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Blue background with scattered green plus signs and four instances of the text 'otis' in light blue pixelated font.

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Blue background with scattered green plus signs and four instances of the text 'otis' in light blue pixelated font.

Blue background with scattered green plus signs and four instances of the text 'otis' in light blue pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered plus signs
  • four text instances

Dense Caption

The image features a solid blue background. Scattered across the background are multiple green plus signs of varying sizes, rendered in a pixelated style. Four instances of the text 'otis' appear in light blue pixelated font, positioned at the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right areas of the image. The plus signs are distributed without a clear pattern, with some larger and some smaller. The text 'otis' is consistently styled with a blocky, retro digital appearance. No animation is visible in the static image.

Description

  • Blue background with scattered green plus signs and four instances of the text 'otis' in light blue pixelated 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background green plus signs otis
  • otis text pixelated blue
  • four otis instances
  • green plus signs scattered

Visible Text

  • otis

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • green plus signs
  • light blue text
  • pixelated font
  • four 'otis' instances
  • scattered plus signs
  • retro digital style
  • blocky text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201111090253551325283835
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
557 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/74/74589b4cafb1a5754dcfb21d26b1cfa9912c94dc321910d7aa91e00e521ddd7e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC
Archive ID
74589b4cafb1a575
SHA-256
74589b4cafb1a5754dcfb21d26b1cfa9912c94dc321910d7aa91e00e521ddd7e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:58 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.105905

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with scattered green plus signs and four instances of the text 'otis' in light blue pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 01:13 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,566 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 662

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • plus signs (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • green
  • light blue

Composition

  • scattered plus signs
  • four text instances

Dense Caption

The image features a solid blue background. Scattered across the background are multiple green plus signs of varying sizes, rendered in a pixelated style. Four instances of the text 'otis' appear in light blue pixelated font, positioned at the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right areas of the image. The plus signs are distributed without a clear pattern, with some larger and some smaller. The text 'otis' is consistently styled with a blocky, retro digital appearance. No animation is visible in the static image.

Description

  • Blue background with scattered green plus signs and four instances of the text 'otis' in light blue pixelated 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background green plus signs otis
  • otis text pixelated blue
  • four otis instances
  • green plus signs scattered

Objects

  • plus signs

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • otis

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • green plus signs
  • light blue text
  • pixelated font
  • four 'otis' instances
  • scattered plus signs
  • retro digital style
  • blocky text
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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
201111090253551325283835
Archive entry
201111090253551325283835.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 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#201111090253551325283835.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201111090253551325283835.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016