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Blue background with green text outlined in red, displaying 'my dog ate' in the top and 'my buddy icon' in the bottom

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Blue background with green text outlined in red, displaying 'my dog ate' in the top and 'my buddy icon' in the bottom

Blue background with green text outlined in red, displaying 'my dog ate' in the top and 'my buddy icon' in the bottom. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two
  • three
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Blue background. Two rows of text. Top row: 'my' (green with red outline), 'dog' (green with red outline), 'ate' (green with red outline). Bottom row: 'my' (green with red outline), 'buddy' (green with red outline), 'icon' (green with red outline). All text uses a bold, pixelated font. No animation present.

Description

  • Blue background with green text outlined in red, displaying 'my dog ate' in the top and 'my buddy icon' in the bottom

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background green text red outline
  • my dog ate my buddy icon
  • pixelated text buddy icon
  • two text layout

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with green text outlined in red, displaying 'my dog ate' in the top row and 'my buddy icon' in the bottom row.
  • quarantined wordwall: two rows
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined composition: two rows
  • quarantined retrieval: two row text layout

Visible Text

  • my
  • dog
  • ate
  • buddy
  • icon

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • green text
  • red outline
  • pixelated font
  • two
  • my dog ate
  • my buddy icon
  • text layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081004071059658272720
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8f/8fbf05edc47c4c73d1ed7c03cad6052decc2ea92003fc92314ce3c32f9080aed.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
8fbf05edc47c4c73
SHA-256
8fbf05edc47c4c73d1ed7c03cad6052decc2ea92003fc92314ce3c32f9080aed
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:31 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091429

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with green text outlined in red, displaying 'my dog ate' in the top and 'my buddy icon' in the bottom

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:48 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,524 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,161, response 633

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • bold (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • green
  • red

Composition

  • two
  • three
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Blue background. Two rows of text. Top row: 'my' (green with red outline), 'dog' (green with red outline), 'ate' (green with red outline). Bottom row: 'my' (green with red outline), 'buddy' (green with red outline), 'icon' (green with red outline). All text uses a bold, pixelated font. No animation present.

Description

  • Blue background with green text outlined in red, displaying 'my dog ate' in the top and 'my buddy icon' in the bottom

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background green text red outline
  • my dog ate my buddy icon
  • pixelated text buddy icon
  • two text layout

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with green text outlined in red, displaying 'my dog ate' in the top row and 'my buddy icon' in the bottom row.
  • quarantined wordwall: two rows
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined composition: two rows
  • quarantined retrieval: two row text layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • bold
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • my
  • dog
  • ate
  • buddy
  • icon

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • green text
  • red outline
  • pixelated font
  • two
  • my dog ate
  • my buddy icon
  • text layout
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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
20081004071059658272720
Archive entry
20081004071059658272720.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#20081004071059658272720.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081004071059658272720.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016