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Blue background with repeated cyan text and green star icons, featuring a gray rectangular overlay on the right edge.

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Blue background with repeated cyan text and green star icons, featuring a gray rectangular overlay on the right edge.

Blue background with repeated cyan text and green star icons, featuring a gray rectangular overlay on the right edge. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Source terms

Composition

  • text repeated in
  • stars scattered
  • overlay on right edge

Dense Caption

The image displays a blue background with repeated cyan text reading "looking at looking at looking at looking at" followed by "ding my breing my breing my breing my bre" and "ence in my lince in my lince in my lince in my" and "scared to discard to discard to discard to d". Green star icons are scattered throughout the text. A gray rectangular overlay covers the right edge of the image. The text and stars are static, with no visible animation changes. The image has a pixelated, retro digital style.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated cyan text and green star icons, featuring a gray rectangular overlay on the right edge.

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 cyan green gray text stars
  • looking at breing lince scared discard
  • repeated text pixelated style
  • gray overlay right edge

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: text repeated in rows

Uncertain Text

  • breing
  • lince

Visible Text

  • looking at
  • breing
  • lince
  • scared to discard

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • cyan text
  • green star icons
  • gray rectangular overlay
  • repeated text
  • pixelated style
  • static image
  • text reads looking at
  • text reads breing
  • text reads lince
  • text reads scared to discard

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070730050345590107968
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1012 bytes
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 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
7d70268414e0e2d5
SHA-256
7d70268414e0e2d58fa5dcb4f446efb9d5e890808edd389b20b9d7f23299b3dc
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 29, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
Run
15963
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010184

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:28 UTC
Run
107
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue background with repeated cyan text and green star icons, featuring a gray rectangular overlay on the right edge.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 16:15 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,505 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,123, response 663

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • gray rectangular overlay (object, 0.80)
  • green star icons (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • cyan
  • green
  • gray

Composition

  • text repeated in
  • stars scattered
  • overlay on right edge

Dense Caption

The image displays a blue background with repeated cyan text reading "looking at looking at looking at looking at" followed by "ding my breing my breing my breing my bre" and "ence in my lince in my lince in my lince in my" and "scared to discard to discard to discard to d". Green star icons are scattered throughout the text. A gray rectangular overlay covers the right edge of the image. The text and stars are static, with no visible animation changes. The image has a pixelated, retro digital style.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated cyan text and green star icons, featuring a gray rectangular overlay on the right edge.

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 cyan green gray text stars
  • looking at breing lince scared discard
  • repeated text pixelated style
  • gray overlay right edge

Objects

  • green star icons
  • gray rectangular overlay

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: text repeated in rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Uncertain Text

  • breing
  • lince

Visible Text

  • looking at
  • breing
  • lince
  • scared to discard

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • cyan text
  • green star icons
  • gray rectangular overlay
  • repeated text
  • pixelated style
  • static image
  • text reads looking at
  • text reads breing
  • text reads lince
  • text reads scared to discard
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:46 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)
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
20070730050345590107968
Archive entry
20070730050345590107968.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#20070730050345590107968.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070730050345590107968.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016