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Animated icon with four distinct visual states showing text and symbols over varied backgrounds.

Animated icon with four distinct visual states showing text and symbols over varied backgrounds. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy I…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • transitions between four distinct visual states

Animation Summary

The icon cycles through four distinct visual states: cyan "m4reen" text over a blurred background with a purple shape; a purple heart-shaped object over a grayscale water-like background with white "15 Th C" text; purple "BC5t" text over a black circular background with a colorful flower-like design

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text overlay
  • varied backgrounds

Dense Caption

The icon displays four sequential visual states: top-left shows cyan "m4reen" text over a blurred background with a purple shape; top-right shows a purple heart-shaped object over a grayscale water-like background with white "15 Th C" text; bottom-left shows purple "BC5t" text over a black circular background with a colorful flower-like pattern; bottom-right is a solid gray background. All states use pixelated text with black outlines. The icon transitions between these four states without additional motion.

Description

  • Animated icon with four distinct visual states showing text and symbols over varied backgrounds.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 201005270009241140327951

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • m4reen 15 Th C BC5t
  • cyan text purple heart
  • grayscale water background white text
  • black circular background colorful flower
  • pixelated text black outlines
  • four visual states
  • heart flower text
  • gray background

Objects

  • heart
  • flower

Preprocessing Notes

  • No upscaling or cropping detected; original pixel dimensions preserved.

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Subjects

  • heart
  • flower

Visible Text

  • m4reen
  • 15 Th C
  • BC5t

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • purple heart
  • grayscale water background
  • white text
  • black circular background
  • colorful flower pattern
  • solid gray background
  • pixelated text
  • black outlines
  • four visual states

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201005270009241140327951
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4a/4a863aa48f504209d20a820e093e7a8fb65a50ecdbac5db089668b3d44d09065.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC
Archive ID
4a863aa48f504209
SHA-256
4a863aa48f504209d20a820e093e7a8fb65a50ecdbac5db089668b3d44d09065
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 19:19 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000481

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 24, 2026 at 12:58 UTC
Run
1179
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.016033

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.016033falsesexual0.010495falseself-harm0.004853falseviolence/graphic0.001563falseself-harm/intent0.000256falseself-harm/instructions0.000225falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:14 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
nsfw
Overall score
0.800019

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/unsafe0.800019onnx/nsfw0.751125onnx/sfw0.716312onnx/nsfl0.048894
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Animated icon with four distinct visual states showing text and symbols over varied backgrounds.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 19:17 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,068 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 945

Review tags

  • transitions between states (action, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • multistate (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • flower (subject, 0.80)
  • heart (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • transitions between states

Animation

  • transitions between four distinct visual states

Animation Summary

The icon cycles through four distinct visual states: cyan "m4reen" text over a blurred background with a purple shape; a purple heart-shaped object over a grayscale water-like background with white "15 Th C" text; purple "BC5t" text over a black circular background with a colorful flower-like design

Colors

  • cyan
  • purple
  • gray
  • white
  • black
  • pink
  • blue
  • green
  • yellow
  • orange

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text overlay
  • varied backgrounds

Dense Caption

The icon displays four sequential visual states: top-left shows cyan "m4reen" text over a blurred background with a purple shape; top-right shows a purple heart-shaped object over a grayscale water-like background with white "15 Th C" text; bottom-left shows purple "BC5t" text over a black circular background with a colorful flower-like pattern; bottom-right is a solid gray background. All states use pixelated text with black outlines. The icon transitions between these four states without additional motion.

Description

  • Animated icon with four distinct visual states showing text and symbols over varied backgrounds.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 201005270009241140327951

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • m4reen 15 Th C BC5t
  • cyan text purple heart
  • grayscale water background white text
  • black circular background colorful flower
  • pixelated text black outlines
  • four visual states
  • heart flower text
  • gray background

Objects

  • heart
  • flower
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • No upscaling or cropping detected; original pixel dimensions preserved.

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • multistate

Subjects

  • text
  • heart
  • flower

Visible Text

  • m4reen
  • 15 Th C
  • BC5t

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • purple heart
  • grayscale water background
  • white text
  • black circular background
  • colorful flower pattern
  • solid gray background
  • pixelated text
  • black outlines
  • four visual states
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:45 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
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
201005270009241140327951
Archive entry
201005270009241140327951.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 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#201005270009241140327951.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201005270009241140327951.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016