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four identical showing blue text on a red-orange gradient background with yellow circular highlights

four identical showing blue text on a red-orange gradient background with yellow circular highlights. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations; all appear identical

Composition

  • horizontal text
  • symmetrical highlight placement

Dense Caption

Four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel features a red-orange gradient background with multiple yellow circular highlights. Blue text spans the horizontal center of each panel, reading "b's mikae's mikae" with partial characters visible at the edges. The text appears to be a pixelated, low-resolution font. The yellow highlights are positioned at the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners of each panel. The overall image has a retro digital aesthetic with limited color palette.

Description

  • four identical showing blue text on a red-orange gradient background with yellow circular highlights

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • b's mikae's mikae
  • red-orange gradient
  • yellow circular highlights
  • blue pixelated text
  • retro digital aesthetic
  • low-resolution font
  • identical

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image
  • quarantined description: A grid of four identical panels showing blue text on a red-orange gradient background with yellow circular highlights.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation changes across observations; all panels appear identical.
  • quarantined wordwall: identical panels
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: identical panels
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • b's mikae's mikae

Wordwall

  • red-orange gradient background
  • yellow circular highlights
  • blue pixelated text
  • partial text reading b's mikae's mikae
  • retro digital aesthetic
  • low-resolution font
  • multiple yellow highlights
  • identical
  • horizontal text placement

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811301608231596627990
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/88/88bacd3ac1390b302353f531143e6ede066bfac3a0a4b00c0dd5e110d4b9cb31.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
88bacd3ac1390b30
SHA-256
88bacd3ac1390b302353f531143e6ede066bfac3a0a4b00c0dd5e110d4b9cb31
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:45 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080420

OpenAI category scores

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four identical showing blue text on a red-orange gradient background with yellow circular highlights

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 11:36 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,439 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 796

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • retro (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations; all appear identical

Colors

  • red
  • orange
  • yellow
  • blue

Composition

  • horizontal text
  • symmetrical highlight placement

Dense Caption

Four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel features a red-orange gradient background with multiple yellow circular highlights. Blue text spans the horizontal center of each panel, reading "b's mikae's mikae" with partial characters visible at the edges. The text appears to be a pixelated, low-resolution font. The yellow highlights are positioned at the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners of each panel. The overall image has a retro digital aesthetic with limited color palette.

Description

  • four identical showing blue text on a red-orange gradient background with yellow circular highlights

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • retro

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • b's mikae's mikae
  • red-orange gradient
  • yellow circular highlights
  • blue pixelated text
  • retro digital aesthetic
  • low-resolution font
  • identical

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image
  • quarantined description: A grid of four identical panels showing blue text on a red-orange gradient background with yellow circular highlights.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation changes across observations; all panels appear identical.
  • quarantined wordwall: identical panels
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: identical panels
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • b's mikae's mikae

Wordwall

  • red-orange gradient background
  • yellow circular highlights
  • blue pixelated text
  • partial text reading b's mikae's mikae
  • retro digital aesthetic
  • low-resolution font
  • multiple yellow highlights
  • identical
  • horizontal text placement
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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
200811301608231596627990
Archive entry
200811301608231596627990.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#200811301608231596627990.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811301608231596627990.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016