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Blue background with light blue circles and black text reading "wow" and "wow again" in pixelated font.

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Blue background with light blue circles and black text reading "wow" and "wow again" in pixelated font.

Blue background with light blue circles and black text reading "wow" and "wow again" in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no motion

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • repeating pattern
  • text clusters
  • circle arrangement

Dense Caption

Blue background with light blue circles and white circles of varying sizes. Black pixelated text reads "wow" and "wow again" in multiple positions. Circles include full circles and half-circles. Text appears in four distinct clusters across the image. Pixelation is consistent throughout the image. No additional objects or figures are present.

Description

  • Blue background with light blue circles and black text reading "wow" and "wow again" 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 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
  • 20070801053123883511658

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background light blue circles
  • black text wow wow again
  • pixelated font circles
  • repeating pattern text clusters

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • wow
  • wow again

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • light blue circles
  • white circles
  • black text
  • pixelated font
  • wow
  • wow again
  • full circles
  • half-circles
  • multiple clusters

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070801053123883511658
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7b/7b88c5fe3af4a0a8c534fbd0c0b72fb92db2c9b8cd6a47562440805c1870cbed.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
7b88c5fe3af4a0a8
SHA-256
7b88c5fe3af4a0a8c534fbd0c0b72fb92db2c9b8cd6a47562440805c1870cbed
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:11 UTC
Run
1072
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.070789

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue background with light blue circles and black text reading "wow" and "wow again" in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 17:09 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,854 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 808

Review tags

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  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • no motion (other, 0.80)
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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no motion

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • blue
  • light blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • repeating pattern
  • text clusters
  • circle arrangement

Dense Caption

Blue background with light blue circles and white circles of varying sizes. Black pixelated text reads "wow" and "wow again" in multiple positions. Circles include full circles and half-circles. Text appears in four distinct clusters across the image. Pixelation is consistent throughout the image. No additional objects or figures are present.

Description

  • Blue background with light blue circles and black text reading "wow" and "wow again" 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 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
  • 20070801053123883511658

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • repetitive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background light blue circles
  • black text wow wow again
  • pixelated font circles
  • repeating pattern text clusters

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • repetitive
  • text-based

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  • wow
  • wow again

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • light blue circles
  • white circles
  • black text
  • pixelated font
  • wow
  • wow again
  • full circles
  • half-circles
  • multiple clusters
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:00 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070801053123883511658
Archive entry
20070801053123883511658.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#20070801053123883511658.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070801053123883511658.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016