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Green text repeats 'gel && vickgel' and 'bf4e' on black background with pink stars, gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

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Green text repeats 'gel && vickgel' and 'bf4e' on black background with pink stars, gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

Green text repeats 'gel && vickgel' and 'bf4e' on black background with pink stars, gray rectangle in bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeated text
  • scattered stars
  • corner rectangle

Dense Caption

Black background contains repeated green pixelated text: 'gel && vickgel bf4e' across three horizontal rows. Pink star shapes (some solid, some outlined) are scattered above each row of text. A solid light gray rectangular shape occupies the bottom-right corner. Text and stars remain static; no visible animation changes occur between observations.

Description

  • Green text repeats 'gel && vickgel' and 'bf4e' on black background with pink stars, gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200805061530571328728717

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gel vickgel bf4e
  • green text pink stars black background
  • repeated text buddy icon
  • pixelated star rectangle

Objects

  • rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: repeated text rows

Visible Text

  • gel && vickgel bf4e

Wordwall

  • green pixelated text
  • black background
  • pink stars
  • gray rectangle
  • repeated 'gel && vickgel bf4e'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805061530571328728717
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
859 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC
Archive ID
4b5f4c2d6b1c84be
SHA-256
4b5f4c2d6b1c84bea0d78b1a89e9f4b20a497c7fe69c93f73f8c3fbb726f0e02
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:15 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.200687

OpenAI category scores

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Green text repeats 'gel && vickgel' and 'bf4e' on black background with pink stars, gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 12:37 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,796 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,128, response 616

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • green
  • pink
  • gray

Composition

  • repeated text
  • scattered stars
  • corner rectangle

Dense Caption

Black background contains repeated green pixelated text: 'gel && vickgel bf4e' across three horizontal rows. Pink star shapes (some solid, some outlined) are scattered above each row of text. A solid light gray rectangular shape occupies the bottom-right corner. Text and stars remain static; no visible animation changes occur between observations.

Description

  • Green text repeats 'gel && vickgel' and 'bf4e' on black background with pink stars, gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200805061530571328728717

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gel vickgel bf4e
  • green text pink stars black background
  • repeated text buddy icon
  • pixelated star rectangle

Objects

  • stars
  • rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: repeated text rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static

Visible Text

  • gel && vickgel bf4e

Wordwall

  • green pixelated text
  • black background
  • pink stars
  • gray rectangle
  • repeated 'gel && vickgel bf4e'
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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
200805061530571328728717
Archive entry
200805061530571328728717.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 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#200805061530571328728717.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805061530571328728717.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016