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Four identical blue circular ripple patterns on green background with black text 'SMILEY' and '=)' above each pattern.

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Four identical blue circular ripple patterns on green background with black text 'SMILEY' and '=)' above each pattern.

Four identical blue circular ripple patterns on green background with black text 'SMILEY' and '=)' above each pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • centered ripples

Dense Caption

Green background contains four identical blue concentric circle ripple patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each ripple has three visible rings. Above every ripple, the text 'SMILEY' appears in bold black capital letters followed by '=)'. The image is static with no animation changes observed across all frames.

Description

  • Four identical blue circular ripple patterns on green background with black text 'SMILEY' and '=)' above each pattern.

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
  • 200709271708181431391840

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background blue ripples
  • SMILEY text ripple patterns
  • =) smiley face green
  • concentric circles

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in any frame
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid concentric circles

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • SMILEY
  • =)

Wordwall

  • green background
  • blue concentric circles
  • four identical ripples
  • text SMILEY
  • =) smiley face

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709271708181431391840
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5f/5f887ee94cc5095ceb09136be6bf2f6dcd614e804f39fb59f9e9e690fa55c64d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC
Archive ID
5f887ee94cc5095c
SHA-256
5f887ee94cc5095ceb09136be6bf2f6dcd614e804f39fb59f9e9e690fa55c64d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:38 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086087

OpenAI category scores

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Four identical blue circular ripple patterns on green background with black text 'SMILEY' and '=)' above each pattern.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 05:18 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,122 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 609

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • concentric circles (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay (style, 0.80)
  • ripple patterns (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • blue
  • black

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • centered ripples

Dense Caption

Green background contains four identical blue concentric circle ripple patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each ripple has three visible rings. Above every ripple, the text 'SMILEY' appears in bold black capital letters followed by '=)'. The image is static with no animation changes observed across all frames.

Description

  • Four identical blue circular ripple patterns on green background with black text 'SMILEY' and '=)' above each pattern.

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
  • 200709271708181431391840

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background blue ripples
  • SMILEY text ripple patterns
  • =) smiley face green
  • concentric circles

Objects

  • concentric circles

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in any frame
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid concentric circles

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • ripple patterns

Visible Text

  • SMILEY
  • =)

Wordwall

  • green background
  • blue concentric circles
  • four identical ripples
  • text SMILEY
  • =) smiley face
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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
200709271708181431391840
Archive entry
200709271708181431391840.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 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#200709271708181431391840.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709271708181431391840.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016