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Blue background with repeating white bubble shapes and yellow 'bubble' text in four locations.

Blue background with repeating white bubble shapes and yellow 'bubble' text in four locations. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeating elements
  • text placement

Dense Caption

Blue background filled with repeating white bubble shapes arranged in a grid pattern. Four instances of yellow text reading 'bubble' appear in the image: top-left, top-right, middle-left, and middle-right. The bubble shapes are stylized with rounded tops and flat bottoms, rendered in light blue and white. The text 'bubble' is displayed in a pixelated font with yellow color. The overall composition is a static pattern with no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Blue background with repeating white bubble shapes and yellow 'bubble' text in four locations.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue bubble background
  • yellow bubble text
  • repeating bubble pattern
  • pixelated bubble icon
  • four bubble texts
  • static bubble design
  • blue white yellow bubbles
  • bubble pattern

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: bubble grid pattern

Visible Text

  • bubble

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • repeating white bubble shapes
  • yellow 'bubble' text
  • four text instances
  • pixelated font
  • pattern
  • light blue and white bubbles
  • static pattern

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080802201320586203548
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/98/989d1f0201db04f6ed6b3d750b1ff5c3d6e149702d0bd23022f15f45d42c8132.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC
Archive ID
989d1f0201db04f6
SHA-256
989d1f0201db04f6ed6b3d750b1ff5c3d6e149702d0bd23022f15f45d42c8132
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:46 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.100819

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with repeating white bubble shapes and yellow 'bubble' text in four locations.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,398 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 665

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • bubble shapes (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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  • static (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • yellow

Composition

  • repeating elements
  • text placement

Dense Caption

Blue background filled with repeating white bubble shapes arranged in a grid pattern. Four instances of yellow text reading 'bubble' appear in the image: top-left, top-right, middle-left, and middle-right. The bubble shapes are stylized with rounded tops and flat bottoms, rendered in light blue and white. The text 'bubble' is displayed in a pixelated font with yellow color. The overall composition is a static pattern with no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Blue background with repeating white bubble shapes and yellow 'bubble' text in four locations.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue bubble background
  • yellow bubble text
  • repeating bubble pattern
  • pixelated bubble icon
  • four bubble texts
  • static bubble design
  • blue white yellow bubbles
  • bubble pattern

Objects

  • bubble shapes
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: bubble grid pattern

Style

  • pixelated
  • repeating pattern
  • static

Visible Text

  • bubble

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • repeating white bubble shapes
  • yellow 'bubble' text
  • four text instances
  • pixelated font
  • pattern
  • light blue and white bubbles
  • static pattern
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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
20080802201320586203548
Archive entry
20080802201320586203548.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 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#20080802201320586203548.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080802201320586203548.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016