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Blue background with repeating white text and light blue diamond patterns, animated to shift positions.

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Blue background with repeating white text and light blue diamond patterns, animated to shift positions.

Blue background with repeating white text and light blue diamond patterns, animated to shift positions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text fragments shift horizontally and vertically between frames
  • diamond remains static

Animation Summary

  • Text fragments shift horizontally and vertically while the diamond remains static

Composition

  • full-frame
  • text overlay

Dense Caption

The image features a bright blue background overlaid with repeated white text fragments including "steps they are", "that open", "the ads we see", "from our", and "for name". Light blue diamond-shaped lines form a grid pattern across the entire frame. The text and line positions shift slightly between frames, creating an animated effect where letters appear to move horizontally and vertically within their respective word groups.

Description

  • Blue background with repeating white text and light blue diamond patterns, animated to shift positions.

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
  • 20090411181025246578532

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white text light blue diamonds
  • repeating phrases animated text shifts
  • text fragments shifting positions
  • diamond pattern

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Text fragments shift horizontally and vertically while the diamond grid remains static.
  • quarantined wordwall: light blue diamond grid
  • quarantined actions: diamond grid remains static
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined animation: diamond grid remains static
  • quarantined retrieval: diamond grid pattern

Visible Text

  • steps they are
  • that open
  • the ads we see
  • from our
  • for name

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text fragments
  • light blue diamond
  • repeating phrases
  • text shifts position
  • horizontal movement
  • vertical movement

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090411181025246578532
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9c/9cd6f52011f4bb0f0ab5c0f03025df0402720bc6eef7bafdc3b5d898c8f2d91e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
9cd6f52011f4bb0f
SHA-256
9cd6f52011f4bb0f0ab5c0f03025df0402720bc6eef7bafdc3b5d898c8f2d91e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:16 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.128942

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with repeating white text and light blue diamond patterns, animated to shift positions.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 06:22 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,865 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 652

Review tags

  • diamond remains static (action, 0.80)
  • text shifts positions (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • hypnotic (mood, 0.80)
  • mechanical (mood, 0.80)
  • light blue diamond lines (object, 0.80)
  • repeating text fragments (object, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • text shifts positions
  • diamond remains static

Animation

  • text fragments shift horizontally and vertically between frames
  • diamond remains static

Animation Summary

  • Text fragments shift horizontally and vertically while the diamond remains static

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • light blue

Composition

  • full-frame
  • text overlay

Dense Caption

The image features a bright blue background overlaid with repeated white text fragments including "steps they are", "that open", "the ads we see", "from our", and "for name". Light blue diamond-shaped lines form a grid pattern across the entire frame. The text and line positions shift slightly between frames, creating an animated effect where letters appear to move horizontally and vertically within their respective word groups.

Description

  • Blue background with repeating white text and light blue diamond patterns, animated to shift positions.

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
  • 20090411181025246578532

Mood

  • mechanical
  • hypnotic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white text light blue diamonds
  • repeating phrases animated text shifts
  • text fragments shifting positions
  • diamond pattern

Objects

  • repeating text fragments
  • light blue diamond lines

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: light blue diamond grid
  • quarantined actions: diamond grid remains static
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined animation: diamond grid remains static
  • quarantined retrieval: diamond grid pattern

Style

  • pixelated
  • repetitive
  • animated

Visible Text

  • steps they are
  • that open
  • the ads we see
  • from our
  • for name

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text fragments
  • light blue diamond
  • repeating phrases
  • text shifts position
  • horizontal movement
  • vertical movement
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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
20090411181025246578532
Archive entry
20090411181025246578532.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#20090411181025246578532.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090411181025246578532.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016