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Black background with white dashed lines forming a , pink text 'BEXTER' in four corners, and white asterisk-like symbols at intersections and corners

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Black background with white dashed lines forming a , pink text 'BEXTER' in four corners, and white asterisk-like symbols at intersections and corners

Black background with white dashed lines forming a , pink text 'BEXTER' in four corners, and white asterisk-like symbols at intersections and corners. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; the image appears static with no motion effects or frame transitions.

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • four-corner layout
  • intersections

Dense Caption

Black background with white dashed lines forming a grid structure. Four instances of pink text 'BEXTER' appear in the corners. White asterisk-like symbols are positioned at all grid intersections and at the four corners of the image. The grid consists of horizontal and vertical dashed lines intersecting at right angles. The text 'BEXTER' is rendered in a pixelated font. The asterisk-like symbols are composed of small white squares arranged in a cross pattern. The overall composition is symmetrical with respect to both horizontal and vertical axes. The image contains no visible animation changes or motion effects.

Description

Black background with white dashed lines forming a , pink text 'BEXTER' in four corners, and white asterisk-like symbols at intersections and corners

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

  • black background pink text BEXTER white dashed lines
  • symmetrical pink text BEXTER
  • BEXTER text four corners white asterisk symbols
  • pixel art pink text BEXTER white lines

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with white dashed lines forming a grid, pink text 'BEXTER' in four corners, and white asterisk-like symbols at grid intersections and corners.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid structure
  • quarantined style: grid-based
  • quarantined composition: grid intersections
  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art grid pink text BEXTER white lines
  • quarantined retrieval: symmetrical grid pink text BEXTER

Visible Text

  • BEXTER

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white dashed lines
  • structure
  • pink text 'BEXTER'
  • four corners
  • asterisk-like symbols
  • symmetrical composition
  • pixelated font
  • white squares
  • cross pattern

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090606222417635110319
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
392 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8c/8cdab728c3fd5efb714fdb6b147d94a8274ee897c571ed62140419ba82fc2c72.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
8cdab728c3fd5efb
SHA-256
8cdab728c3fd5efb714fdb6b147d94a8274ee897c571ed62140419ba82fc2c72
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:42 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094732

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Black background with white dashed lines forming a , pink text 'BEXTER' in four corners, and white asterisk-like symbols at intersections and corners

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 11:41 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,162 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 657

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • based (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • symmetrical (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; the image appears static with no motion effects or frame transitions.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • four-corner layout
  • intersections

Dense Caption

Black background with white dashed lines forming a grid structure. Four instances of pink text 'BEXTER' appear in the corners. White asterisk-like symbols are positioned at all grid intersections and at the four corners of the image. The grid consists of horizontal and vertical dashed lines intersecting at right angles. The text 'BEXTER' is rendered in a pixelated font. The asterisk-like symbols are composed of small white squares arranged in a cross pattern. The overall composition is symmetrical with respect to both horizontal and vertical axes. The image contains no visible animation changes or motion effects.

Description

Black background with white dashed lines forming a , pink text 'BEXTER' in four corners, and white asterisk-like symbols at intersections and corners

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

  • black background pink text BEXTER white dashed lines
  • symmetrical pink text BEXTER
  • BEXTER text four corners white asterisk symbols
  • pixel art pink text BEXTER white lines

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with white dashed lines forming a grid, pink text 'BEXTER' in four corners, and white asterisk-like symbols at grid intersections and corners.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid structure
  • quarantined style: grid-based
  • quarantined composition: grid intersections
  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art grid pink text BEXTER white lines
  • quarantined retrieval: symmetrical grid pink text BEXTER

Style

  • pixel art
  • symmetrical
  • based

Visible Text

  • BEXTER

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white dashed lines
  • structure
  • pink text 'BEXTER'
  • four corners
  • asterisk-like symbols
  • symmetrical composition
  • pixelated font
  • white squares
  • cross pattern
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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
20090606222417635110319
Archive entry
20090606222417635110319.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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#20090606222417635110319.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090606222417635110319.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016