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Blue background with repeating white bubble shapes and yellow 'bubbles' text in four locations.

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Blue background with repeating white bubble shapes and yellow 'bubbles' text in four locations.

Blue background with repeating white bubble shapes and yellow 'bubbles' text in four locations. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ic…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • staggered of bubble shapes
  • four instances of text distributed across the image

Dense Caption

The image displays a blue background filled with repeated white bubble-shaped patterns. Four instances of the word "bubbles" appear in bright yellow, pixelated font across the composition: two near the top edge and two near the bottom edge. The bubbles are arranged in horizontal rows, each row offset to create a staggered pattern. All elements maintain consistent size and spacing throughout the visible area.

Description

  • Blue background with repeating white bubble shapes and yellow 'bubbles' text in four locations.

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
  • 200808022013291812840897

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue bubble background
  • yellow bubbles text
  • repeating white bubbles
  • staggered bubble pattern

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined style: grid-like composition
  • quarantined composition: staggered rows of bubble shapes

Visible Text

  • bubbles

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white bubble shapes
  • yellow text
  • "bubbles" word
  • repeating patterns
  • staggered arrangement

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808022013291812840897
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/71/7101fd0a3f0bab71b298d467d6a6b8f50c27ca32f34e002fa720d8f9708dc9dc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC
Archive ID
7101fd0a3f0bab71
SHA-256
7101fd0a3f0bab71b298d467d6a6b8f50c27ca32f34e002fa720d8f9708dc9dc
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
0.100855

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with repeating white bubble shapes and yellow 'bubbles' text in four locations.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,579 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 620

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • bubble shapes (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • like composition (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • yellow

Composition

  • staggered of bubble shapes
  • four instances of text distributed across the image

Dense Caption

The image displays a blue background filled with repeated white bubble-shaped patterns. Four instances of the word "bubbles" appear in bright yellow, pixelated font across the composition: two near the top edge and two near the bottom edge. The bubbles are arranged in horizontal rows, each row offset to create a staggered pattern. All elements maintain consistent size and spacing throughout the visible area.

Description

  • Blue background with repeating white bubble shapes and yellow 'bubbles' text in four locations.

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
  • 200808022013291812840897

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue bubble background
  • yellow bubbles text
  • repeating white bubbles
  • staggered bubble pattern

Objects

  • bubble shapes
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined style: grid-like composition
  • quarantined composition: staggered rows of bubble shapes

Style

  • pixelated
  • repeating pattern
  • like composition

Visible Text

  • bubbles

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white bubble shapes
  • yellow text
  • "bubbles" word
  • repeating patterns
  • staggered arrangement
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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
200808022013291812840897
Archive entry
200808022013291812840897.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 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#200808022013291812840897.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808022013291812840897.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016