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Static digital image with white text on red gradient background listing names and numbers.

Static digital image with white text on red gradient background listing names and numbers. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • top-to-bottom layout

Dense Caption

White pixelated text reads 'best ppl' at top. Below: '# 1 carline', '# 2 tommy', '# 3 rachel', '# 4 HN,NB'. Background is solid dark red fading to brighter red center. Text uses fixed-width font with sharp edges and no anti-aliasing. No visible motion or animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Static digital image with white text on red gradient background listing names and numbers.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200901071223571881621442

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • best ppl carline tommy rachel HN NB
  • white text red background pixelated
  • fixed-width font list names numbers
  • HN,NB name list

Visible Text

  • best ppl
  • # 1 carline
  • # 2 tommy
  • # 3 rachel
  • # 4 HN,NB

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • red gradient background
  • best ppl header
  • # 1 carline
  • # 2 tommy
  • # 3 rachel
  • # 4 HN,NB
  • fixed-width font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901071223571881621442
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8b/8bb793b0fe081ed512deae75881a5c6419103939aae219f4f944e93de80dc27a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
Archive ID
8bb793b0fe081ed5
SHA-256
8bb793b0fe081ed512deae75881a5c6419103939aae219f4f944e93de80dc27a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:41 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083660

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Static digital image with white text on red gradient background listing names and numbers.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 17:04 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,096 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 605

Review tags

  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • fixed width font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text only (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white

Composition

  • centered text
  • top-to-bottom layout

Dense Caption

White pixelated text reads 'best ppl' at top. Below: '# 1 carline', '# 2 tommy', '# 3 rachel', '# 4 HN,NB'. Background is solid dark red fading to brighter red center. Text uses fixed-width font with sharp edges and no anti-aliasing. No visible motion or animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Static digital image with white text on red gradient background listing names and numbers.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200901071223571881621442

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • best ppl carline tommy rachel HN NB
  • white text red background pixelated
  • fixed-width font list names numbers
  • HN,NB name list

Style

  • pixelated
  • fixed-width font
  • text-only

Visible Text

  • best ppl
  • # 1 carline
  • # 2 tommy
  • # 3 rachel
  • # 4 HN,NB

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • red gradient background
  • best ppl header
  • # 1 carline
  • # 2 tommy
  • # 3 rachel
  • # 4 HN,NB
  • fixed-width 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
200901071223571881621442
Archive entry
200901071223571881621442.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 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#200901071223571881621442.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901071223571881621442.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016