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Blue background with four white light beams forming a square frame, each beam labeled 'JAY' in black pixelated text.

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Blue background with four white light beams forming a square frame, each beam labeled 'JAY' in black pixelated text.

Blue background with four white light beams forming a square frame, each beam labeled 'JAY' in black pixelated text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • square frame
  • four beams
  • text at corners

Dense Caption

Blue background with four white light beams forming a square frame; each beam labeled 'JAY' in black pixelated text; beams have gradient shading from white to light blue; text is positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right of the frame; beams extend from the corners of the frame to the edges of the image; the image has a pixelated, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Blue background with four white light beams forming a square frame, each beam labeled 'JAY' in black pixelated text.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white light beams
  • JAY text square frame
  • pixelated digital graphics
  • four beams blue background
  • white light beams JAY text
  • low-resolution digital graphics
  • blue background JAY text
  • square frame white beams

Visible Text

  • JAY

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white light beams
  • square frame
  • JAY text
  • pixelated text
  • gradient shading
  • four beams
  • low-resolution
  • digital graphics

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200903312227091872552406
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4d/4da1f854e219f4c5cc7f40fbaef438b5fe0c543576a2f990fa6c4a3a64b2a434.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC
Archive ID
4da1f854e219f4c5
SHA-256
4da1f854e219f4c5cc7f40fbaef438b5fe0c543576a2f990fa6c4a3a64b2a434
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:18 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097065

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with four white light beams forming a square frame, each beam labeled 'JAY' in black pixelated text.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 05:00 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,210 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 682

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • light beams (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • square frame
  • four beams
  • text at corners

Dense Caption

Blue background with four white light beams forming a square frame; each beam labeled 'JAY' in black pixelated text; beams have gradient shading from white to light blue; text is positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right of the frame; beams extend from the corners of the frame to the edges of the image; the image has a pixelated, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Blue background with four white light beams forming a square frame, each beam labeled 'JAY' in black pixelated text.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white light beams
  • JAY text square frame
  • pixelated digital graphics
  • four beams blue background
  • white light beams JAY text
  • low-resolution digital graphics
  • blue background JAY text
  • square frame white beams

Objects

  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital graphics

Subjects

  • light beams

Visible Text

  • JAY

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white light beams
  • square frame
  • JAY text
  • pixelated text
  • gradient shading
  • four beams
  • low-resolution
  • digital graphics
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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
200903312227091872552406
Archive entry
200903312227091872552406.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 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#200903312227091872552406.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200903312227091872552406.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016