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A static image with a polka-dot pattern on the left and a green text element on the right.

A static image with a polka-dot pattern on the left and a green text element on the right. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split left-right
  • repeating pattern
  • text on solid background

Dense Caption

The image is split into two sections. The left section features a repeating pattern of large, overlapping circles in pink, light pink, green, and red on a white background. The right section has a white background with the word "*bling*" in green, pixelated text with a black outline. The text is centered horizontally and positioned slightly above the vertical center of the right section. The right section also includes a gray area below the text.

Description

  • A static image with a polka-dot pattern on the left and a green text element on the right.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • 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
  • 200907091046041035403155

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polka-dot pink green red circles
  • bling green text
  • split white gray background
  • pixelated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image

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

Visible Text

  • *bling*

Wordwall

  • polka-dot pattern
  • pink circles
  • green circles
  • red circles
  • light pink circles
  • white background
  • green text
  • *bling*
  • black outline
  • gray area

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200907091046041035403155
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8c/8c06eba8e2d9f6ab86ecff7b96cb645ee455cc87607f31d1c4e0c350e1a3534b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
8c06eba8e2d9f6ab
SHA-256
8c06eba8e2d9f6ab86ecff7b96cb645ee455cc87607f31d1c4e0c350e1a3534b
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
0.100860

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A static image with a polka-dot pattern on the left and a green text element on the right.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 14:20 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,806 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 792

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light pink (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • light pink
  • green
  • red
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • split left-right
  • repeating pattern
  • text on solid background

Dense Caption

The image is split into two sections. The left section features a repeating pattern of large, overlapping circles in pink, light pink, green, and red on a white background. The right section has a white background with the word "*bling*" in green, pixelated text with a black outline. The text is centered horizontally and positioned slightly above the vertical center of the right section. The right section also includes a gray area below the text.

Description

  • A static image with a polka-dot pattern on the left and a green text element on the right.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • 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
  • 200907091046041035403155

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polka-dot pink green red circles
  • bling green text
  • split white gray background
  • pixelated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoonish

Visible Text

  • *bling*

Wordwall

  • polka-dot pattern
  • pink circles
  • green circles
  • red circles
  • light pink circles
  • white background
  • green text
  • *bling*
  • black outline
  • gray area
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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
200907091046041035403155
Archive entry
200907091046041035403155.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#200907091046041035403155.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200907091046041035403155.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016