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Blue background with yellow and gray circles, pink '<8' symbols, and 'dots..' text in pixelated style.

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Blue background with yellow and gray circles, pink '<8' symbols, and 'dots..' text in pixelated style.

Blue background with yellow and gray circles, pink '<8' symbols, and 'dots..' text in pixelated style. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; static pattern of circles and text.

Composition

  • overlapping circles
  • text placement near circle clusters

Dense Caption

The image features a blue background filled with overlapping circular shapes in yellow and gray tones. Pink pixelated text '<8' appears multiple times near the top-left of each circle cluster. Below these clusters, the word 'dots..' is displayed in pink pixelated font. The circles vary in size and overlap partially, creating a patterned composition without any visible motion or animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Blue background with yellow and gray circles, pink '<8' symbols, and 'dots..' text in pixelated style.

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
  • 200804171829371380278851

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background yellow gray circles
  • pink '<8' symbols dots text
  • pixelated repeating circle pattern
  • yellow gray blue color scheme

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed in static image

Visible Text

  • <8
  • dots..

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • yellow circles
  • gray circles
  • pink '<8' symbols
  • pixelated text 'dots..'
  • overlapping shapes

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804171829371380278851
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/60/60947da36e3002c8d576988ba62dffeffaa6105d1423f1d2daa55a87f591b686.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC
Archive ID
60947da36e3002c8
SHA-256
60947da36e3002c8d576988ba62dffeffaa6105d1423f1d2daa55a87f591b686
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 16:10 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000034

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:39 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.260960

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Blue background with yellow and gray circles, pink '<8' symbols, and 'dots..' text in pixelated style.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 05:20 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,909 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 556

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; static pattern of circles and text.

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • gray
  • pink

Composition

  • overlapping circles
  • text placement near circle clusters

Dense Caption

The image features a blue background filled with overlapping circular shapes in yellow and gray tones. Pink pixelated text '<8' appears multiple times near the top-left of each circle cluster. Below these clusters, the word 'dots..' is displayed in pink pixelated font. The circles vary in size and overlap partially, creating a patterned composition without any visible motion or animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Blue background with yellow and gray circles, pink '<8' symbols, and 'dots..' text in pixelated style.

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
  • 200804171829371380278851

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background yellow gray circles
  • pink '<8' symbols dots text
  • pixelated repeating circle pattern
  • yellow gray blue color scheme

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed in static image

Style

  • pixelated
  • repeating pattern

Visible Text

  • <8
  • dots..

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • yellow circles
  • gray circles
  • pink '<8' symbols
  • pixelated text 'dots..'
  • overlapping shapes
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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
200804171829371380278851
Archive entry
200804171829371380278851.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 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#200804171829371380278851.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804171829371380278851.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016