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Pixelated text and blue polka dots on a bright green background with repeated phrases.

Pixelated text and blue polka dots on a bright green background with repeated phrases. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Lat…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeated text
  • scattered polka dots

Dense Caption

Bright green background with scattered blue polka dots. Blue pixelated text reads "polka dots" at top, "rule" below it, "ashley" beneath that, "rules!" with an exclamation mark, and "thats right" at bottom. Text repeats across the image. All text is in lowercase except "rules!" which has an exclamation mark. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with blocky pixels.

Description

  • Pixelated text and blue polka dots on a bright green background with repeated phrases.

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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200901251114251960696122

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polka dots rule ashley rules
  • green background blue polka dots
  • pixelated text bright green
  • repeated text polka dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image

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

Visible Text

  • polka dots
  • rule
  • ashley
  • rules!
  • thats right

Wordwall

  • bright green background
  • blue polka dots
  • pixelated text
  • polka dots
  • rule
  • ashley
  • rules!
  • thats right
  • repeated text
  • retro digital aesthetic

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901251114251960696122
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
812 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/99/99b5e215c64463d4d586d428d9bf77ae1464b8aa07ff971a172fbef10053dfdb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC
Archive ID
99b5e215c64463d4
SHA-256
99b5e215c64463d4d586d428d9bf77ae1464b8aa07ff971a172fbef10053dfdb
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 31, 2026 at 01:26 UTC
Run
15969
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000044

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 19:01 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:14 UTC
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1135
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Overall label
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text and blue polka dots on a bright green background with repeated phrases.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 19:59 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,245 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 795

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • blue

Composition

  • repeated text
  • scattered polka dots

Dense Caption

Bright green background with scattered blue polka dots. Blue pixelated text reads "polka dots" at top, "rule" below it, "ashley" beneath that, "rules!" with an exclamation mark, and "thats right" at bottom. Text repeats across the image. All text is in lowercase except "rules!" which has an exclamation mark. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with blocky pixels.

Description

  • Pixelated text and blue polka dots on a bright green background with repeated phrases.

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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200901251114251960696122

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • green background blue polka dots
  • pixelated text bright green
  • repeated text polka dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

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  • polka dots
  • rule
  • ashley
  • rules!
  • thats right

Wordwall

  • bright green background
  • blue polka dots
  • pixelated text
  • polka dots
  • rule
  • ashley
  • rules!
  • thats right
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  • retro digital aesthetic
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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
200901251114251960696122
Archive entry
200901251114251960696122.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 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#200901251114251960696122.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901251114251960696122.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016