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Blue pixelated text on black background with animated white sparkles near 'A-V-A' in top-left and middle sections.

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Blue pixelated text on black background with animated white sparkles near 'A-V-A' in top-left and middle sections.

Blue pixelated text on black background with animated white sparkles near 'A-V-A' in top-left and middle sections. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Animation

white sparkles appear sequentially in three locations: top-right of first 'A-V-A', center-right of second 'A-V-A', bottom-left of third 'A-V-A'

Animation Summary

White sparkles animate sequentially at three positions: top-right of first 'A-V-A', center-right of second 'A-V-A', and bottom-left of third 'A-V-A'.

Composition

  • four of text
  • two per

Dense Caption

Black background displays blue pixelated text: 'A-V-A', 'angels', '&', 'airwaves', '<3333'. White sparkles animate at three positions: top-right of first 'A-V-A', center-right of second 'A-V-A', and bottom-left of third 'A-V-A'. Text remains static except for sparkle animation. Sparkles are small white dots that appear in sequence across observations.

Description

  • Blue pixelated text on black background with animated white sparkles near 'A-V-A' in top-left and middle sections.

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
  • 200807181208371580547351

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pixelated text black background white sparkles
  • A-V-A angels airwaves 3333
  • white sparkles animation blue text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two columns per row
  • quarantined composition: four rows of text

Visible Text

  • A-V-A
  • angels
  • &
  • airwaves
  • <3333

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • black background
  • white sparkles
  • pixelated font
  • 'A-V-A'
  • 'angels'
  • 'airwaves'
  • '<3333'
  • ampersand symbol

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807181208371580547351
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/45/4551afc9f22e68f3890dd1b8d041ac288b2942c2633bf97ed76a53b1790638d9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
4551afc9f22e68f3
SHA-256
4551afc9f22e68f3890dd1b8d041ac288b2942c2633bf97ed76a53b1790638d9
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 03:25 UTC
Run
1295
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001160

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:56 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Blue pixelated text on black background with animated white sparkles near 'A-V-A' in top-left and middle sections.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 13:01 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,716 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 673

Review tags

  • white sparkles animate at three positions (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • small white dots (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • white sparkles animate at three positions

Animation

white sparkles appear sequentially in three locations: top-right of first 'A-V-A', center-right of second 'A-V-A', bottom-left of third 'A-V-A'

Animation Summary

White sparkles animate sequentially at three positions: top-right of first 'A-V-A', center-right of second 'A-V-A', and bottom-left of third 'A-V-A'.

Colors

  • black
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • four of text
  • two per

Dense Caption

Black background displays blue pixelated text: 'A-V-A', 'angels', '&', 'airwaves', '<3333'. White sparkles animate at three positions: top-right of first 'A-V-A', center-right of second 'A-V-A', and bottom-left of third 'A-V-A'. Text remains static except for sparkle animation. Sparkles are small white dots that appear in sequence across observations.

Description

  • Blue pixelated text on black background with animated white sparkles near 'A-V-A' in top-left and middle sections.

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
  • 200807181208371580547351

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pixelated text black background white sparkles
  • A-V-A angels airwaves 3333
  • white sparkles animation blue text

Objects

  • small white dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two columns per row
  • quarantined composition: four rows of text

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • A-V-A
  • angels
  • &
  • airwaves
  • <3333

Wordwall

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  • black background
  • white sparkles
  • pixelated font
  • 'A-V-A'
  • 'angels'
  • 'airwaves'
  • '<3333'
  • ampersand symbol
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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
200807181208371580547351
Archive entry
200807181208371580547351.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#200807181208371580547351.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807181208371580547351.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016