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Pixelated cyan and light cyan checkered background with repeated text and emoticons in black pixel font.

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Pixelated cyan and light cyan checkered background with repeated text and emoticons in black pixel font.

Pixelated cyan and light cyan checkered background with repeated text and emoticons in black pixel font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • background alternates between checkered and diamond patterns
  • text and emoticons remain static

Animation Summary

  • The background alternates between a checkered pattern and a diamond pattern while the text and emoticons remain static.

Composition

  • vertical sequence
  • repeating elements

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated cyan and light cyan checkered background with repeated text and emoticons in black pixel font. The text "Hey!" appears twice in the sequence, each instance flanked by dashed lines. The emoticons include ")", ":", and ")" in a repeating pattern. The background alternates between a solid checkered pattern and a diamond-shaped pattern. The text and emoticons are arranged in a vertical sequence with consistent spacing between elements. The overall style is retro digital with a limited color palette of cyan and black.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan and light cyan checkered background with repeated text and emoticons in black pixel font.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090331221917812003881

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background hey emoticons
  • pixelated hey text
  • checkered diamond background
  • retro digital hey emoticons

Preprocessing Notes

The image is a static representation of an animated asset; the animation involves background pattern changes while text and emoticons stay fixed.

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • Hey!

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • light cyan background
  • checkered pattern
  • diamond pattern
  • black text
  • Hey! text
  • dashed lines
  • emoticons
  • ):
  • pixelated
  • vertical sequence
  • repeating elements
  • retro digital
  • limited color palette

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090331221917812003881
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/71/715d7571435a3a9fa837d897b0129ab1b05bca55eba034d6b39bd708f7ae2ed4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC
Archive ID
715d7571435a3a9f
SHA-256
715d7571435a3a9fa837d897b0129ab1b05bca55eba034d6b39bd708f7ae2ed4
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.123643

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.942017onnx/unsafe0.123643onnx/nsfw0.083502onnx/nsfl0.040141
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated cyan and light cyan checkered background with repeated text and emoticons in black pixel font.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 05:00 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,240 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 887

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • light cyan (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dashed lines (object, 0.80)
  • text and emoticons remain static (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • emoticons (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • background alternates between checkered and diamond patterns
  • text and emoticons remain static

Animation Summary

  • The background alternates between a checkered pattern and a diamond pattern while the text and emoticons remain static.

Colors

  • cyan
  • light cyan
  • black

Composition

  • vertical sequence
  • repeating elements

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated cyan and light cyan checkered background with repeated text and emoticons in black pixel font. The text "Hey!" appears twice in the sequence, each instance flanked by dashed lines. The emoticons include ")", ":", and ")" in a repeating pattern. The background alternates between a solid checkered pattern and a diamond-shaped pattern. The text and emoticons are arranged in a vertical sequence with consistent spacing between elements. The overall style is retro digital with a limited color palette of cyan and black.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan and light cyan checkered background with repeated text and emoticons in black pixel font.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090331221917812003881

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background hey emoticons
  • pixelated hey text
  • checkered diamond background
  • retro digital hey emoticons

Objects

  • dashed lines

Preprocessing Notes

The image is a static representation of an animated asset; the animation involves background pattern changes while text and emoticons stay fixed.

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • emoticons

Visible Text

  • Hey!

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • light cyan background
  • checkered pattern
  • diamond pattern
  • black text
  • Hey! text
  • dashed lines
  • emoticons
  • ):
  • pixelated
  • vertical sequence
  • repeating elements
  • retro digital
  • limited color palette
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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
20090331221917812003881
Archive entry
20090331221917812003881.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 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#20090331221917812003881.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090331221917812003881.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016