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Pixelated blue text on black background shows 'brook' with a white cursor icon, '10-20-08', and 'joshua' in two side-by-side frames.

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Pixelated blue text on black background shows 'brook' with a white cursor icon, '10-20-08', and 'joshua' in two side-by-side frames.

Pixelated blue text on black background shows 'brook' with a white cursor icon, '10-20-08', and 'joshua' in two side-by-side frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • cursor icon replaces 'k' in 'brook' to form 'brooke'

Animation Summary

  • The cursor icon replaces the 'k' in 'brook' to form 'brooke'

Composition

  • two side-by-side frames
  • text arranged vertically
  • cursor icon replacing a letter

Dense Caption

The image displays two side-by-side pixelated frames on a black background. Both frames contain blue text: 'brook' (with a white cursor icon replacing the 'k' in the left frame), '10-20-08', and 'joshua'. The left frame shows 'brook' with a white cursor icon replacing the 'k', while the right frame shows 'brooke' with a 'e' replacing the cursor. The text '10-20-08' appears below 'brook/brooke', and 'joshua' appears below '10-20-08'. The cursor icon is a white pixelated shape resembling a blinking text cursor. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital interfaces.

Description

  • Pixelated blue text on black background shows 'brook' with a white cursor icon, '10-20-08', and 'joshua' in two side-by-side frames.

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

  • brook cursor icon
  • brooke cursor icon
  • 10-20-08 joshua
  • blue text cursor
  • pixelated cursor icon
  • text cursor replacement
  • 10-20-08 blue text
  • joshua cursor icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: The cursor icon replaces the 'k' in 'brook' to form 'brooke' across two frames.
  • quarantined wordwall: two frames

Visible Text

  • brook
  • brooke
  • 10-20-08
  • joshua

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • cursor icon
  • 10-20-08
  • joshua
  • brook
  • brooke
  • white cursor
  • blocky font
  • text cursor
  • date format
  • lowercase letters
  • pixelated cursor

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902152140561147952412
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a1/a12071a7fafd5bfe87c99d1859cd03513de5759ee69aa6acc471ef4c815b4b33.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Archive ID
a12071a7fafd5bfe
SHA-256
a12071a7fafd5bfe87c99d1859cd03513de5759ee69aa6acc471ef4c815b4b33
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 09:25 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010179

OpenAI category scores

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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
0.243169

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.850716onnx/unsafe0.243169onnx/nsfw0.200708onnx/nsfl0.042461
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated blue text on black background shows 'brook' with a white cursor icon, '10-20-08', and 'joshua' in two side-by-side frames.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 23:15 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,577 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 860

Review tags

  • cursor icon replaces k (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • cursor icon replaces k in brook to form brooke (other, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cursor icon (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • cursor icon replaces 'k'

Animation

  • cursor icon replaces 'k' in 'brook' to form 'brooke'

Animation Summary

  • The cursor icon replaces the 'k' in 'brook' to form 'brooke'

Colors

  • blue
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • two side-by-side frames
  • text arranged vertically
  • cursor icon replacing a letter

Dense Caption

The image displays two side-by-side pixelated frames on a black background. Both frames contain blue text: 'brook' (with a white cursor icon replacing the 'k' in the left frame), '10-20-08', and 'joshua'. The left frame shows 'brook' with a white cursor icon replacing the 'k', while the right frame shows 'brooke' with a 'e' replacing the cursor. The text '10-20-08' appears below 'brook/brooke', and 'joshua' appears below '10-20-08'. The cursor icon is a white pixelated shape resembling a blinking text cursor. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital interfaces.

Description

  • Pixelated blue text on black background shows 'brook' with a white cursor icon, '10-20-08', and 'joshua' in two side-by-side frames.

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brook cursor icon
  • brooke cursor icon
  • 10-20-08 joshua
  • blue text cursor
  • pixelated cursor icon
  • text cursor replacement
  • 10-20-08 blue text
  • joshua cursor icon

Objects

  • text
  • cursor icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: The cursor icon replaces the 'k' in 'brook' to form 'brooke' across two frames.
  • quarantined wordwall: two frames

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • cursor icon

Visible Text

  • brook
  • brooke
  • 10-20-08
  • joshua

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • cursor icon
  • 10-20-08
  • joshua
  • brook
  • brooke
  • white cursor
  • blocky font
  • text cursor
  • date format
  • lowercase letters
  • pixelated cursor
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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
200902152140561147952412
Archive entry
200902152140561147952412.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 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#200902152140561147952412.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902152140561147952412.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016