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Red background with repeated black text 'they' and white pixelated symbols changing across frames.

Red background with repeated black text 'they' and white pixelated symbols changing across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • symbols change across frames
  • symbols shift position

Animation Summary

White pixelated symbols change position and type across frames: plus signs, X symbol, and dots shift across a red background with repeated black text 'they'.

Composition

  • three
  • repeated text
  • changing symbols

Dense Caption

Red background with repeated black text 'they' in three columns. White pixelated symbols change across frames: top row has three white plus signs, middle row has two white plus signs and one white X, bottom row has one white plus sign and scattered white dots. Symbols shift position and type across observations.

Description

  • Red background with repeated black text 'they' and white pixelated symbols changing across 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background black text they white symbols
  • they text plus signs X dots
  • changing symbols red background
  • pixelated symbols text they

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: three columns

Visible Text

  • they

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black text 'they'
  • white pixelated symbols
  • plus signs
  • X symbol
  • dots
  • three
  • repeated text
  • changing symbols

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200903312338561100306661
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
426 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a1/a1a99151048ddf5b9aeefdb8e5432af102e51a850754d755eee6e60c62ac128c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC
Archive ID
a1a99151048ddf5b
SHA-256
a1a99151048ddf5b9aeefdb8e5432af102e51a850754d755eee6e60c62ac128c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 07:02 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.099399

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.912619onnx/unsafe0.099399onnx/nsfw0.055038onnx/nsfl0.044361
Enrichment records (1)
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Red background with repeated black text 'they' and white pixelated symbols changing across frames.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 05:02 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,946 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 675

Review tags

  • symbols change (action, 0.80)
  • symbols shift position (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • white pixelated symbols (object, 0.80)
  • symbols change across frames (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • symbols change
  • symbols shift position

Animation

  • symbols change across frames
  • symbols shift position

Animation Summary

White pixelated symbols change position and type across frames: plus signs, X symbol, and dots shift across a red background with repeated black text 'they'.

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • three
  • repeated text
  • changing symbols

Dense Caption

Red background with repeated black text 'they' in three columns. White pixelated symbols change across frames: top row has three white plus signs, middle row has two white plus signs and one white X, bottom row has one white plus sign and scattered white dots. Symbols shift position and type across observations.

Description

  • Red background with repeated black text 'they' and white pixelated symbols changing across 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background black text they white symbols
  • they text plus signs X dots
  • changing symbols red background
  • pixelated symbols text they

Objects

  • white pixelated symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: three columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • they

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black text 'they'
  • white pixelated symbols
  • plus signs
  • X symbol
  • dots
  • three
  • repeated text
  • changing symbols
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TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200903312338561100306661
Archive entry
200903312338561100306661.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 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#200903312338561100306661.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200903312338561100306661.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016