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Pixelated image with blue text on purple speech bubbles over a dark background featuring abstract colorful patterns.

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Pixelated image with blue text on purple speech bubbles over a dark background featuring abstract colorful patterns.

Pixelated image with blue text on purple speech bubbles over a dark background featuring abstract colorful patterns. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • overlapping speech bubbles
  • central dark background
  • colorful pixel clusters on left and bottom

Dense Caption

The icon displays three overlapping light purple rectangular speech bubbles containing pixelated blue text: 'Take' in the top bubble, 'a' in the middle bubble, and 'Bow' in the bottom bubble. The background consists of a black field with dense, multicolored pixel clusters forming abstract patterns—teal, green, red, orange, and brown hues dominate the lower-left and central areas. Text is rendered in blocky 8-bit style; no additional objects or figures are visible.

Description

  • Pixelated image with blue text on purple speech bubbles over a dark background featuring abstract colorful patterns.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080628210500194700296
  • 200806282105011835598660

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue text purple speech bubbles
  • pixelated 'Take a Bow'
  • teal green red orange brown background

Visible Text

  • Take
  • a
  • Bow

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • purple speech bubbles
  • pixelated 'Take'
  • pixelated 'a'
  • pixelated 'Bow'
  • black background
  • teal pixel clusters
  • green pixel clusters
  • red pixel clusters
  • orange pixel clusters
  • brown pixel clusters

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080628210500194700296
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806282105011835598660
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/50/5051bbbc94449b9ac4fc2b77810ff7d32ab06ba786fb564a501a511e6587d07c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
5051bbbc94449b9a
SHA-256
5051bbbc94449b9ac4fc2b77810ff7d32ab06ba786fb564a501a511e6587d07c
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 31, 2026 at 09:29 UTC
Run
15969
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000058

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 9, 2026 at 07:40 UTC
Run
1278
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.047100

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:20 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
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four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.205016

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image with blue text on purple speech bubbles over a dark background featuring abstract colorful patterns.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 09:22 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,010 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,135, response 681

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • purple
  • black
  • teal
  • green
  • red
  • orange
  • brown

Composition

  • overlapping speech bubbles
  • central dark background
  • colorful pixel clusters on left and bottom

Dense Caption

The icon displays three overlapping light purple rectangular speech bubbles containing pixelated blue text: 'Take' in the top bubble, 'a' in the middle bubble, and 'Bow' in the bottom bubble. The background consists of a black field with dense, multicolored pixel clusters forming abstract patterns—teal, green, red, orange, and brown hues dominate the lower-left and central areas. Text is rendered in blocky 8-bit style; no additional objects or figures are visible.

Description

  • Pixelated image with blue text on purple speech bubbles over a dark background featuring abstract colorful patterns.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080628210500194700296
  • 200806282105011835598660

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue text purple speech bubbles
  • pixelated 'Take a Bow'
  • teal green red orange brown background

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • blocky text

Visible Text

  • Take
  • a
  • Bow

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • purple speech bubbles
  • pixelated 'Take'
  • pixelated 'a'
  • pixelated 'Bow'
  • black background
  • teal pixel clusters
  • green pixel clusters
  • red pixel clusters
  • orange pixel clusters
  • brown pixel clusters
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Full source records (2)

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
20080628210500194700296
Archive entry
20080628210500194700296.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#20080628210500194700296.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080628210500194700296.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200806282105011835598660
Archive entry
200806282105011835598660.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#200806282105011835598660.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806282105011835598660.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016