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Black background with scattered blue circles of varying sizes, white text reading "mhm..." repeated twice in pixelated font.

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Black background with scattered blue circles of varying sizes, white text reading "mhm..." repeated twice in pixelated font.

Black background with scattered blue circles of varying sizes, white text reading "mhm..." repeated twice in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • no visible animation changes across observations

Composition

  • random circle distribution
  • text positioned top and bottom

Dense Caption

Black background filled with multiple blue circles of various sizes; two instances of the text "mhm..." appear in a pixelated white font, each followed by six dots. The image contains no visible motion or animation changes across observations. Blue circles vary from small to large and are distributed randomly without overlapping. Text is positioned horizontally near the top and bottom edges of the frame.

Description

  • Black background with scattered blue circles of varying sizes, white text reading "mhm..." repeated twice 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 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
  • 200801191605251815279649

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue circles black background mhm text
  • pixelated mhm dots blue circles
  • black background blue circle text
  • mhm repeated six dots pixelated

Visible Text

  • mhm...

Wordwall

  • black background
  • blue circles
  • various sizes
  • pixelated text
  • "mhm..." repeated
  • six dots after text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801191605251815279649
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/46/4699eb47aae4cdac1d39d701e44cde02390b6ff59ccc9dbad7ef0381307ca26f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Archive ID
4699eb47aae4cdac
SHA-256
4699eb47aae4cdac1d39d701e44cde02390b6ff59ccc9dbad7ef0381307ca26f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:57 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.069458

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with scattered blue circles of varying sizes, white text reading "mhm..." repeated twice in pixelated font.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 11:34 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,467 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 621

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blue circles (object, 0.80)
  • no visible animation changes across observations (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • no visible animation changes across observations

Colors

  • black
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • random circle distribution
  • text positioned top and bottom

Dense Caption

Black background filled with multiple blue circles of various sizes; two instances of the text "mhm..." appear in a pixelated white font, each followed by six dots. The image contains no visible motion or animation changes across observations. Blue circles vary from small to large and are distributed randomly without overlapping. Text is positioned horizontally near the top and bottom edges of the frame.

Description

  • Black background with scattered blue circles of varying sizes, white text reading "mhm..." repeated twice 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 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
  • 200801191605251815279649

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue circles black background mhm text
  • pixelated mhm dots blue circles
  • black background blue circle text
  • mhm repeated six dots pixelated

Objects

  • blue circles

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • mhm...

Wordwall

  • black background
  • blue circles
  • various sizes
  • pixelated text
  • "mhm..." repeated
  • six dots after text
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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
200801191605251815279649
Archive entry
200801191605251815279649.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 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#200801191605251815279649.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801191605251815279649.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016