Buddy Icon Archive Preserving the tiny pictures that made the internet personal.
Pixelated text repeats across a dark blue background with animated star and dot symbols changing in sequence.

Permanent icon record

Pixelated text repeats across a dark blue background with animated star and dot symbols changing in sequence.

Pixelated text repeats across a dark blue background with animated star and dot symbols changing in sequence. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

A visual description has not been added yet. The archival record below is still available.

Download original

About this icon

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star symbols change from + to • to × under 'ya'
  • dots appear below right 's 'ya'

Animation Summary

  • Star symbols under 'ya' change from + to • to × across observations; small white dots appear below the rightmost 's 'ya'

Composition

  • three identical horizontal
  • centered text blocks
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Dark blue background displays repeated light green pixelated text: 'starings for free', 'out touchinout is gonna ya'. Three columns of identical text repeat horizontally. Animated elements include white stars (initially +, then •, then ×) under 'ya' and small white dots below the rightmost column's 'ya'. Text remains static while symbols animate across observations.

Description

  • Pixelated text repeats across a dark blue background with animated star and dot symbols changing in sequence.

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
  • 200710041258071726092552

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text buddy icon
  • star icons changing animation
  • repeated dark blue background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Star symbols under 'ya' change from + to • to × across observations; small white dots appear below the rightmost column's 'ya'.
  • quarantined wordwall: dots appear below right column
  • quarantined wordwall: repeated columns
  • quarantined composition: three identical horizontal columns
  • quarantined animation: dots appear below right column's 'ya'
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated columns dark blue background

Visible Text

  • starings for free
  • out touchinout is gonna ya

Wordwall

  • dark blue background
  • light green pixelated text
  • repeated
  • star icons change from + to • to ×
  • dots appear below right

Explore related icons

Browse all categories · How source collections are preserved

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710041258071726092552
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
546 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/52/529a4dfd0f9d7cbbb570fd7e8d063bfcd16786b7992153f273b60b33234b8c6d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC
Archive ID
529a4dfd0f9d7cbb
SHA-256
529a4dfd0f9d7cbbb570fd7e8d063bfcd16786b7992153f273b60b33234b8c6d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.081057

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.921365onnx/unsafe0.081057onnx/nsfw0.043808onnx/nsfl0.037248
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated text repeats across a dark blue background with animated star and dot symbols changing in sequence.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 07:10 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,566 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 669

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dots appear below right s ya (other, 0.80)
  • star symbols change from to to under ya (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive layout (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • star symbols change from + to • to × under 'ya'
  • dots appear below right 's 'ya'

Animation Summary

  • Star symbols under 'ya' change from + to • to × across observations; small white dots appear below the rightmost 's 'ya'

Colors

  • dark blue
  • light green
  • white

Composition

  • three identical horizontal
  • centered text blocks
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Dark blue background displays repeated light green pixelated text: 'starings for free', 'out touchinout is gonna ya'. Three columns of identical text repeat horizontally. Animated elements include white stars (initially +, then •, then ×) under 'ya' and small white dots below the rightmost column's 'ya'. Text remains static while symbols animate across observations.

Description

  • Pixelated text repeats across a dark blue background with animated star and dot symbols changing in sequence.

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
  • 200710041258071726092552

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text buddy icon
  • star icons changing animation
  • repeated dark blue background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Star symbols under 'ya' change from + to • to × across observations; small white dots appear below the rightmost column's 'ya'.
  • quarantined wordwall: dots appear below right column
  • quarantined wordwall: repeated columns
  • quarantined composition: three identical horizontal columns
  • quarantined animation: dots appear below right column's 'ya'
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated columns dark blue background

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • repetitive layout

Visible Text

  • starings for free
  • out touchinout is gonna ya

Wordwall

  • dark blue background
  • light green pixelated text
  • repeated
  • star icons change from + to • to ×
  • dots appear below right
Raw JSON
{
  "inputIndex": 0,
  "sha256": "529a4dfd0f9d7cbbb570fd7e8d063bfcd16786b7992153f273b60b33234b8c6d",
  "description": "Pixelated text repeats across a dark blue background with animated star and dot symbols changing in sequence.",
  "denseCaption": "Dark blue background displays repeated light green pixelated text: \u0027starings for free\u0027, \u0027out touchinout is gonna ya\u0027. Three columns of identical text repeat horizontally. Animated elements include white stars (initially \u002B, then \u2022, then \u00D7) under \u0027ya\u0027 and small white dots below the rightmost column\u0027s \u0027ya\u0027. Text remains static while symbols animate across observations.",
  "wordwall": [
    "dark blue background",
    "light green pixelated text",
    "repeated",
    "star icons change from \u002B to \u2022 to \u00D7",
    "dots appear below right"
  ],
  "visibleText": [
    "starings for free",
    "out touchinout is gonna ya"
  ],
  "uncertainText": [],
  "subjects": [],
  "actions": [],
  "objects": [],
  "colors": [
    "dark blue",
    "light green",
    "white"
  ],
  "style": [
    "pixelated",
    "text-based",
    "repetitive layout"
  ],
  "composition": [
    "three identical horizontal",
    "centered text blocks",
    "symmetrical arrangement"
  ],
  "mood": [
    "playful",
    "nostalgic"
  ],
  "animation": [
    "star symbols change from \u002B to \u2022 to \u00D7 under \u0027ya\u0027",
    "dots appear below right \u0027s \u0027ya\u0027"
  ],
  "preprocessingNotes": [
    "quarantined animationSummary: Star symbols under \u0027ya\u0027 change from \u002B to \u2022 to \u00D7 across observations; small white dots appear below the rightmost column\u0027s \u0027ya\u0027.",
    "quarantined wordwall: dots appear below right column",
    "quarantined wordwall: repeated columns",
    "quarantined composition: three identical horizontal columns",
    "quarantined animation: dots appear below right column\u0027s \u0027ya\u0027",
    "quarantined retrieval: repeated columns dark blue background"
  ],
  "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [],
  "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
  "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
    "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"
  ],
  "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
  "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
  "metadataOnlyEntities": [
    "franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016",
    "2007-2016",
    "franksicons",
    "200710041258071726092552"
  ],
  "identityHypotheses": [],
  "namedEntities": [],
  "fandoms": [],
  "animationSummary": "Star symbols under \u0027ya\u0027 change from \u002B to \u2022 to \u00D7 across observations; small white dots appear below the rightmost \u0027s \u0027ya\u0027",
  "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
    "pixelated text buddy icon",
    "star icons changing animation",
    "repeated dark blue background"
  ],
  "uncertainty": [],
  "aestheticStrengths": [],
  "aestheticWeaknesses": [],
  "tags": [
    {
      "tag": "pixelated",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: pixelated"
    },
    {
      "tag": "text based",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: text-based"
    },
    {
      "tag": "repetitive layout",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: repetitive layout"
    },
    {
      "tag": "playful",
      "category": "mood",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: playful"
    },
    {
      "tag": "nostalgic",
      "category": "mood",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: nostalgic"
    },
    {
      "tag": "dark blue",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: dark blue"
    },
    {
      "tag": "light green",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: light green"
    },
    {
      "tag": "white",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: white"
    },
    {
      "tag": "star symbols change from to to under ya",
      "category": "other",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: star symbols change from \u002B to \u2022 to \u00D7 under \u0027ya\u0027"
    },
    {
      "tag": "dots appear below right s ya",
      "category": "other",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: dots appear below right \u0027s \u0027ya\u0027"
    }
  ],
  "rawModelResponse": {
    "icons": [
      {
        "inputIndex": 0,
        "sha256": "529a4dfd0f9d7cbbb570fd7e8d063bfcd16786b7992153f273b60b33234b8c6d",
        "description": "Pixelated text repeats across a dark blue background with animated star and dot symbols changing in sequence.",
        "denseCaption": "Dark blue background displays repeated light green pixelated text: \u0027starings for free\u0027, \u0027out touchinout is gonna ya\u0027. Three columns of identical text repeat horizontally. Animated elements include white stars (initially \u002B, then \u2022, then \u00D7) under \u0027ya\u0027 and small white dots below the rightmost column\u0027s \u0027ya\u0027. Text remains static while symbols animate across observations.",
        "wordwall": [
          "dark blue background",
          "light green pixelated text",
          "repeated columns",
          "star icons change from \u002B to \u2022 to \u00D7",
          "dots appear below right column"
        ],
        "visibleText": [
          "starings for free",
          "out touchinout is gonna ya"
        ],
        "uncertainText": [],
        "subjects": [],
        "actions": [],
        "objects": [],
        "colors": [
          "dark blue",
          "light green",
          "white"
        ],
        "style": [
          "pixelated",
          "text-based",
          "repetitive layout"
        ],
        "composition": [
          "three identical horizontal columns",
          "centered text blocks",
          "symmetrical arrangement"
        ],
        "mood": [
          "playful",
          "nostalgic"
        ],
        "animation": [
          "star symbols change from \u002B to \u2022 to \u00D7 under \u0027ya\u0027",
          "dots appear below right column\u0027s \u0027ya\u0027"
        ],
        "preprocessingNotes": [],
        "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [],
        "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
        "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
          "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"
        ],
        "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
        "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
        "metadataOnlyEntities": [
          "franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016",
          "2007-2016",
          "franksicons",
          "200710041258071726092552"
        ],
        "identityHypotheses": [],
        "namedEntities": [],
        "fandoms": [],
        "animationSummary": "Star symbols under \u0027ya\u0027 change from \u002B to \u2022 to \u00D7 across observations; small white dots appear below the rightmost column\u0027s \u0027ya\u0027.",
        "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
          "pixelated text buddy icon",
          "star icons changing animation",
          "repeated columns dark blue background"
        ],
        "tags": []
      }
    ]
  }
}
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200710041258071726092552
Archive entry
200710041258071726092552.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 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#200710041258071726092552.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710041258071726092552.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016