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Red background with repeating text patterns and animated symbols changing across frames.

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Red background with repeating text patterns and animated symbols changing across frames.

Red background with repeating text patterns and animated symbols changing across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, L…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • symbol change: + → . → .. on rightmost BFFLADS

Animation Summary

  • BFFLADS symbol changes from + to . to .. ; all other text and layout remain static

Composition

  • three vertical
  • repeating text

Dense Caption

Red background displays three columns of black pixelated text: top rows read DD, JD, DG; middle rows repeat K.F. nd m.r. and BFFLADS+ (first frame), BFFLADS. (second frame), BFFLADS.. (third frame); bottom rows mirror top rows. Animated symbols change from + to . to .. on the rightmost column's BFFLADS text across frames; all other elements remain static.

Description

  • Red background with repeating text patterns and animated symbols changing across frames.

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
  • 200811021430352115940214

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background pixelated text
  • DD JD DG K.F. nd m.r. BFFLADS animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: BFFLADS symbol changes from + to . to .. across three frames; all other text and layout remain static.
  • quarantined wordwall: three columns of black pixelated text
  • quarantined composition: repeating text rows
  • quarantined composition: three vertical columns

Visible Text

  • DD
  • JD
  • DG
  • K.F. nd m.r.
  • BFFLADS+

Wordwall

  • red background
  • three of black pixelated text
  • DD JD DG repeated vertically
  • K.F. nd m.r. repeated horizontally
  • BFFLADS+ BFFLADS. BFFLADS.. animated symbols

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811021430352115940214
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
511 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4e/4ea9fcbf5786632bae7a7b563a3dbcbef1099863d9759933f224bb5fab0e745d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
4ea9fcbf5786632b
SHA-256
4ea9fcbf5786632bae7a7b563a3dbcbef1099863d9759933f224bb5fab0e745d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:19 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.109667

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with repeating text patterns and animated symbols changing across frames.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 06:41 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,555 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 613

Review tags

  • bfflads symbol changes from to to (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • symbol change on rightmost bfflads (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • BFFLADS symbol changes from + to . to ..

Animation

  • symbol change: + → . → .. on rightmost BFFLADS

Animation Summary

  • BFFLADS symbol changes from + to . to .. ; all other text and layout remain static

Colors

  • red
  • black

Composition

  • three vertical
  • repeating text

Dense Caption

Red background displays three columns of black pixelated text: top rows read DD, JD, DG; middle rows repeat K.F. nd m.r. and BFFLADS+ (first frame), BFFLADS. (second frame), BFFLADS.. (third frame); bottom rows mirror top rows. Animated symbols change from + to . to .. on the rightmost column's BFFLADS text across frames; all other elements remain static.

Description

  • Red background with repeating text patterns and animated symbols changing across frames.

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
  • 200811021430352115940214

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background pixelated text
  • DD JD DG K.F. nd m.r. BFFLADS animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: BFFLADS symbol changes from + to . to .. across three frames; all other text and layout remain static.
  • quarantined wordwall: three columns of black pixelated text
  • quarantined composition: repeating text rows
  • quarantined composition: three vertical columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • DD
  • JD
  • DG
  • K.F. nd m.r.
  • BFFLADS+

Wordwall

  • red background
  • three of black pixelated text
  • DD JD DG repeated vertically
  • K.F. nd m.r. repeated horizontally
  • BFFLADS+ BFFLADS. BFFLADS.. animated symbols
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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
200811021430352115940214
Archive entry
200811021430352115940214.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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#200811021430352115940214.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811021430352115940214.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016