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A static image with a blue background, white text, and a circular object on the left.

A static image with a blue background, white text, and a circular object on the left. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split left-right
  • left: circular object on brownish-yellow background
  • right: solid blue with text lines

Dense Caption

The image is split into two sections. On the left side, there's a circular white object resembling a volleyball or ball with visible seams against a brownish-yellow background. The right section has a solid blue background with pixelated white text arranged in multiple lines: 'w-o-l', 'v-e-r-i', 'nnnnnn-e-s', 'oh yes.', 'oh yes.', 'cuz we are the best, The Best!'.

Description

  • A static image with a blue background, white text, and a circular object on the left.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071007111843831336009

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white text volleyball ball
  • w-o-l v-e-r-i nnnnnn-e-s oh yes the best
  • pixelated text blue background brownish-yellow object
  • cuz we are the best The Best!

Visible Text

  • w-o-l
  • v-e-r-i
  • nnnnnn-e-s
  • oh yes.
  • cuz we are the best,
  • The Best!

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text
  • circular object
  • seams on ball
  • brownish-yellow background
  • pixelated font
  • text lines: w-o-l v-e-r-i nnnnnn-e-s oh yes. oh yes. cuz we are the best, The Best!

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071007111843831336009
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/90/90e09079e6ab03f5e4501be41a7cd1ca5481e80872c051a8431d043e1b5d4be2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC
Archive ID
90e09079e6ab03f5
SHA-256
90e09079e6ab03f5e4501be41a7cd1ca5481e80872c051a8431d043e1b5d4be2
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:09 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094301

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A static image with a blue background, white text, and a circular object on the left.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 08:04 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,791 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 707

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brownish yellow (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • confident (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text heavy (style, 0.80)
  • ball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • brownish-yellow

Composition

  • split left-right
  • left: circular object on brownish-yellow background
  • right: solid blue with text lines

Dense Caption

The image is split into two sections. On the left side, there's a circular white object resembling a volleyball or ball with visible seams against a brownish-yellow background. The right section has a solid blue background with pixelated white text arranged in multiple lines: 'w-o-l', 'v-e-r-i', 'nnnnnn-e-s', 'oh yes.', 'oh yes.', 'cuz we are the best, The Best!'.

Description

  • A static image with a blue background, white text, and a circular object on the left.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071007111843831336009

Mood

  • playful
  • confident

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white text volleyball ball
  • w-o-l v-e-r-i nnnnnn-e-s oh yes the best
  • pixelated text blue background brownish-yellow object
  • cuz we are the best The Best!

Objects

  • ball

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-heavy

Subjects

  • ball

Visible Text

  • w-o-l
  • v-e-r-i
  • nnnnnn-e-s
  • oh yes.
  • cuz we are the best,
  • The Best!

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text
  • circular object
  • seams on ball
  • brownish-yellow background
  • pixelated font
  • text lines: w-o-l v-e-r-i nnnnnn-e-s oh yes. oh yes. cuz we are the best, The Best!
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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
20071007111843831336009
Archive entry
20071007111843831336009.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 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#20071007111843831336009.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071007111843831336009.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016