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Green background with repeated 'fobio' text in black, surrounded by white and light green star-shaped pixel clusters.

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Green background with repeated 'fobio' text in black, surrounded by white and light green star-shaped pixel clusters.

Green background with repeated 'fobio' text in black, surrounded by white and light green star-shaped pixel clusters. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • six by three of 'fobio'
  • star clusters at corners and mid-sides

Dense Caption

Bright green background fills the entire frame. Black blocky text reading 'fobio' repeats 18 times in a six-row-by-three-column grid pattern across the central area. White pixel stars appear at four corners (top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right) and two mid-side positions (left-center, right-center), each connected to its respective corner or side by short white dotted lines. Light green star-shaped pixels cluster near the left-center and top-left positions, partially overlapping with the white star clusters.

Description

  • Green background with repeated 'fobio' text in black, surrounded by white and light green star-shaped pixel clusters.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background fobio text
  • star clusters dotted lines
  • 18 fobio repetitions
  • pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: six rows by three columns of 'fobio'
  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art grid layout

Visible Text

  • fobio

Visually Supported Entities

  • fobio

Wordwall

  • green background
  • black text 'fobio'
  • 18 repetitions of 'fobio'
  • white pixel stars
  • dotted line connections
  • light green star clusters

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810271651241311734230
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1017 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/57/5781830199028cfb82ef3a5a991f3debf01c5bc05f195771b4c7bd0292905ce5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
5781830199028cfb
SHA-256
5781830199028cfb82ef3a5a991f3debf01c5bc05f195771b4c7bd0292905ce5
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:30 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088487

OpenAI category scores

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Green background with repeated 'fobio' text in black, surrounded by white and light green star-shaped pixel clusters.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 05:52 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,063 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,168, response 671

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • dotted lines (object, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • star clusters (subject, 0.80)
  • text fobio (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • black
  • white
  • light green

Composition

  • six by three of 'fobio'
  • star clusters at corners and mid-sides

Dense Caption

Bright green background fills the entire frame. Black blocky text reading 'fobio' repeats 18 times in a six-row-by-three-column grid pattern across the central area. White pixel stars appear at four corners (top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right) and two mid-side positions (left-center, right-center), each connected to its respective corner or side by short white dotted lines. Light green star-shaped pixels cluster near the left-center and top-left positions, partially overlapping with the white star clusters.

Description

  • Green background with repeated 'fobio' text in black, surrounded by white and light green star-shaped pixel clusters.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background fobio text
  • star clusters dotted lines
  • 18 fobio repetitions
  • pixel art

Objects

  • stars
  • dotted lines

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: six rows by three columns of 'fobio'
  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • text 'fobio'
  • star clusters

Visible Text

  • fobio

Visually Supported Entities

  • fobio

Wordwall

  • green background
  • black text 'fobio'
  • 18 repetitions of 'fobio'
  • white pixel stars
  • dotted line connections
  • light green star clusters
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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
200810271651241311734230
Archive entry
200810271651241311734230.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#200810271651241311734230.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810271651241311734230.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016