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Pixelated cyan background with pink dashed borders and star motifs, four red "sydney" texts at corners.

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Pixelated cyan background with pink dashed borders and star motifs, four red "sydney" texts at corners.

Pixelated cyan background with pink dashed borders and star motifs, four red "sydney" texts at corners. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes; all elements static across observations

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • four-corner text placement
  • central star

Dense Caption

Cyan background features a grid of pink dashed lines forming a border with eight corner stars. Four instances of the word "sydney" in red pixelated text appear at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right positions. Central area contains two rows of four pink asterisk-like symbols each. All elements are static; no animation observed.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan background with pink dashed borders and star motifs, four red "sydney" texts at corners.

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
  • 20080208120223202757350

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pink red pixelated sydney star border
  • sydney text cyan background asterisk
  • retro digital sydney corner texts central stars
  • four sydney texts cyan border asterisks

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; all elements static
  • quarantined wordwall: central grid of asterisks
  • quarantined composition: central star-grid
  • quarantined retrieval: sydney text cyan background asterisk grid

Visible Text

  • sydney

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pink dashed border
  • eight corner stars
  • four red "sydney" texts
  • central of asterisks

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080208120223202757350
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
394 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9a/9a3c574c329ff55a17eb07cad1df1787b08c82c64913bc88c498024810d4a380.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC
Archive ID
9a3c574c329ff55a
SHA-256
9a3c574c329ff55a17eb07cad1df1787b08c82c64913bc88c498024810d4a380
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:15 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.131649

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated cyan background with pink dashed borders and star motifs, four red "sydney" texts at corners.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 18:30 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,068 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 574

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes; all elements static across observations

Colors

  • cyan
  • pink
  • red

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • four-corner text placement
  • central star

Dense Caption

Cyan background features a grid of pink dashed lines forming a border with eight corner stars. Four instances of the word "sydney" in red pixelated text appear at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right positions. Central area contains two rows of four pink asterisk-like symbols each. All elements are static; no animation observed.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan background with pink dashed borders and star motifs, four red "sydney" texts at corners.

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
  • 20080208120223202757350

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pink red pixelated sydney star border
  • sydney text cyan background asterisk
  • retro digital sydney corner texts central stars
  • four sydney texts cyan border asterisks

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; all elements static
  • quarantined wordwall: central grid of asterisks
  • quarantined composition: central star-grid
  • quarantined retrieval: sydney text cyan background asterisk grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • sydney

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pink dashed border
  • eight corner stars
  • four red "sydney" texts
  • central of asterisks
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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
20080208120223202757350
Archive entry
20080208120223202757350.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 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#20080208120223202757350.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080208120223202757350.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016