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Green background with blue text reading "Life is short..." and "FRANKZ" in stylized font, scattered pink dots, and a gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

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Green background with blue text reading "Life is short..." and "FRANKZ" in stylized font, scattered pink dots, and a gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

Green background with blue text reading "Life is short..." and "FRANKZ" in stylized font, scattered pink dots, and a gray rectangle in bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM…

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Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations.

Composition

  • four
  • text centered
  • gray rectangle bottom-right

Dense Caption

Green background with scattered pink dots. Blue text reads "Life is short..." above "FRANKZ" in stylized font. "Life is short..." text appears in four identical horizontal rows. "FRANKZ" text appears in four identical horizontal rows. Gray rectangle occupies bottom-right corner. All text and dots are static. No visible animation changes across observations.

Description

Green background with blue text reading "Life is short..." and "FRANKZ" in stylized font, scattered pink dots, and a gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background pink dots blue text
  • Life is short FRANKZ
  • four gray rectangle
  • static text-based icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four rows
  • quarantined composition: four rows
  • quarantined retrieval: four rows gray rectangle

Visible Text

  • Life is short...
  • FRANKZ

Wordwall

  • green background
  • pink dots
  • blue text
  • Life is short...
  • FRANKZ
  • gray rectangle
  • static
  • four
  • stencil font
  • no animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901261705221144119360
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8b/8b819f4d85c94da93c8fee2e5443a23552e6194d555c20e0425d927fb2844e26.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC
Archive ID
8b819f4d85c94da9
SHA-256
8b819f4d85c94da93c8fee2e5443a23552e6194d555c20e0425d927fb2844e26
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 3, 2026 at 21:13 UTC
Run
1262
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.041265

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:41 UTC
Run
1127
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Enrichment records (1)
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Green background with blue text reading "Life is short..." and "FRANKZ" in stylized font, scattered pink dots, and a gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 20:12 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,125 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,127, response 576

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stencil (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations.

Colors

  • green
  • pink
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • four
  • text centered
  • gray rectangle bottom-right

Dense Caption

Green background with scattered pink dots. Blue text reads "Life is short..." above "FRANKZ" in stylized font. "Life is short..." text appears in four identical horizontal rows. "FRANKZ" text appears in four identical horizontal rows. Gray rectangle occupies bottom-right corner. All text and dots are static. No visible animation changes across observations.

Description

Green background with blue text reading "Life is short..." and "FRANKZ" in stylized font, scattered pink dots, and a gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background pink dots blue text
  • Life is short FRANKZ
  • four gray rectangle
  • static text-based icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four rows
  • quarantined composition: four rows
  • quarantined retrieval: four rows gray rectangle

Style

  • stencil
  • pixelated
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • Life is short...
  • FRANKZ

Wordwall

  • green background
  • pink dots
  • blue text
  • Life is short...
  • FRANKZ
  • gray rectangle
  • static
  • four
  • stencil font
  • no animation
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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
200901261705221144119360
Archive entry
200901261705221144119360.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 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#200901261705221144119360.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901261705221144119360.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016