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Blue background with green 'TAY!' text repeated in a , scattered light blue stars, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner

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Blue background with green 'TAY!' text repeated in a , scattered light blue stars, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner

Blue background with green 'TAY!' text repeated in a , scattered light blue stars, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four
  • text repetition
  • star scattering
  • corner rectangle

Dense Caption

Blue background with scattered light blue stars of varying sizes. Four rows of four green 'TAY!' text elements arranged in a grid pattern. Each 'TAY!' text is in a bold, pixelated font with an exclamation mark. Light blue stars are positioned around the text elements, some near the top-left, top-right, and bottom-right corners. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner of the image. The image has a static composition with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Blue background with green 'TAY!' text repeated in a , scattered light blue stars, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner

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 text tay
  • tay text stars
  • green tay exclamation mark
  • light blue stars blue background
  • gray rectangle corner
  • pixel art tay text
  • text repetition
  • static image tay stars

Objects

  • rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with green 'TAY!' text repeated in a grid, scattered light blue stars, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.
  • quarantined wordwall: uniform grid
  • quarantined wordwall: four columns
  • quarantined wordwall: four rows
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four columns
  • quarantined composition: four rows
  • quarantined retrieval: text repetition grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: tay text stars grid

Visible Text

  • TAY!

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • green text
  • TAY!
  • exclamation mark
  • light blue stars
  • four
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated font
  • scattered stars
  • static image
  • no animation
  • text repetition
  • bold text
  • star shapes
  • corner rectangle
  • uniform
  • text alignment
  • pixel art style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090731174952870398662
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC
Archive ID
7b6ae7551c1922b9
SHA-256
7b6ae7551c1922b96420a0bd8f25d360b840efba13593e7c2c9559227a7d7c28
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:10 UTC
Run
1069
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095413

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with green 'TAY!' text repeated in a , scattered light blue stars, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,723 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,125, response 777

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Colors

  • blue
  • green
  • light blue
  • gray

Composition

  • four
  • text repetition
  • star scattering
  • corner rectangle

Dense Caption

Blue background with scattered light blue stars of varying sizes. Four rows of four green 'TAY!' text elements arranged in a grid pattern. Each 'TAY!' text is in a bold, pixelated font with an exclamation mark. Light blue stars are positioned around the text elements, some near the top-left, top-right, and bottom-right corners. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner of the image. The image has a static composition with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Blue background with green 'TAY!' text repeated in a , scattered light blue stars, and a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner

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

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Objects

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Preprocessing Notes

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  • TAY!
  • exclamation mark
  • light blue stars
  • four
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  • pixelated font
  • scattered stars
  • static image
  • no animation
  • text repetition
  • bold text
  • star shapes
  • corner rectangle
  • uniform
  • text alignment
  • pixel art style
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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
20090731174952870398662
Archive entry
20090731174952870398662.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 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

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