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Red background with four circular ripple patterns and cyan text reading 'hi im cool' in each quadrant.

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Red background with four circular ripple patterns and cyan text reading 'hi im cool' in each quadrant.

Red background with four circular ripple patterns and cyan text reading 'hi im cool' in each quadrant. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no motion

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations; static image with four identical ripple patterns.

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • central text
  • concentric circles

Dense Caption

Four identical circular ripple patterns on a solid red background. Each ripple consists of three concentric circles with a central dot. Cyan text reading 'hi im cool' appears in the upper portion of each ripple pattern. The text is rendered in a pixelated font. The ripples are arranged in a 2x2 grid. The central dot of each ripple is slightly offset from the exact center of the circle. The text is positioned above the central dot of each ripple. The color palette consists of red, cyan, and black. The image has a retro digital aesthetic.

Description

  • Red background with four circular ripple patterns and cyan text reading 'hi im cool' in each quadrant.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 20080622185136878267087

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background cyan text hi im cool
  • four ripples concentric circles
  • pixelated font
  • retro digital text ripple

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no cropping detected
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated font 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • hi im cool

Wordwall

  • red background
  • cyan text
  • four ripples
  • concentric circles
  • pixelated font
  • central dot
  • hi im cool
  • retro digital

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080622185136878267087
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/58/589739c249373b19120d3af76566bc2589c04f0c5ebbfa1032cb2df1d3783f40.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC
Archive ID
589739c249373b19
SHA-256
589739c249373b19120d3af76566bc2589c04f0c5ebbfa1032cb2df1d3783f40
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:31 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.106664

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with four circular ripple patterns and cyan text reading 'hi im cool' in each quadrant.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 07:51 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,083 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 761

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • confident (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • no motion (other, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no motion

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations; static image with four identical ripple patterns.

Colors

  • red
  • cyan
  • black

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • central text
  • concentric circles

Dense Caption

Four identical circular ripple patterns on a solid red background. Each ripple consists of three concentric circles with a central dot. Cyan text reading 'hi im cool' appears in the upper portion of each ripple pattern. The text is rendered in a pixelated font. The ripples are arranged in a 2x2 grid. The central dot of each ripple is slightly offset from the exact center of the circle. The text is positioned above the central dot of each ripple. The color palette consists of red, cyan, and black. The image has a retro digital aesthetic.

Description

  • Red background with four circular ripple patterns and cyan text reading 'hi im cool' in each quadrant.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 20080622185136878267087

Mood

  • playful
  • confident

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background cyan text hi im cool
  • four ripples concentric circles
  • pixelated font
  • retro digital text ripple

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no cropping detected
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated font 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • minimalist

Visible Text

  • hi im cool

Wordwall

  • red background
  • cyan text
  • four ripples
  • concentric circles
  • pixelated font
  • central dot
  • hi im cool
  • retro digital
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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
20080622185136878267087
Archive entry
20080622185136878267087.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 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#20080622185136878267087.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080622185136878267087.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016