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A pink background with four identical blue pixelated icons arranged in a , each featuring a stylized 'J' and '99D' text with a question mark

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A pink background with four identical blue pixelated icons arranged in a , each featuring a stylized 'J' and '99D' text with a question mark

A pink background with four identical blue pixelated icons arranged in a , each featuring a stylized 'J' and '99D' text with a question mark. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fro…

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Color

Source terms

Animation

  • top-right and bottom-left icons have a blue horizontal bar; top-left and bottom-right icons do not

Animation Summary

The top-right and bottom-left icons display a solid blue horizontal bar across their middle section, while the top-left and bottom-right icons lack this bar.

Composition

  • vertical alignment
  • identical icons

Dense Caption

Four identical blue pixelated icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid pink background. Each icon contains a stylized 'J' on the left, followed by '99D' in a blocky font, and a question mark on the right. The icons are vertically aligned in two columns. The top-right and bottom-left icons have a solid blue horizontal bar across their middle section. The top-left and bottom-right icons lack the blue bar. All icons share the same pixelated style and color scheme of blue on pink.

Description

  • A pink background with four identical blue pixelated icons arranged in a , each featuring a stylized 'J' and '99D' text with a question mark

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 pixelated icons pink background
  • 99D question mark J
  • blue bar
  • identical icons blue horizontal bar

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A pink background with four identical blue pixelated icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each featuring a stylized 'J' and '99D' text with a question mark.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid blue bar

Subjects

  • question mark

Visible Text

  • J
  • 99D
  • ?

Wordwall

  • blue pixelated icons
  • pink background
  • stylized 'J'
  • '99D' text
  • question mark
  • blue horizontal bar
  • solid pink background
  • identical icons
  • blocky font

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812011434572012253327
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/85/851d534ea10b42bb61d06d28d216078e110a6202b7365a117673a64935219048.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC
Archive ID
851d534ea10b42bb
SHA-256
851d534ea10b42bb61d06d28d216078e110a6202b7365a117673a64935219048
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:33 UTC
Run
1119
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.117952

OpenAI category scores

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A pink background with four identical blue pixelated icons arranged in a , each featuring a stylized 'J' and '99D' text with a question mark

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 11:44 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,989 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,117, response 761

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • blue horizontal bar (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • 99d text (subject, 0.80)
  • question mark (subject, 0.80)
  • stylized j (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • top-right and bottom-left icons have a blue horizontal bar; top-left and bottom-right icons do not

Animation Summary

The top-right and bottom-left icons display a solid blue horizontal bar across their middle section, while the top-left and bottom-right icons lack this bar.

Colors

  • pink
  • blue

Composition

  • vertical alignment
  • identical icons

Dense Caption

Four identical blue pixelated icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid pink background. Each icon contains a stylized 'J' on the left, followed by '99D' in a blocky font, and a question mark on the right. The icons are vertically aligned in two columns. The top-right and bottom-left icons have a solid blue horizontal bar across their middle section. The top-left and bottom-right icons lack the blue bar. All icons share the same pixelated style and color scheme of blue on pink.

Description

  • A pink background with four identical blue pixelated icons arranged in a , each featuring a stylized 'J' and '99D' text with a question mark

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 pixelated icons pink background
  • 99D question mark J
  • blue bar
  • identical icons blue horizontal bar

Objects

  • blue horizontal bar

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A pink background with four identical blue pixelated icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each featuring a stylized 'J' and '99D' text with a question mark.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid blue bar

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky

Subjects

  • stylized 'J'
  • '99D' text
  • question mark

Visible Text

  • J
  • 99D
  • ?

Wordwall

  • blue pixelated icons
  • pink background
  • stylized 'J'
  • '99D' text
  • question mark
  • blue horizontal bar
  • solid pink background
  • identical icons
  • blocky font
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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
200812011434572012253327
Archive entry
200812011434572012253327.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 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#200812011434572012253327.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812011434572012253327.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016