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four buddy icons with overlapping yellow, green, and cyan circles behind text elements

four buddy icons with overlapping yellow, green, and cyan circles behind text elements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, La…

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Source terms

Composition

  • consistent background pattern
  • text centered on black rectangles

Dense Caption

Four distinct buddy icon designs share a consistent background pattern: two large overlapping circles in yellow (left) and light green (right), with a smaller cyan circle partially visible beneath the leftmost design. Each icon features bold white text on black rectangular backgrounds. Top-left shows "Hell"; top-right shows "its"; middle-left shows "yeah"; middle-right shows "summer"; bottom-left shows "08"; and bottom-left displays "bitch." The right half of the grid contains a solid gray rectangle where additional icons would appear.

Description

  • four buddy icons with overlapping yellow, green, and cyan circles behind text elements

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
  • 20080609150342537346736

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow green cyan circles text icons
  • Hell its yeah summer 08 bitch.
  • pixelated buddy
  • overlapping circle background white text black

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of four buddy icons with overlapping yellow, green, and cyan circles behind text elements.
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated buddy icon grid

Visible Text

  • Hell
  • its
  • yeah
  • summer
  • 08
  • bitch.

Wordwall

  • yellow circle
  • green circle
  • cyan circle
  • white text on black background
  • Hell
  • its
  • yeah
  • summer
  • 08
  • bitch.

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080609150342537346736
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/52/525caad68367b48f320222efea5a829ea10b0851e988319f49ff783e7b62f1f7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC
Archive ID
525caad68367b48f
SHA-256
525caad68367b48f320222efea5a829ea10b0851e988319f49ff783e7b62f1f7
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 20:22 UTC
Run
1303
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.144370

OpenAI category scores

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Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/ocr/profanity1.000000textenrichment/visual/profanity0.500000image
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:24 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072033

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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four buddy icons with overlapping yellow, green, and cyan circles behind text elements

Reviewed
August 16, 2026 at 20:20 UTC
Run
60
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,027 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 674

Review tags

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  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • light green
  • cyan
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • consistent background pattern
  • text centered on black rectangles

Dense Caption

Four distinct buddy icon designs share a consistent background pattern: two large overlapping circles in yellow (left) and light green (right), with a smaller cyan circle partially visible beneath the leftmost design. Each icon features bold white text on black rectangular backgrounds. Top-left shows "Hell"; top-right shows "its"; middle-left shows "yeah"; middle-right shows "summer"; bottom-left shows "08"; and bottom-left displays "bitch." The right half of the grid contains a solid gray rectangle where additional icons would appear.

Description

  • four buddy icons with overlapping yellow, green, and cyan circles behind text elements

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
  • 20080609150342537346736

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow green cyan circles text icons
  • Hell its yeah summer 08 bitch.
  • pixelated buddy
  • overlapping circle background white text black

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of four buddy icons with overlapping yellow, green, and cyan circles behind text elements.
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated buddy icon grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text
  • overlapping circles

Visible Text

  • Hell
  • its
  • yeah
  • summer
  • 08
  • bitch.

Wordwall

  • yellow circle
  • green circle
  • cyan circle
  • white text on black background
  • Hell
  • its
  • yeah
  • summer
  • 08
  • bitch.
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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
20080609150342537346736
Archive entry
20080609150342537346736.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 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#20080609150342537346736.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080609150342537346736.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016