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Blue background with orange circles and repeating cyan text 'grace bal grace bal' in pixelated font.

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Blue background with orange circles and repeating cyan text 'grace bal grace bal' in pixelated font.

Blue background with orange circles and repeating cyan text 'grace bal grace bal' in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal text center
  • circles scattered
  • repeating text

Dense Caption

Blue background with multiple orange circles of varying sizes. Cyan pixelated text 'grace bal grace bal' repeats horizontally across the center. Text has slight pixelation and color bleeding. Orange circles are solid, no gradients. Text is uppercase, sans-serif, with visible pixel artifacts. No other objects or figures present.

Description

  • Blue background with orange circles and repeating cyan text 'grace bal grace bal' 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grace bal cyan text
  • blue orange circles pixel art
  • repeating text blue background
  • cyan pixelated text orange circles

Visible Text

  • grace bal

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • orange circles
  • cyan text
  • pixelated font
  • repeating text
  • grace bal
  • solid circles
  • text bleeding
  • no gradients
  • uppercase letters

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2009070906095648630026
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/80/8018d17d1c60a48e8c284cdb257733bc27225a17bfcdf0c7866b51e4bd46933b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
8018d17d1c60a48e
SHA-256
8018d17d1c60a48e8c284cdb257733bc27225a17bfcdf0c7866b51e4bd46933b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:22 UTC
Run
1095
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.119631

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with orange circles and repeating cyan text 'grace bal grace bal' in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 14:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,272 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 624

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • orange circles (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • orange
  • cyan

Composition

  • horizontal text center
  • circles scattered
  • repeating text

Dense Caption

Blue background with multiple orange circles of varying sizes. Cyan pixelated text 'grace bal grace bal' repeats horizontally across the center. Text has slight pixelation and color bleeding. Orange circles are solid, no gradients. Text is uppercase, sans-serif, with visible pixel artifacts. No other objects or figures present.

Description

  • Blue background with orange circles and repeating cyan text 'grace bal grace bal' 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grace bal cyan text
  • blue orange circles pixel art
  • repeating text blue background
  • cyan pixelated text orange circles

Objects

  • orange circles

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • repeating pattern

Visible Text

  • grace bal

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • orange circles
  • cyan text
  • pixelated font
  • repeating text
  • grace bal
  • solid circles
  • text bleeding
  • no gradients
  • uppercase letters
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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
2009070906095648630026
Archive entry
2009070906095648630026.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#2009070906095648630026.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2009070906095648630026.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016