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Blue background with four instances of the text 'steph' in blue pixelated font, each accompanied by a small cluster of blue dots in varying positions.

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Blue background with four instances of the text 'steph' in blue pixelated font, each accompanied by a small cluster of blue dots in varying positions.

Blue background with four instances of the text 'steph' in blue pixelated font, each accompanied by a small cluster of blue dots in varying positions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • dots shift position between frames

Animation Summary

  • Dots shift position between frames.

Composition

  • four text instances
  • dot clusters

Dense Caption

Blue background with four instances of the text 'steph' in blue pixelated font. Top-left 'steph' has a small cluster of blue dots below it. Top-right 'steph' has a small cluster of blue dots to its right. Bottom-left 'steph' has a small cluster of blue dots below it. Bottom-right 'steph' has a small cluster of blue dots to its right. All text and dots are blue on a solid blue background.

Description

Blue background with four instances of the text 'steph' in blue pixelated font, each accompanied by a small cluster of blue dots in varying positions.

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

  • blue steph text dots
  • pixelated steph dots
  • four steph texts blue dots
  • steph blue dot clusters

Visible Text

  • steph

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • four 'steph' texts
  • blue pixelated font
  • small blue dot clusters
  • top-left dot cluster
  • top-right dot cluster
  • bottom-left dot cluster
  • bottom-right dot cluster

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711220851121207284499
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
281 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/81/819dc65e2cea3e604aafdf5ae19b56473a893b8fb39b1de7acc7596e6538af31.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
Archive ID
819dc65e2cea3e60
SHA-256
819dc65e2cea3e604aafdf5ae19b56473a893b8fb39b1de7acc7596e6538af31
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:58 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080988

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue background with four instances of the text 'steph' in blue pixelated font, each accompanied by a small cluster of blue dots in varying positions.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 10:15 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,520 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 674

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • dots shift position between frames (other, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • dots (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • dots shift position between frames

Animation Summary

  • Dots shift position between frames.

Colors

  • blue

Composition

  • four text instances
  • dot clusters

Dense Caption

Blue background with four instances of the text 'steph' in blue pixelated font. Top-left 'steph' has a small cluster of blue dots below it. Top-right 'steph' has a small cluster of blue dots to its right. Bottom-left 'steph' has a small cluster of blue dots below it. Bottom-right 'steph' has a small cluster of blue dots to its right. All text and dots are blue on a solid blue background.

Description

Blue background with four instances of the text 'steph' in blue pixelated font, each accompanied by a small cluster of blue dots in varying positions.

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

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue steph text dots
  • pixelated steph dots
  • four steph texts blue dots
  • steph blue dot clusters

Objects

  • dots

Style

  • pixelated
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • text
  • dots

Visible Text

  • steph

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • four 'steph' texts
  • blue pixelated font
  • small blue dot clusters
  • top-left dot cluster
  • top-right dot cluster
  • bottom-left dot cluster
  • bottom-right dot cluster
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:06 UTC
Run
53
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
200711220851121207284499
Archive entry
200711220851121207284499.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 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#200711220851121207284499.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711220851121207284499.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016