animation Summary
The icon has two distinct states: one with cyan star symbol on black and light blue backgrounds, another without stars on teal background. The only visible change is the star color shifting from cyan to black between frames.
Colors
- black
- light blue
- teal
- white
- cyan
Composition
- four-quadrant
- text stacked vertically
- symbols aligned horizontally below text
Dense Caption
The image shows a pixelated digital artwork divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant has black background with white text 'Mercedeze', 'Caitlyn', '<3 :)', '!!' followed by cyan star symbol; bottom-left quadrant has light blue background with same text and symbols but black star instead of cyan. Top-right and bottom-right quadrants have teal background with identical text layout as top-left/bottom-left but no star symbols in either frame. All text uses blocky pixel font, all symbols are simple pixel art.
Description
- Pixelated buddy icon with two distinct background colors, displaying text and symbols that change between frames.
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
Mood
- playful
- nostalgic
Named Entities
- Mercedeze
- Caitlyn
Non Redundant Search Phrases
- Mercedeze Caitlyn <3 :)
- Caitlyn Mercedeze star
- cyan star black star
Objects
- <3 :)
- !!
- cyan star
- black star
Preprocessing Notes
- quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid
Style
- pixel art
- blocky font
- low-resolution digital
Subjects
- text
- symbols
- star shapes
Visible Text
- Mercedeze
- Caitlyn
- <3 :)
- !!
Visually Supported Entities
- Mercedeze
- Caitlyn
Wordwall
- black background
- light blue background
- teal background
- Mercedeze text
- Caitlyn text
- <3 :> symbol
- !! symbol
- cyan star
- black star
- pixelated font
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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
- 20090717191209595481105
- Archive entry
- 20090717191209595481105.gif
- Observed
- July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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
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