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Yellow background with blue pixelated border and central starburst, four red 'GABBY' text instances.

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Yellow background with blue pixelated border and central starburst, four red 'GABBY' text instances.

Yellow background with blue pixelated border and central starburst, four red 'GABBY' text instances. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • four-corner text
  • central starburst

Dense Caption

Yellow background with blue pixelated border and central starburst. Four instances of red text 'GABBY' positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. Blue pixelated border consists of four corner elements and four mid-side elements. Central blue starburst has eight arms. All elements are static.

Description

  • Yellow background with blue pixelated border and central starburst, four red 'GABBY' text instances.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow blue red text
  • GABBY starburst
  • four GABBY text
  • pixel art starburst
  • blue border starburst
  • static pixel art
  • yellow background blue border
  • GABBY text starburst

Visible Text

  • GABBY

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • blue pixelated border
  • blue starburst
  • red text 'GABBY'
  • four 'GABBY' instances
  • corner border elements
  • mid-side border elements
  • eight-armed starburst
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070824153152733538195
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
965 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9e/9ef3edd41ba889a1151aa5dcc0134d679a90a7b7c20104f09b590ec1a096f84a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
9ef3edd41ba889a1
SHA-256
9ef3edd41ba889a1151aa5dcc0134d679a90a7b7c20104f09b590ec1a096f84a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:17 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086722

OpenAI category scores

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

Yellow background with blue pixelated border and central starburst, four red 'GABBY' text instances.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 04:47 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,027 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 663

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • red

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • four-corner text
  • central starburst

Dense Caption

Yellow background with blue pixelated border and central starburst. Four instances of red text 'GABBY' positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. Blue pixelated border consists of four corner elements and four mid-side elements. Central blue starburst has eight arms. All elements are static.

Description

  • Yellow background with blue pixelated border and central starburst, four red 'GABBY' text instances.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow blue red text
  • GABBY starburst
  • four GABBY text
  • pixel art starburst
  • blue border starburst
  • static pixel art
  • yellow background blue border
  • GABBY text starburst

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • static

Visible Text

  • GABBY

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • blue pixelated border
  • blue starburst
  • red text 'GABBY'
  • four 'GABBY' instances
  • corner border elements
  • mid-side border elements
  • eight-armed starburst
  • static image
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:54 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
20070824153152733538195
Archive entry
20070824153152733538195.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#20070824153152733538195.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070824153152733538195.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016