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Static image with repeated text "brb" on a light cyan background, partially overlaid by white rectangular shapes.

Static image with repeated text "brb" on a light cyan background, partially overlaid by white rectangular shapes. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text arranged in two of three
  • white shapes divide background into sections
  • symmetrical placement of overlays

Dense Caption

The image displays six instances of the lowercase text "brb" in black pixelated font against a solid light cyan background. Three white rectangular shapes are positioned across the top and bottom edges: one horizontal rectangle spans the top-left corner, another spans the top-right corner, and a third spans the bottom-center area. The text appears centered within each visible section of the cyan background between these white rectangles. All elements maintain fixed positions with no motion or animation observed.

Description

  • Static image with repeated text "brb" on a light cyan background, partially overlaid by white rectangular shapes.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070919095952844120357

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brb cyan background white rectangles
  • pixelated brb text repeated six times
  • light cyan background with black text
  • white overlays on cyan background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: text arranged in two rows of three

Visible Text

  • brb

Wordwall

  • light cyan background
  • black pixelated text
  • "brb" repeated six times
  • white rectangular overlays
  • text positioned in sections
  • fixed layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070919095952844120357
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
469 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/90/90f71a4812fb559da19cc05e7b8e591e83bcc9c7bc8faa9ef52f942eff0bea4b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
Archive ID
90f71a4812fb559d
SHA-256
90f71a4812fb559da19cc05e7b8e591e83bcc9c7bc8faa9ef52f942eff0bea4b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.084424

OpenAI category scores

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Static image with repeated text "brb" on a light cyan background, partially overlaid by white rectangular shapes.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 03:00 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,085 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,162, response 657

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated font (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive text (style, 0.80)
  • static layout (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • light cyan
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • text arranged in two of three
  • white shapes divide background into sections
  • symmetrical placement of overlays

Dense Caption

The image displays six instances of the lowercase text "brb" in black pixelated font against a solid light cyan background. Three white rectangular shapes are positioned across the top and bottom edges: one horizontal rectangle spans the top-left corner, another spans the top-right corner, and a third spans the bottom-center area. The text appears centered within each visible section of the cyan background between these white rectangles. All elements maintain fixed positions with no motion or animation observed.

Description

  • Static image with repeated text "brb" on a light cyan background, partially overlaid by white rectangular shapes.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070919095952844120357

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brb cyan background white rectangles
  • pixelated brb text repeated six times
  • light cyan background with black text
  • white overlays on cyan background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: text arranged in two rows of three

Style

  • pixelated font
  • static layout
  • repetitive text

Visible Text

  • brb

Wordwall

  • light cyan background
  • black pixelated text
  • "brb" repeated six times
  • white rectangular overlays
  • text positioned in sections
  • fixed 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
20070919095952844120357
Archive entry
20070919095952844120357.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 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#20070919095952844120357.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070919095952844120357.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016