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Yellow background with blue horizontal bars and white pixelated shapes resembling letters F and L in various positions.

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Yellow background with blue horizontal bars and white pixelated shapes resembling letters F and L in various positions.

Yellow background with blue horizontal bars and white pixelated shapes resembling letters F and L in various positions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fra…

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Color

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Animation

  • white pixelated shapes shift positions
  • blue horizontal bars remain static

Animation Summary

  • White pixelated shapes shift positions while blue horizontal bars remain static.

Composition

  • yellow background
  • blue horizontal bars
  • white pixelated shapes

Dense Caption

Yellow background with blue horizontal bars and white pixelated shapes resembling letters F and L in various positions. The blue bars are solid, horizontal, and positioned at different vertical levels. White pixelated shapes include two F-like forms and two L-like forms, each appearing in distinct locations across the frame. The shapes are composed of small square pixels, consistent with low-resolution digital art. No other objects or text are visible.

Description

  • Yellow background with blue horizontal bars and white pixelated shapes resembling letters F and L in various 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow background blue bars white pixelated shapes
  • blue horizontal bars white pixelated F L shapes
  • low-resolution pixel art yellow blue white
  • white pixelated shapes shift positions

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • blue horizontal bars
  • white pixelated F shapes
  • white pixelated L shapes
  • solid blue bars
  • small square pixels
  • distinct positions
  • low-resolution digital art

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2007090320472581549298
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
417 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a1/a1143333b92e002aafe570d91434cf1932252bc4dd75c73a6d31ac803e53560d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
a1143333b92e002a
SHA-256
a1143333b92e002aafe570d91434cf1932252bc4dd75c73a6d31ac803e53560d
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 29, 2026 at 22:08 UTC
Run
15966
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image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000061

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Assessed
August 12, 2026 at 03:04 UTC
Run
1284
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:18 UTC
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Yellow background with blue horizontal bars and white pixelated shapes resembling letters F and L in various positions.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 09:49 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,683 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 672

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • blue horizontal bars (object, 0.80)
  • white pixelated shapes (object, 0.80)
  • blue horizontal bars remain static (other, 0.80)
  • white pixelated shapes shift positions (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • white pixelated shapes shift positions
  • blue horizontal bars remain static

Animation Summary

  • White pixelated shapes shift positions while blue horizontal bars remain static.

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • yellow background
  • blue horizontal bars
  • white pixelated shapes

Dense Caption

Yellow background with blue horizontal bars and white pixelated shapes resembling letters F and L in various positions. The blue bars are solid, horizontal, and positioned at different vertical levels. White pixelated shapes include two F-like forms and two L-like forms, each appearing in distinct locations across the frame. The shapes are composed of small square pixels, consistent with low-resolution digital art. No other objects or text are visible.

Description

  • Yellow background with blue horizontal bars and white pixelated shapes resembling letters F and L in various 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow background blue bars white pixelated shapes
  • blue horizontal bars white pixelated F L shapes
  • low-resolution pixel art yellow blue white
  • white pixelated shapes shift positions

Objects

  • blue horizontal bars
  • white pixelated shapes

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • minimalist

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • blue horizontal bars
  • white pixelated F shapes
  • white pixelated L shapes
  • solid blue bars
  • small square pixels
  • distinct positions
  • low-resolution digital art
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 14:07 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
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Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
2007090320472581549298
Archive entry
2007090320472581549298.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#2007090320472581549298.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2007090320472581549298.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016