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Blue background with yellow star shapes and green text reading "Alex" in four positions, all static without animation.

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Blue background with yellow star shapes and green text reading "Alex" in four positions, all static without animation.

Blue background with yellow star shapes and green text reading "Alex" in four positions, all static without animation. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all elements remain static across observations.

Composition

  • four text positions
  • star distribution across background

Dense Caption

The image shows a blue background filled with small yellow cross-shaped stars. Four instances of the word "Alex" appear in bright green pixelated font: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. The text has slight visual distortion typical of low-resolution digital rendering. No motion or frame changes are visible; all elements remain fixed across observations.

Description

  • Blue background with yellow star shapes and green text reading "Alex" in four positions, all static without animation.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200709091618211511066002
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background yellow stars green text Alex pixel art
  • Alex blue background four positions yellow cross stars
  • pixel art blue background yellow stars green Alex text
  • four Alex texts blue background yellow star shapes

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; all observations show identical static content

Visible Text

  • Alex

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • yellow cross-shaped stars
  • green pixelated "Alex" text
  • four instances of text
  • low-resolution digital rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709091618211511066002
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/69/69799e5549289516550ea4277e52d4faa4b8fc7801f13671eaa2949ec3076f0a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC
Archive ID
69799e5549289516
SHA-256
69799e5549289516550ea4277e52d4faa4b8fc7801f13671eaa2949ec3076f0a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:48 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.103764

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.925984onnx/unsafe0.103764onnx/nsfw0.064232onnx/nsfl0.039532
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Blue background with yellow star shapes and green text reading "Alex" in four positions, all static without animation.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 00:49 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,490 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 563

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • yellow cross shaped stars (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text alex (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all elements remain static across observations.

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • green

Composition

  • four text positions
  • star distribution across background

Dense Caption

The image shows a blue background filled with small yellow cross-shaped stars. Four instances of the word "Alex" appear in bright green pixelated font: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. The text has slight visual distortion typical of low-resolution digital rendering. No motion or frame changes are visible; all elements remain fixed across observations.

Description

  • Blue background with yellow star shapes and green text reading "Alex" in four positions, all static without animation.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200709091618211511066002
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background yellow stars green text Alex pixel art
  • Alex blue background four positions yellow cross stars
  • pixel art blue background yellow stars green Alex text
  • four Alex texts blue background yellow star shapes

Objects

  • yellow cross-shaped stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; all observations show identical static content

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text "Alex"

Visible Text

  • Alex

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • yellow cross-shaped stars
  • green pixelated "Alex" text
  • four instances of text
  • low-resolution digital rendering
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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
200709091618211511066002
Archive entry
200709091618211511066002.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 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#200709091618211511066002.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709091618211511066002.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016