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Four identical circular icons with red concentric rings on blue background, each displaying white text "eyeliner is spiffy!" in pixelated font.

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Four identical circular icons with red concentric rings on blue background, each displaying white text "eyeliner is spiffy!" in pixelated font.

Four identical circular icons with red concentric rings on blue background, each displaying white text "eyeliner is spiffy!" in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon f…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations; all icons display identical static content.

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered text
  • identical icons

Dense Caption

Four circular icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on solid blue background. Each icon features three red concentric rings with white pixelated text "eyeliner is spiffy!" centered within the innermost ring. The text is arranged in three lines: "eyeliner" at top, "is" in middle, "spiffy!" at bottom. All icons share identical visual elements. The image is static with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

Four identical circular icons with red concentric rings on blue background, each displaying white text "eyeliner is spiffy!" in pixelated font.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • eyeliner is spiffy
  • blue background red rings
  • pixelated text icon
  • four identical icons
  • text
  • spiffy exclamation mark
  • retro pixel font
  • text-based icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid text

Visible Text

  • eyeliner is spiffy!

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • red concentric rings
  • white pixelated text
  • eyeliner is spiffy!
  • four identical icons
  • three text lines
  • exclamation mark
  • solid color background
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070729012313975295768
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/39/390c494484c18dc5787308f51323d08eb2170d0115316e538e3e95d9d5832856.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
390c494484c18dc5
SHA-256
390c494484c18dc5787308f51323d08eb2170d0115316e538e3e95d9d5832856
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:43 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.071243

OpenAI category scores

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

Four identical circular icons with red concentric rings on blue background, each displaying white text "eyeliner is spiffy!" in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 15:50 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,066 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 681

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations; all icons display identical static content.

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered text
  • identical icons

Dense Caption

Four circular icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on solid blue background. Each icon features three red concentric rings with white pixelated text "eyeliner is spiffy!" centered within the innermost ring. The text is arranged in three lines: "eyeliner" at top, "is" in middle, "spiffy!" at bottom. All icons share identical visual elements. The image is static with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

Four identical circular icons with red concentric rings on blue background, each displaying white text "eyeliner is spiffy!" in pixelated font.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • eyeliner is spiffy
  • blue background red rings
  • pixelated text icon
  • four identical icons
  • text
  • spiffy exclamation mark
  • retro pixel font
  • text-based icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid text

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • eyeliner is spiffy!

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • red concentric rings
  • white pixelated text
  • eyeliner is spiffy!
  • four identical icons
  • three text lines
  • exclamation mark
  • solid color background
  • pixelated font
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:38 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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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
20070729012313975295768
Archive entry
20070729012313975295768.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#20070729012313975295768.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070729012313975295768.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016