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Blue background with light blue pixelated text and symbols arranged in a pattern, featuring repeated 'RULE' text and asterisk-like shapes

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Blue background with light blue pixelated text and symbols arranged in a pattern, featuring repeated 'RULE' text and asterisk-like shapes

Blue background with light blue pixelated text and symbols arranged in a pattern, featuring repeated 'RULE' text and asterisk-like shapes. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • repeating patterns

Dense Caption

Blue background with light blue pixelated text and symbols arranged in a grid pattern. The text 'RULE' appears in a stylized, pixelated font in multiple locations. Light blue asterisk-like shapes and dotted lines form a border and decorative elements. The image has a retro, low-resolution aesthetic with repeating patterns and symmetrical composition. The text 'RULE' is consistently displayed in the same pixelated style across the image. The overall design features a grid layout with horizontal and vertical dotted lines connecting the decorative elements.

Description

  • Blue background with light blue pixelated text and symbols arranged in a pattern, featuring repeated 'RULE' text and asterisk-like shapes

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pixelated rule text
  • repeated rule
  • light blue asterisk border
  • retro

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with light blue pixelated text and symbols arranged in a grid pattern, featuring repeated 'RULE' text and asterisk-like shapes.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid-based
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: retro grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated rule grid

Visible Text

  • RULE

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • light blue text
  • pixelated style
  • repeated 'RULE' text
  • asterisk-like shapes
  • dotted lines
  • symmetrical composition
  • retro aesthetic
  • low-resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081124150149147197801
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/69/694eeab09bb574480479e2d3970aa4d22a7739520411ef01d8308a026c225e3c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
694eeab09bb57448
SHA-256
694eeab09bb574480479e2d3970aa4d22a7739520411ef01d8308a026c225e3c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:47 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.122213

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Blue background with light blue pixelated text and symbols arranged in a pattern, featuring repeated 'RULE' text and asterisk-like shapes

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 10:24 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,001 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 664

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • geometric (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • based (style, 0.80)
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  • retro (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • light blue

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • repeating patterns

Dense Caption

Blue background with light blue pixelated text and symbols arranged in a grid pattern. The text 'RULE' appears in a stylized, pixelated font in multiple locations. Light blue asterisk-like shapes and dotted lines form a border and decorative elements. The image has a retro, low-resolution aesthetic with repeating patterns and symmetrical composition. The text 'RULE' is consistently displayed in the same pixelated style across the image. The overall design features a grid layout with horizontal and vertical dotted lines connecting the decorative elements.

Description

  • Blue background with light blue pixelated text and symbols arranged in a pattern, featuring repeated 'RULE' text and asterisk-like shapes

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral
  • geometric

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pixelated rule text
  • repeated rule
  • light blue asterisk border
  • retro

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with light blue pixelated text and symbols arranged in a grid pattern, featuring repeated 'RULE' text and asterisk-like shapes.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid-based
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: retro grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated rule grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • based

Visible Text

  • RULE

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • light blue text
  • pixelated style
  • repeated 'RULE' text
  • asterisk-like shapes
  • dotted lines
  • symmetrical composition
  • retro aesthetic
  • low-resolution
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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
20081124150149147197801
Archive entry
20081124150149147197801.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#20081124150149147197801.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081124150149147197801.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016