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Pixelated yellow text and symbols on four colored backgrounds with subtle animation changes.

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Pixelated yellow text and symbols on four colored backgrounds with subtle animation changes.

Pixelated yellow text and symbols on four colored backgrounds with subtle animation changes. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • subtle brightness changes between frames

Animation Summary

  • Subtle brightness variations across four quadrants with identical text patterns.

Composition

  • 4 quadrants
  • per quadrant
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Four 5x5 pixel grids display identical patterns of yellow 'Y-X' symbols, hyphens, and letters (L, M, F, A, O) against distinct solid backgrounds: top-left pink, top-right light blue, bottom-left cyan, bottom-right pale purple. Each grid shows slight variations in symbol brightness across frames; the left-side grids have more saturated yellow pixels while right-side grids appear slightly faded. All symbols maintain consistent spacing and alignment within their respective 5x5 matrices.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow text and symbols on four colored backgrounds with subtle animation changes.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200801030932551450009778

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow symbols on pink background
  • text animation
  • 4 color backgrounds
  • pixel art letter sequences

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: pixel grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid-based
  • quarantined composition: 5x5 grid per quadrant
  • quarantined retrieval: text grid animation

Visible Text

  • Y-L-Y
  • Y-M-Y
  • Y-F-Y
  • Y-A-Y
  • Y-O-Y

Wordwall

  • yellow 'Y-X' symbols
  • hyphenated letter sequences
  • solid background colors
  • pixel
  • subtle brightness variations

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801030932551450009778
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/90/9022966b22d80858c484747140a248d1f531a740b43a9f937d4f87574a4abd1b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC
Archive ID
9022966b22d80858
SHA-256
9022966b22d80858c484747140a248d1f531a740b43a9f937d4f87574a4abd1b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:28 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.109913

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated yellow text and symbols on four colored backgrounds with subtle animation changes.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 07:14 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,960 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,117, response 677

Review tags

  • brightness variation (action, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pale purple (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • backgrounds (object, 0.80)
  • based (style, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text symbols (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • brightness variation

Animation

  • subtle brightness changes between frames

Animation Summary

  • Subtle brightness variations across four quadrants with identical text patterns.

Colors

  • pink
  • light blue
  • cyan
  • pale purple
  • yellow

Composition

  • 4 quadrants
  • per quadrant
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Four 5x5 pixel grids display identical patterns of yellow 'Y-X' symbols, hyphens, and letters (L, M, F, A, O) against distinct solid backgrounds: top-left pink, top-right light blue, bottom-left cyan, bottom-right pale purple. Each grid shows slight variations in symbol brightness across frames; the left-side grids have more saturated yellow pixels while right-side grids appear slightly faded. All symbols maintain consistent spacing and alignment within their respective 5x5 matrices.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow text and symbols on four colored backgrounds with subtle animation changes.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200801030932551450009778

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow symbols on pink background
  • text animation
  • 4 color backgrounds
  • pixel art letter sequences

Objects

  • backgrounds

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined style: grid-based
  • quarantined composition: 5x5 grid per quadrant
  • quarantined retrieval: text grid animation

Style

  • pixel art
  • minimalist
  • based

Subjects

  • text symbols

Visible Text

  • Y-L-Y
  • Y-M-Y
  • Y-F-Y
  • Y-A-Y
  • Y-O-Y

Wordwall

  • yellow 'Y-X' symbols
  • hyphenated letter sequences
  • solid background colors
  • pixel
  • subtle brightness variations
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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
200801030932551450009778
Archive entry
200801030932551450009778.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 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#200801030932551450009778.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801030932551450009778.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016