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Green question mark icon with swirling patterns and text reading 'Question of the Day' and '900 Points'.

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Green question mark icon with swirling patterns and text reading 'Question of the Day' and '900 Points'.

Green question mark icon with swirling patterns and text reading 'Question of the Day' and '900 Points'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; static image with no motion elements.

Composition

  • centered question mark
  • text blocks on right and bottom

Dense Caption

The image displays a green question mark at center-left on white background, surrounded by fainter green swirls. To the right, bright green pixelated text reads 'Question of the Day' on black background. Below this, additional green pixelated text shows '900 Points' on black background. The icon uses high-contrast green-on-black and green-on-white color scheme with blocky digital font style.

Description

  • Green question mark icon with swirling patterns and text reading 'Question of the Day' and '900 Points'.

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
  • 200809160016321020666830

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • question mark icon
  • green question mark
  • 900 Points
  • Question of the Day
  • pixelated text icon
  • digital pixel art icon

Visible Text

  • Question of the Day
  • 900
  • Points

Wordwall

  • green question mark
  • swirling patterns
  • pixelated text
  • black background
  • white background
  • 900 Points
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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809160016321020666830
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
9ef46f0c2698b69a
SHA-256
9ef46f0c2698b69a1d6d67260765566998a2ff1058b0de9175027db452c3ad9d
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Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 19:04 UTC
Run
1295
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.000528

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July 23, 2026 at 19:17 UTC
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Green question mark icon with swirling patterns and text reading 'Question of the Day' and '900 Points'.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 00:28 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,913 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 578

Review tags

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  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
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  • question mark symbol (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; static image with no motion elements.

Colors

  • green
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • centered question mark
  • text blocks on right and bottom

Dense Caption

The image displays a green question mark at center-left on white background, surrounded by fainter green swirls. To the right, bright green pixelated text reads 'Question of the Day' on black background. Below this, additional green pixelated text shows '900 Points' on black background. The icon uses high-contrast green-on-black and green-on-white color scheme with blocky digital font style.

Description

  • Green question mark icon with swirling patterns and text reading 'Question of the Day' and '900 Points'.

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
  • 200809160016321020666830

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • green question mark
  • 900 Points
  • Question of the Day
  • pixelated text icon
  • digital pixel art icon

Style

  • digital pixel art
  • blocky font

Subjects

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Visible Text

  • Question of the Day
  • 900
  • Points

Wordwall

  • green question mark
  • swirling patterns
  • pixelated text
  • black background
  • white background
  • 900 Points
  • Question of the Day
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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
200809160016321020666830
Archive entry
200809160016321020666830.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#200809160016321020666830.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809160016321020666830.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016