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A static image with a tie-dye background in orange, blue, and yellow swirls displaying text fragments.

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A static image with a tie-dye background in orange, blue, and yellow swirls displaying text fragments.

A static image with a tie-dye background in orange, blue, and yellow swirls displaying text fragments. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four
  • centered text fragments
  • swirling background

Dense Caption

The image features a pixelated tie-dye pattern background composed of swirling bands of bright orange, turquoise, and yellow. Four distinct text fragments appear: 'he dye' and 'is' on the top-left panel; 'the new' in the center-top panel; 'black' on the top-right panel; and 'tada' centered at the bottom. All text is rendered in white with black outlines using a pixelated font style.

Description

  • A static image with a tie-dye background in orange, blue, and yellow swirls displaying text fragments.

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
  • 20080724104003635443743

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • tie-dye text fragments
  • orange turquoise yellow swirls
  • pixelated white black text
  • four

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid layout

Visible Text

  • he dye
  • is
  • the new
  • black
  • tada

Wordwall

  • tie-dye background
  • orange swirls
  • turquoise bands
  • yellow accents
  • white text
  • black outlines
  • pixelated font
  • text fragments

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080724104003635443743
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
9.5 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/75/75cd1b605cf46cecaa4c13e20d00ea145fe23151ec175f25ddedbe85316009c3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
75cd1b605cf46cec
SHA-256
75cd1b605cf46cecaa4c13e20d00ea145fe23151ec175f25ddedbe85316009c3
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:01 UTC
Run
1041
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.070002

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.936919onnx/unsafe0.070002onnx/nsfl0.035222onnx/nsfw0.034780
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A static image with a tie-dye background in orange, blue, and yellow swirls displaying text fragments.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 13:57 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,733 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,162, response 646

Review tags

  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • turquoise (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • tie dye pattern (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • orange
  • turquoise
  • yellow

Composition

  • four
  • centered text fragments
  • swirling background

Dense Caption

The image features a pixelated tie-dye pattern background composed of swirling bands of bright orange, turquoise, and yellow. Four distinct text fragments appear: 'he dye' and 'is' on the top-left panel; 'the new' in the center-top panel; 'black' on the top-right panel; and 'tada' centered at the bottom. All text is rendered in white with black outlines using a pixelated font style.

Description

  • A static image with a tie-dye background in orange, blue, and yellow swirls displaying text fragments.

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
  • 20080724104003635443743

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • tie-dye text fragments
  • orange turquoise yellow swirls
  • pixelated white black text
  • four

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • tie-dye pattern
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • he dye
  • is
  • the new
  • black
  • tada

Wordwall

  • tie-dye background
  • orange swirls
  • turquoise bands
  • yellow accents
  • white text
  • black outlines
  • pixelated font
  • text fragments
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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
20080724104003635443743
Archive entry
20080724104003635443743.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#20080724104003635443743.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080724104003635443743.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016