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Blue background with green horizontal lines and cyan 'Scanning' text repeated across the

Blue background with green horizontal lines and cyan 'Scanning' text repeated across the. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal lines across blue background
  • text positioned at top-left, top-center, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-center, bottom-right

Dense Caption

The image shows a blue background with evenly spaced green horizontal lines. Cyan pixelated text reading "Scanning" appears in multiple positions: top-left, top-center, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-center, and bottom-right. The text is rendered in a retro digital font style typical of early computer interfaces. All instances of the word "Scanning" are identical in color and styling.

Description

  • Blue background with green horizontal lines and cyan 'Scanning' text repeated across the

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 201105112259431266141952

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue green cyan scanning
  • scanning text blue background
  • pixelated scanning retro interface
  • cyan scanning six times

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with green horizontal lines and cyan 'Scanning' text repeated across the grid.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: blue green cyan scanning grid

Visible Text

  • Scanning

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • green horizontal lines
  • cyan pixelated text
  • "Scanning" repeated six times
  • retro digital font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201105112259431266141952
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
703 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/88/88829af457ef299a25caa6a7466fab274c9fe46348eb6911e20341e1b6da391a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 UTC
Archive ID
88829af457ef299a
SHA-256
88829af457ef299a25caa6a7466fab274c9fe46348eb6911e20341e1b6da391a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:38 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.124491

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with green horizontal lines and cyan 'Scanning' text repeated across the

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 00:03 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,010 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,166, response 627

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital interface (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • green
  • cyan

Composition

  • horizontal lines across blue background
  • text positioned at top-left, top-center, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-center, bottom-right

Dense Caption

The image shows a blue background with evenly spaced green horizontal lines. Cyan pixelated text reading "Scanning" appears in multiple positions: top-left, top-center, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-center, and bottom-right. The text is rendered in a retro digital font style typical of early computer interfaces. All instances of the word "Scanning" are identical in color and styling.

Description

  • Blue background with green horizontal lines and cyan 'Scanning' text repeated across the

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 201105112259431266141952

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue green cyan scanning
  • scanning text blue background
  • pixelated scanning retro interface
  • cyan scanning six times

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with green horizontal lines and cyan 'Scanning' text repeated across the grid.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: blue green cyan scanning grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital interface

Visible Text

  • Scanning

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • green horizontal lines
  • cyan pixelated text
  • "Scanning" repeated six times
  • retro digital 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
201105112259431266141952
Archive entry
201105112259431266141952.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 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#201105112259431266141952.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201105112259431266141952.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016