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Static pixel art with yellow text on blue background displaying repeated phrases and partial text.

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Static pixel art with yellow text on blue background displaying repeated phrases and partial text.

Static pixel art with yellow text on blue background displaying repeated phrases and partial text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • repeated layout

Dense Caption

Static pixel art with yellow text on solid blue background. Text reads "gold and" (with a heart symbol replacing the 'o' in 'and'), "blue fever", "at Iroquoisot", "Springs", and "I.S.". The text is repeated across the image. The heart symbol is a yellow pixelated shape. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The background is a uniform solid blue. The image contains no other visual elements.

Description

  • Static pixel art with yellow text on blue background displaying repeated phrases and partial text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 20070816145819876644297
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow text blue background
  • gold and heart blue fever
  • Iroquoisot Springs I.S.
  • pixel art retro digital font

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but does not affect visual description

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Uncertain Text

  • Iroquoisot

Visible Text

  • gold and
  • blue fever
  • at Iroquoisot
  • Springs
  • I.S.

Wordwall

  • yellow text
  • blue background
  • heart symbol
  • gold and
  • blue fever
  • Iroquoisot
  • Springs
  • I.S.
  • repeated text
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070816145819876644297
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
308 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/96/961cc2aab1edde553cb679b49cd403d1a8d89ab2c8e7034faf3eb563df032de1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
961cc2aab1edde55
SHA-256
961cc2aab1edde553cb679b49cd403d1a8d89ab2c8e7034faf3eb563df032de1
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:11 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.110869

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Static pixel art with yellow text on blue background displaying repeated phrases and partial text.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 00:42 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,007 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,138, response 758

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • retro (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue

Composition

  • centered text
  • repeated layout

Dense Caption

Static pixel art with yellow text on solid blue background. Text reads "gold and" (with a heart symbol replacing the 'o' in 'and'), "blue fever", "at Iroquoisot", "Springs", and "I.S.". The text is repeated across the image. The heart symbol is a yellow pixelated shape. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The background is a uniform solid blue. The image contains no other visual elements.

Description

  • Static pixel art with yellow text on blue background displaying repeated phrases and partial text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 20070816145819876644297
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • retro

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow text blue background
  • gold and heart blue fever
  • Iroquoisot Springs I.S.
  • pixel art retro digital font

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but does not affect visual description

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • blocky font

Uncertain Text

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Visible Text

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  • blue fever
  • at Iroquoisot
  • Springs
  • I.S.

Wordwall

  • yellow text
  • blue background
  • heart symbol
  • gold and
  • blue fever
  • Iroquoisot
  • Springs
  • I.S.
  • repeated text
  • pixelated font
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:53 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070816145819876644297
Archive entry
20070816145819876644297.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#20070816145819876644297.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070816145819876644297.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016