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A blue gradient background with white pixelated text reading 'a little bit longer *8/12*' in four identical arranged in a

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A blue gradient background with white pixelated text reading 'a little bit longer *8/12*' in four identical arranged in a

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Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

Four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid on a blue gradient background. Each panel contains white pixelated text: 'a' (small, centered), 'little' (larger, below 'a'), 'bit' (below 'little', same size as 'little'), 'longer' (below 'bit', larger than 'little' and 'bit'), '*8/12*' (below 'longer', smaller than all preceding text). The background transitions from dark blue at the edges to light blue in the center. All panels are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • A blue gradient background with white pixelated text reading 'a little bit longer *8/12*' in four identical arranged in a

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200808011449041231949081

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue gradient text icon
  • a little bit longer 8/12
  • pixelated blue background
  • buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A blue gradient background with white pixelated text reading 'a little bit longer *8/12*' in four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid.
  • quarantined wordwall: four identical panels
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid buddy icon

Visible Text

  • a
  • little
  • bit
  • longer
  • *8/12*

Wordwall

  • blue gradient background
  • white pixelated text
  • a little bit longer *8/12*
  • four identical

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808011449041231949081
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/42/4243ac78cb16840077d3e508fdb4727f100f66286eac5327ad09ce998d95da0e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC
Archive ID
4243ac78cb168400
SHA-256
4243ac78cb16840077d3e508fdb4727f100f66286eac5327ad09ce998d95da0e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:52 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083339

OpenAI category scores

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A blue gradient background with white pixelated text reading 'a little bit longer *8/12*' in four identical arranged in a

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 15:30 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,234 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 678

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • gradient background (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

Four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid on a blue gradient background. Each panel contains white pixelated text: 'a' (small, centered), 'little' (larger, below 'a'), 'bit' (below 'little', same size as 'little'), 'longer' (below 'bit', larger than 'little' and 'bit'), '*8/12*' (below 'longer', smaller than all preceding text). The background transitions from dark blue at the edges to light blue in the center. All panels are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • A blue gradient background with white pixelated text reading 'a little bit longer *8/12*' in four identical arranged in a

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200808011449041231949081

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue gradient text icon
  • a little bit longer 8/12
  • pixelated blue background
  • buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: four identical panels
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid buddy icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • gradient background

Visible Text

  • a
  • little
  • bit
  • longer
  • *8/12*

Wordwall

  • blue gradient background
  • white pixelated text
  • a little bit longer *8/12*
  • four identical
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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
200808011449041231949081
Archive entry
200808011449041231949081.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 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#200808011449041231949081.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808011449041231949081.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016