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Pixelated image of colorful gum balls with white spheres and text "PoP!" on a blue sphere.

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Pixelated image of colorful gum balls with white spheres and text "PoP!" on a blue sphere.

Pixelated image of colorful gum balls with white spheres and text "PoP!" on a blue sphere. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • foreground spheres
  • colorful background
  • text on blue sphere

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows multiple colorful gum balls in shades of blue, pink, green, brown, and yellow. Two white spheres are positioned in the foreground. A blue gum ball in the upper right displays white text "PoP!" with an exclamation mark. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated image of colorful gum balls with white spheres and text "PoP!" on a blue sphere.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gum balls PoP! text
  • pixelated blue gum ball
  • white spheres gum balls
  • retro digital gum balls

Visible Text

  • PoP!

Wordwall

  • colorful gum balls
  • white spheres
  • blue gum ball
  • text PoP!
  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • foreground spheres
  • exclamation mark

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070825210507350200737
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
8aca5ada42c02c3b
SHA-256
8aca5ada42c02c3b5e7fb2d6a4875fbea58e86d88d05d41f17a7a36b9a404345
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:05 UTC
Run
1031
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073627

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of colorful gum balls with white spheres and text "PoP!" on a blue sphere.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 05:26 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,364 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 652

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
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  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • gum balls (subject, 0.80)
  • spheres (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • blue
  • pink
  • green
  • brown
  • yellow
  • white

Composition

  • foreground spheres
  • colorful background
  • text on blue sphere

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows multiple colorful gum balls in shades of blue, pink, green, brown, and yellow. Two white spheres are positioned in the foreground. A blue gum ball in the upper right displays white text "PoP!" with an exclamation mark. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated image of colorful gum balls with white spheres and text "PoP!" on a blue sphere.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gum balls PoP! text
  • pixelated blue gum ball
  • white spheres gum balls
  • retro digital gum balls

Objects

  • gum balls
  • spheres

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • gum balls
  • spheres

Visible Text

  • PoP!

Wordwall

  • colorful gum balls
  • white spheres
  • blue gum ball
  • text PoP!
  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • foreground spheres
  • exclamation mark
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:07 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070825210507350200737
Archive entry
20070825210507350200737.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#20070825210507350200737.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070825210507350200737.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016