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Pixelated cyan background with scattered blue plus signs and four instances of pink 'BORING' text in blocky font.

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Pixelated cyan background with scattered blue plus signs and four instances of pink 'BORING' text in blocky font.

Pixelated cyan background with scattered blue plus signs and four instances of pink 'BORING' text in blocky font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Animation Summary

No visible content changes across frames; static image with consistent layout of cyan background, blue plus signs, and four 'BORING' text instances in magenta blocky font.

Composition

  • four quadrant layout
  • text-center alignment within quadrants
  • scattered plus signs

Dense Caption

Cyan background features 15 distinct blue pixelated plus signs distributed across the frame. Four identical instances of the word 'BORING' appear in bright magenta, rendered in a blocky, retro digital font with visible pixelation; two are positioned top-center and bottom-left, while the other two occupy top-right and bottom-right. The text is horizontally aligned within their respective quadrants. No animation changes observed across frames.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan background with scattered blue plus signs and four instances of pink 'BORING' text in blocky font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080221154525916260001

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background blue plus signs
  • magenta blocky BORING text
  • four quadrant layout

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in provided frames

Visible Text

  • BORING

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • blue plus signs
  • 15 plus signs
  • four 'BORING' texts
  • magenta blocky font
  • pixelated text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080221154525916260001
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
582 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/89/89f839a13a1366228e21abda9e5cf2a849b32ba3bf49fa028b4e871a7b063a2d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Archive ID
89f839a13a136622
SHA-256
89f839a13a1366228e21abda9e5cf2a849b32ba3bf49fa028b4e871a7b063a2d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:40 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.116360

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cyan background with scattered blue plus signs and four instances of pink 'BORING' text in blocky font.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 01:31 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,549 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 563

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • monotonous (mood, 0.80)
  • repetitive (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

No visible content changes across frames; static image with consistent layout of cyan background, blue plus signs, and four 'BORING' text instances in magenta blocky font.

Colors

  • cyan
  • blue
  • magenta

Composition

  • four quadrant layout
  • text-center alignment within quadrants
  • scattered plus signs

Dense Caption

Cyan background features 15 distinct blue pixelated plus signs distributed across the frame. Four identical instances of the word 'BORING' appear in bright magenta, rendered in a blocky, retro digital font with visible pixelation; two are positioned top-center and bottom-left, while the other two occupy top-right and bottom-right. The text is horizontally aligned within their respective quadrants. No animation changes observed across frames.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan background with scattered blue plus signs and four instances of pink 'BORING' text in blocky font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080221154525916260001

Mood

  • monotonous
  • repetitive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background blue plus signs
  • magenta blocky BORING text
  • four quadrant layout

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in provided frames

Style

  • retro digital
  • pixel art
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • BORING

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • blue plus signs
  • 15 plus signs
  • four 'BORING' texts
  • magenta blocky font
  • pixelated text
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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
20080221154525916260001
Archive entry
20080221154525916260001.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 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#20080221154525916260001.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080221154525916260001.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016