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A pixelated icon displays '4 8 1 for ever' with a star symbol, alternating between white and light blue backgrounds.

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A pixelated icon displays '4 8 1 for ever' with a star symbol, alternating between white and light blue backgrounds.

A pixelated icon displays '4 8 1 for ever' with a star symbol, alternating between white and light blue backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • background alternates between cyan and white
  • star color changes from white to light blue

Animation Summary

  • The icon alternates between two states: cyan background with white star and white background with light blue star.

Composition

  • vertical text alignment
  • text stacked above star

Dense Caption

The icon shows the text '4', '8', '1', 'for', 'ever' in black pixelated font. A small star appears next to 'ever'. In one state, the background is cyan and the star is white; in another state, the background is white and the star is light blue. The numbers 4, 8, 1 are vertically aligned above 'for ever', which spans two lines. The text has a blocky, low-resolution appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated icon displays '4 8 1 for ever' with a star symbol, alternating between white and light blue backgrounds.

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
  • 200709161103061687419329

Named Entities

  • 481 for ever

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 4 8 1 for ever
  • star symbol
  • cyan background
  • light blue star

Objects

  • star symbol

Subjects

  • star symbol

Visible Text

  • 4
  • 8
  • 1
  • for
  • ever

Visually Supported Entities

  • 481 for ever

Wordwall

  • 4
  • 8
  • 1
  • for
  • ever
  • star symbol
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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709161103061687419329
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a0/a02e387e60a7806f0573adab09d05db048412115755285cf248512b588c364ba.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
Archive ID
a02e387e60a7806f
SHA-256
a02e387e60a7806f0573adab09d05db048412115755285cf248512b588c364ba
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:18 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.110253

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A pixelated icon displays '4 8 1 for ever' with a star symbol, alternating between white and light blue backgrounds.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 02:38 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,418 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 703

Review tags

  • background color changes (action, 0.80)
  • star color changes (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • background alternates between cyan and white (other, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • star symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • background color changes
  • star color changes

Animation

  • background alternates between cyan and white
  • star color changes from white to light blue

Animation Summary

  • The icon alternates between two states: cyan background with white star and white background with light blue star.

Colors

  • cyan
  • white
  • light blue
  • black

Composition

  • vertical text alignment
  • text stacked above star

Dense Caption

The icon shows the text '4', '8', '1', 'for', 'ever' in black pixelated font. A small star appears next to 'ever'. In one state, the background is cyan and the star is white; in another state, the background is white and the star is light blue. The numbers 4, 8, 1 are vertically aligned above 'for ever', which spans two lines. The text has a blocky, low-resolution appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated icon displays '4 8 1 for ever' with a star symbol, alternating between white and light blue backgrounds.

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
  • 200709161103061687419329

Named Entities

  • 481 for ever

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 4 8 1 for ever
  • star symbol
  • cyan background
  • light blue star

Objects

  • star symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • text
  • star symbol

Visible Text

  • 4
  • 8
  • 1
  • for
  • ever

Visually Supported Entities

  • 481 for ever

Wordwall

  • 4
  • 8
  • 1
  • for
  • ever
  • star symbol
  • cyan background
  • white background
  • light blue star
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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
200709161103061687419329
Archive entry
200709161103061687419329.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 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#200709161103061687419329.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709161103061687419329.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016