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Blue background with white pixelated text 'Alex' repeated in a pattern, small light blue dots scattered across the field

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Blue background with white pixelated text 'Alex' repeated in a pattern, small light blue dots scattered across the field

Blue background with white pixelated text 'Alex' repeated in a pattern, small light blue dots scattered across the field. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three of four text elements each
  • small scattered dots
  • solid gray shape in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

Solid bright blue background contains 12 instances of the word 'Alex' rendered in white pixelated font. The text is arranged in three rows and four columns. Small light blue dots are distributed sparsely across the entire blue field. A solid gray rectangular shape occupies the bottom-right corner, partially obscuring the last row's rightmost column.

Description

  • Blue background with white pixelated text 'Alex' repeated in a pattern, small light blue dots scattered across the field

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white text Alex
  • pixelated Alex
  • gray rectangle blue dots
  • 12 Alex texts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with white pixelated text 'Alex' repeated in a grid pattern, small light blue dots scattered across the field.
  • quarantined wordwall: four columns
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: three rows of four text elements each
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated Alex grid

Visible Text

  • Alex

Visually Supported Entities

  • text 'Alex'

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white 'Alex' text
  • 12 instances of 'Alex'
  • pixelated font
  • light blue dots
  • gray rectangle
  • three
  • four

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081104090508357478043
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a1/a11312690b8b6ad7df38ad2e7cc055947db782fdff835cd66931d01c588799cb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
a11312690b8b6ad7
SHA-256
a11312690b8b6ad7df38ad2e7cc055947db782fdff835cd66931d01c588799cb
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 25, 2026 at 07:35 UTC
Run
1342
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000053

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:18 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089892

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with white pixelated text 'Alex' repeated in a pattern, small light blue dots scattered across the field

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 06:59 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,754 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,119, response 590

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text alex (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • light blue
  • gray

Composition

  • three of four text elements each
  • small scattered dots
  • solid gray shape in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

Solid bright blue background contains 12 instances of the word 'Alex' rendered in white pixelated font. The text is arranged in three rows and four columns. Small light blue dots are distributed sparsely across the entire blue field. A solid gray rectangular shape occupies the bottom-right corner, partially obscuring the last row's rightmost column.

Description

  • Blue background with white pixelated text 'Alex' repeated in a pattern, small light blue dots scattered across the field

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white text Alex
  • pixelated Alex
  • gray rectangle blue dots
  • 12 Alex texts

Objects

  • light blue dots
  • gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with white pixelated text 'Alex' repeated in a grid pattern, small light blue dots scattered across the field.
  • quarantined wordwall: four columns
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: three rows of four text elements each
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated Alex grid

Style

  • pixelated

Subjects

  • text 'Alex'

Visible Text

  • Alex

Visually Supported Entities

  • text 'Alex'

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white 'Alex' text
  • 12 instances of 'Alex'
  • pixelated font
  • light blue dots
  • gray rectangle
  • three
  • four
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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
20081104090508357478043
Archive entry
20081104090508357478043.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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#20081104090508357478043.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081104090508357478043.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016