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Blue background with repeated blue text 'homister homister' and scattered pink plus signs.

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Blue background with repeated blue text 'homister homister' and scattered pink plus signs.

Blue background with repeated blue text 'homister homister' and scattered pink plus signs. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two horizontal text lines
  • scattered plus signs
  • centered text placement

Dense Caption

The image features a bright cyan background. Two horizontal lines of pixelated blue text reading 'homister homister' are centered vertically, one near the top edge and one in the middle. Scattered across the background are multiple small pink plus signs (some larger, some smaller) positioned randomly between and around the text lines. The visual style is retro digital with low-resolution pixel art.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated blue text 'homister homister' and scattered pink plus signs.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803271434521983362856

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • homister homister cyan background
  • pixel art pink plus signs
  • blue text cyan background
  • scattered plus signs pixel art

Visible Text

  • homister homister

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • blue text 'homister homister'
  • pink plus signs
  • pixelated font
  • two horizontal text lines
  • scattered small dots

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803271434521983362856
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6b/6bdb7253fe57396a8516b7433967707195410ae8741c14f63f79a236802653e1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC
Archive ID
6bdb7253fe57396a
SHA-256
6bdb7253fe57396a8516b7433967707195410ae8741c14f63f79a236802653e1
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:50 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.128897

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with repeated blue text 'homister homister' and scattered pink plus signs.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 20:30 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,651 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 630

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • blue
  • pink

Composition

  • two horizontal text lines
  • scattered plus signs
  • centered text placement

Dense Caption

The image features a bright cyan background. Two horizontal lines of pixelated blue text reading 'homister homister' are centered vertically, one near the top edge and one in the middle. Scattered across the background are multiple small pink plus signs (some larger, some smaller) positioned randomly between and around the text lines. The visual style is retro digital with low-resolution pixel art.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated blue text 'homister homister' and scattered pink plus signs.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803271434521983362856

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • homister homister cyan background
  • pixel art pink plus signs
  • blue text cyan background
  • scattered plus signs pixel art

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • homister homister

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • blue text 'homister homister'
  • pink plus signs
  • pixelated font
  • two horizontal text lines
  • scattered small 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
200803271434521983362856
Archive entry
200803271434521983362856.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 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#200803271434521983362856.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803271434521983362856.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016