Pixelated buddy icon with two distinct background colors, displaying text and symbols that change between frames.

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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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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.

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

Named Entities

  • Mercedeze
  • Caitlyn

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Mercedeze Caitlyn <3 :)
  • Caitlyn Mercedeze star
  • cyan star black star

Objects

  • <3 :)
  • !!

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

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

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)
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
0.082800

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.930055onnx/unsafe0.082800onnx/nsfw0.043233onnx/nsfl0.039567
Enrichment records (1)
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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