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Blue background with white dots, four identical text blocks reading 'gina', 'megan', 'BFFL' in black pixelated font.

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Blue background with white dots, four identical text blocks reading 'gina', 'megan', 'BFFL' in black pixelated font.

Blue background with white dots, four identical text blocks reading 'gina', 'megan', 'BFFL' in black pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Source terms

Composition

  • text blocks
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

Blue background with white dots. Four identical text blocks arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each block contains three lines of black pixelated text: 'gina' on top, 'megan' in the middle, 'BFFL' at the bottom. Text is rendered in a low-resolution, blocky font typical of early digital interfaces. No visible animation or motion changes across observations. All four instances are identical in layout and content.

Description

  • Blue background with white dots, four identical text blocks reading 'gina', 'megan', 'BFFL' in black 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gina megan BFFL
  • blue background white dots
  • pixelated text blocks
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid text

Visible Text

  • gina
  • megan
  • BFFL

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white dots
  • black pixelated text
  • gina
  • megan
  • BFFL
  • four identical blocks
  • low-resolution font
  • text blocks

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812201600551826137241
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/84/8484fe32309f083a5b9fdf48858c6a6e3ac451f64e7c559f045c27499e975c31.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
8484fe32309f083a
SHA-256
8484fe32309f083a5b9fdf48858c6a6e3ac451f64e7c559f045c27499e975c31
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:31 UTC
Run
1115
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.092816

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with white dots, four identical text blocks reading 'gina', 'megan', 'BFFL' in black pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,596 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 660

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • text blocks
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

Blue background with white dots. Four identical text blocks arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each block contains three lines of black pixelated text: 'gina' on top, 'megan' in the middle, 'BFFL' at the bottom. Text is rendered in a low-resolution, blocky font typical of early digital interfaces. No visible animation or motion changes across observations. All four instances are identical in layout and content.

Description

  • Blue background with white dots, four identical text blocks reading 'gina', 'megan', 'BFFL' in black 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gina megan BFFL
  • blue background white dots
  • pixelated text blocks
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • gina
  • megan
  • BFFL

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white dots
  • black pixelated text
  • gina
  • megan
  • BFFL
  • four identical blocks
  • low-resolution font
  • text blocks
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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
200812201600551826137241
Archive entry
200812201600551826137241.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#200812201600551826137241.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812201600551826137241.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016