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Blue background with red text listing names and terms, separated by a pink wave-like border, with a gray rectangular area on the right side.

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Blue background with red text listing names and terms, separated by a pink wave-like border, with a gray rectangular area on the right side.

Blue background with red text listing names and terms, separated by a pink wave-like border, with a gray rectangular area on the right side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three vertical
  • horizontal wave border
  • gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

The image displays a blue background with red pixelated text listing 'bffs', 'jade', 'aaliyah', and 'kristie' in three vertical columns. A horizontal pink wave-like border separates the top and bottom sections. The bottom section contains two blue columns with the same text as the top, and a solid gray rectangular area occupies the right side of the bottom section. The text is rendered in a retro pixelated style with no visible animation.

Description

  • Blue background with red text listing names and terms, separated by a pink wave-like border, with a gray rectangular area on the right side.

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 red text names
  • pink wave border gray rectangle
  • retro pixelated text
  • three vertical blue background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two blue columns
  • quarantined wordwall: three vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: three vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: three vertical columns blue background
  • quarantined retrieval: retro pixelated text columns

Visible Text

  • bffs
  • jade
  • aaliyah
  • kristie

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • red pixelated text
  • bffs
  • jade
  • aaliyah
  • kristie
  • pink wave border
  • gray rectangle
  • retro pixelated style
  • three vertical
  • two blue
  • solid gray area

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201003230931231601558646
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
638 bytes
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7a/7ac4977550e35e12059b72962742489d9db2031546e70c22f2305bd88cf976a6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC
Archive ID
7ac4977550e35e12
SHA-256
7ac4977550e35e12059b72962742489d9db2031546e70c22f2305bd88cf976a6
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:09 UTC
Run
1067
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073942

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.928424onnx/unsafe0.073942onnx/nsfw0.037234onnx/nsfl0.036707
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue background with red text listing names and terms, separated by a pink wave-like border, with a gray rectangular area on the right side.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 17:58 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,361 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,171, response 674

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • pink
  • gray

Composition

  • three vertical
  • horizontal wave border
  • gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

The image displays a blue background with red pixelated text listing 'bffs', 'jade', 'aaliyah', and 'kristie' in three vertical columns. A horizontal pink wave-like border separates the top and bottom sections. The bottom section contains two blue columns with the same text as the top, and a solid gray rectangular area occupies the right side of the bottom section. The text is rendered in a retro pixelated style with no visible animation.

Description

  • Blue background with red text listing names and terms, separated by a pink wave-like border, with a gray rectangular area on the right side.

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 red text names
  • pink wave border gray rectangle
  • retro pixelated text
  • three vertical blue background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two blue columns
  • quarantined wordwall: three vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: three vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: three vertical columns blue background
  • quarantined retrieval: retro pixelated text columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro

Visible Text

  • bffs
  • jade
  • aaliyah
  • kristie

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • red pixelated text
  • bffs
  • jade
  • aaliyah
  • kristie
  • pink wave border
  • gray rectangle
  • retro pixelated style
  • three vertical
  • two blue
  • solid gray area
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:24 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
201003230931231601558646
Archive entry
201003230931231601558646.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 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#201003230931231601558646.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201003230931231601558646.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016