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Blue bubble background with text elements displaying nickname and emoticons in pixelated font.

Blue bubble background with text elements displaying nickname and emoticons in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central text elements
  • scattered bubbles
  • partial bottom-left text

Dense Caption

The image features a static composition of light blue bubbles on white background. Text elements include 'nickname:' in dark blue, 'BUBBLZ!' in bold blue, '<399' in blue, and partial text 'i <3 bublz!' at bottom left. All text uses pixelated font style with black outlines. Bubbles vary in size and opacity, creating layered effect.

Description

  • Blue bubble background with text elements displaying nickname and emoticons in 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bubbles nickname BUBBLZ!
  • light blue bubbles text
  • pixelated bubble icon
  • <399 bublz!

Visible Text

  • nickname:
  • BUBBLZ!
  • <399
  • i <3 bublz!

Visually Supported Entities

  • BUBBLZ!

Wordwall

  • light blue bubbles
  • white background
  • pixelated font
  • nickname:
  • BUBBLZ!
  • <399
  • i <3 bublz!

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807180720554372683
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7a/7a61561d58e7e61efec79d98c5fb18114037b98b9fc874697021ed5940e99cf3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
7a61561d58e7e61e
SHA-256
7a61561d58e7e61efec79d98c5fb18114037b98b9fc874697021ed5940e99cf3
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 30, 2026 at 07:01 UTC
Run
15966
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000844

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Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 14:13 UTC
Run
1272
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:16 UTC
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106
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.238926

OpenAI category scores

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Blue bubble background with text elements displaying nickname and emoticons in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 12:57 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,577 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 581

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • bubble themed (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • bubbles (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • white
  • dark blue
  • black

Composition

  • central text elements
  • scattered bubbles
  • partial bottom-left text

Dense Caption

The image features a static composition of light blue bubbles on white background. Text elements include 'nickname:' in dark blue, 'BUBBLZ!' in bold blue, '<399' in blue, and partial text 'i <3 bublz!' at bottom left. All text uses pixelated font style with black outlines. Bubbles vary in size and opacity, creating layered effect.

Description

  • Blue bubble background with text elements displaying nickname and emoticons in 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

Mood

  • playful
  • casual

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bubbles nickname BUBBLZ!
  • light blue bubbles text
  • pixelated bubble icon
  • <399 bublz!

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • bubble-themed

Subjects

  • bubbles

Visible Text

  • nickname:
  • BUBBLZ!
  • <399
  • i <3 bublz!

Visually Supported Entities

  • BUBBLZ!

Wordwall

  • light blue bubbles
  • white background
  • pixelated font
  • nickname:
  • BUBBLZ!
  • <399
  • i <3 bublz!
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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
200807180720554372683
Archive entry
200807180720554372683.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#200807180720554372683.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807180720554372683.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016