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Pixelated blue and white icon with 'FRANKS' text and 'SOFTLAI' below, featuring a glowing central effect and repeating border elements.

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Pixelated blue and white icon with 'FRANKS' text and 'SOFTLAI' below, featuring a glowing central effect and repeating border elements.

Pixelated blue and white icon with 'FRANKS' text and 'SOFTLAI' below, featuring a glowing central effect and repeating border elements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Composition

  • central glow
  • text layout
  • border pattern

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid blue background. Each icon features a central glowing effect with a light blue to white gradient. Surrounding the glow is the text 'FRANKS' in large, blocky, light blue capital letters. Below 'FRANKS' is the text 'SOFTLAI' in smaller light blue capital letters. The entire text area is bordered by a repeating pattern of small, light blue, pixelated shapes resembling stylized 'S' or 'C' curves. The overall style is retro digital with a low-resolution, 8-bit aesthetic. The icons are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated blue and white icon with 'FRANKS' text and 'SOFTLAI' below, featuring a glowing central effect and repeating border elements.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • franks softlai pixelated icon
  • blue glowing text icon
  • 8-bit franks softlai
  • pixelated blue text icon

Visible Text

  • FRANKS
  • SOFTLAI

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • glowing central effect
  • light blue text
  • FRANKS text
  • SOFTLAI text
  • pixelated border
  • 8-bit style
  • repeating shapes
  • solid blue
  • gradient glow

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807101207061895162920
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Archive ID
7081dde9344b9992
SHA-256
7081dde9344b9992de6c452ecc17bfb795fa9908d915cddfd9ec1a1f1f0afa95
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:55 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094580

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated blue and white icon with 'FRANKS' text and 'SOFTLAI' below, featuring a glowing central effect and repeating border elements.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 11:41 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,003 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 706

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • light blue
  • white

Composition

  • central glow
  • text layout
  • border pattern

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid blue background. Each icon features a central glowing effect with a light blue to white gradient. Surrounding the glow is the text 'FRANKS' in large, blocky, light blue capital letters. Below 'FRANKS' is the text 'SOFTLAI' in smaller light blue capital letters. The entire text area is bordered by a repeating pattern of small, light blue, pixelated shapes resembling stylized 'S' or 'C' curves. The overall style is retro digital with a low-resolution, 8-bit aesthetic. The icons are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated blue and white icon with 'FRANKS' text and 'SOFTLAI' below, featuring a glowing central effect and repeating border elements.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • franks softlai pixelated icon
  • blue glowing text icon
  • 8-bit franks softlai
  • pixelated blue text icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • FRANKS
  • SOFTLAI

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • glowing central effect
  • light blue text
  • FRANKS text
  • SOFTLAI text
  • pixelated border
  • 8-bit style
  • repeating shapes
  • solid blue
  • gradient glow
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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
200807101207061895162920
Archive entry
200807101207061895162920.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#200807101207061895162920.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807101207061895162920.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016