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Pixelated blue text on dark background with gray smudges, showing three lines of stylized names and a central ampersand symbol.

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Pixelated blue text on dark background with gray smudges, showing three lines of stylized names and a central ampersand symbol.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top line text
  • centered ampersand
  • bottom-left and bottom-right text lines

Dense Caption

Dark blue pixelated background contains four distinct elements: top line reads ".:BLINKY:." in bright blue pixels with one gray smudge over the 'I', middle section has a single blue ampersand, bottom-left line shows ".'LOOM." with two gray smudges (one over 'L' and one over 'O'), bottom-right line displays ".:FOEVA:" with one gray smudge over 'E'. All text uses blocky pixel font; background is solid dark blue with scattered darker pixels. No visible motion or animation.

Description

  • Pixelated blue text on dark background with gray smudges, showing three lines of stylized names and a central ampersand symbol.

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

  • .:BLINKY:. & .'LOOM.' .:FOEVA:
  • blue text dark blue background
  • gray smudges pixelated

Visible Text

  • .:BLINKY:.
  • &
  • .'LOOM.'
  • .:FOEVA:

Visually Supported Entities

  • text elements

Wordwall

  • .:BLINKY:.
  • &
  • .'LOOM.'
  • .:FOEVA:
  • blue text
  • dark blue background
  • gray smudges

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070928172842977296961
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
990 bytes
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/68/6833ecb9605513360fdc647f81b45213a3678bc360281013db7ae8a1640f1f05.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC
Archive ID
6833ecb960551336
SHA-256
6833ecb9605513360fdc647f81b45213a3678bc360281013db7ae8a1640f1f05
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:46 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075688

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated blue text on dark background with gray smudges, showing three lines of stylized names and a central ampersand symbol.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 05:31 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,517 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 633

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text elements (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • dark blue
  • gray

Composition

  • top line text
  • centered ampersand
  • bottom-left and bottom-right text lines

Dense Caption

Dark blue pixelated background contains four distinct elements: top line reads ".:BLINKY:." in bright blue pixels with one gray smudge over the 'I', middle section has a single blue ampersand, bottom-left line shows ".'LOOM." with two gray smudges (one over 'L' and one over 'O'), bottom-right line displays ".:FOEVA:" with one gray smudge over 'E'. All text uses blocky pixel font; background is solid dark blue with scattered darker pixels. No visible motion or animation.

Description

  • Pixelated blue text on dark background with gray smudges, showing three lines of stylized names and a central ampersand symbol.

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • .:BLINKY:. & .'LOOM.' .:FOEVA:
  • blue text dark blue background
  • gray smudges pixelated

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • text elements

Visible Text

  • .:BLINKY:.
  • &
  • .'LOOM.'
  • .:FOEVA:

Visually Supported Entities

  • text elements

Wordwall

  • .:BLINKY:.
  • &
  • .'LOOM.'
  • .:FOEVA:
  • blue text
  • dark blue background
  • gray smudges
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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
20070928172842977296961
Archive entry
20070928172842977296961.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#20070928172842977296961.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070928172842977296961.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016