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Red pixelated text on black background with animated white symbols changing across frames.

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Red pixelated text on black background with animated white symbols changing across frames.

Red pixelated text on black background with animated white symbols changing across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • white symbols change from plus to asterisk to cross then to dots

Animation Summary

White symbols change sequentially across three : plus sign → asterisk → cross → dots. Text remains static red pixelated text on black background

Composition

  • three vertical

Dense Caption

Black background displays red pixelated text reading 'Matt nd Sim friends 4eva' in three vertical columns. White symbols appear and change: first column shows a plus sign, second an asterisk, third a cross; later frames show the same symbols as smaller dots or disappear entirely. Text remains static throughout animation. Symbols animate sequentially across all three columns simultaneously.

Description

  • Red pixelated text on black background with animated white symbols changing across frames.

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
  • 20081004115042292059103
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated text black background
  • three vertical white animated symbols
  • plus sign asterisk cross dots animation

Objects

  • plus sign

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: White symbols change sequentially across three columns: plus sign → asterisk → cross → dots. Text remains static red pixelated text on black background.
  • quarantined wordwall: three vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: three vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: three vertical columns white animated symbols

Visible Text

  • Matt
  • nd
  • Sim
  • friends
  • 4eva

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • three vertical
  • 'Matt nd Sim friends 4eva'
  • white animated symbols
  • plus sign
  • asterisk
  • cross
  • dots

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081004115042292059103
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
510 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/69/6980e1dee61ca84cb544edbdc7395853c2c3b3f6827db7fb2191d23888990563.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
6980e1dee61ca84c
SHA-256
6980e1dee61ca84cb544edbdc7395853c2c3b3f6827db7fb2191d23888990563
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.126197

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Red pixelated text on black background with animated white symbols changing across frames.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:50 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,289 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 614

Review tags

  • symbols animate (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • asterisk (object, 0.80)
  • cross (object, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • plus sign (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • symbols animate

Animation

  • white symbols change from plus to asterisk to cross then to dots

Animation Summary

White symbols change sequentially across three : plus sign → asterisk → cross → dots. Text remains static red pixelated text on black background

Colors

  • black
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • three vertical

Dense Caption

Black background displays red pixelated text reading 'Matt nd Sim friends 4eva' in three vertical columns. White symbols appear and change: first column shows a plus sign, second an asterisk, third a cross; later frames show the same symbols as smaller dots or disappear entirely. Text remains static throughout animation. Symbols animate sequentially across all three columns simultaneously.

Description

  • Red pixelated text on black background with animated white symbols changing across frames.

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
  • 20081004115042292059103
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated text black background
  • three vertical white animated symbols
  • plus sign asterisk cross dots animation

Objects

  • plus sign
  • asterisk
  • cross
  • dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: White symbols change sequentially across three columns: plus sign → asterisk → cross → dots. Text remains static red pixelated text on black background.
  • quarantined wordwall: three vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: three vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: three vertical columns white animated symbols

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • Matt
  • nd
  • Sim
  • friends
  • 4eva

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • three vertical
  • 'Matt nd Sim friends 4eva'
  • white animated symbols
  • plus sign
  • asterisk
  • cross
  • dots
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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
20081004115042292059103
Archive entry
20081004115042292059103.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#20081004115042292059103.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081004115042292059103.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016