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Light blue background with two yellow birds and white text 'aerie aerie' below, plus a blue 'My Life' text box above the right bird.

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Light blue background with two yellow birds and white text 'aerie aerie' below, plus a blue 'My Life' text box above the right bird.

Light blue background with two yellow birds and white text 'aerie aerie' below, plus a blue 'My Life' text box above the right bird. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two birds
  • text below
  • text box above right bird

Dense Caption

Light blue background. Two yellow birds: left bird is static, right bird has a blue 'My Life' text box above it. Text 'aerie aerie' in white pixelated font below birds. 'My Life' text box is blue with white pixelated letters. Left bird is fully visible; right bird is partially obscured by the text box. No animation changes observed.

Description

  • Light blue background with two yellow birds and white text 'aerie aerie' below, plus a blue 'My Life' text box above the right bird.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • aerie aerie birds
  • my life text box
  • light blue background birds
  • yellow birds white text

Visible Text

  • aerie
  • My
  • Life

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • two yellow birds
  • white text 'aerie aerie'
  • blue 'My Life' text box
  • left bird static
  • right bird partially obscured
  • white pixelated font
  • blue text box

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080705172517866196549
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/77/77402fc225b97ca6cc3567608bb13760bfcec4cfb89a2918744bccdb1b30e465.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
77402fc225b97ca6
SHA-256
77402fc225b97ca6cc3567608bb13760bfcec4cfb89a2918744bccdb1b30e465
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:02 UTC
Run
1049
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084061

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Light blue background with two yellow birds and white text 'aerie aerie' below, plus a blue 'My Life' text box above the right bird.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 10:46 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,276 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 603

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • text box (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • birds (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • yellow
  • white
  • blue

Composition

  • two birds
  • text below
  • text box above right bird

Dense Caption

Light blue background. Two yellow birds: left bird is static, right bird has a blue 'My Life' text box above it. Text 'aerie aerie' in white pixelated font below birds. 'My Life' text box is blue with white pixelated letters. Left bird is fully visible; right bird is partially obscured by the text box. No animation changes observed.

Description

  • Light blue background with two yellow birds and white text 'aerie aerie' below, plus a blue 'My Life' text box above the right bird.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • aerie aerie birds
  • my life text box
  • light blue background birds
  • yellow birds white text

Objects

  • text box

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • birds

Visible Text

  • aerie
  • My
  • Life

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • two yellow birds
  • white text 'aerie aerie'
  • blue 'My Life' text box
  • left bird static
  • right bird partially obscured
  • white pixelated font
  • blue text box
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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
20080705172517866196549
Archive entry
20080705172517866196549.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#20080705172517866196549.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080705172517866196549.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016