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Blue background with white text "ONLINE" and four distinct bright light effects in a

Blue background with white text "ONLINE" and four distinct bright light effects in a. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late…

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Source terms

Animation

  • light effects change intensity and position
  • top-left and bottom-left light effects alternate between circular halo with small central dot and single bright spot
  • top-right and bottom-right light effects alternate between single bright spot and circular halo with small central dot

Animation Summary

The light effects in the four positions alternate between circular halos with small central dots and single bright spots, creating a dynamic glowing pattern.

Composition

  • four light effects
  • text below each light effect

Dense Caption

Four distinct bright light effects arranged in a 2x2 grid on a blue background. Top-left light effect has a circular halo with a small central dot. Top-right light effect is a single bright spot. Bottom-left light effect has a circular halo with a small central dot. Bottom-right light effect is a single bright spot. White text "ONLINE" appears below each light effect. All light effects are pixelated and have a glowing appearance. The background is a solid blue color with a gradient effect. The light effects vary in size and intensity across the four positions.

Description

  • Blue background with white text "ONLINE" and four distinct bright light effects in a

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

  • blue background online light effects
  • online text
  • circular halo small central dot
  • glowing pixelated light effects

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with white text "ONLINE" and four distinct bright light effects in a 2x2 grid layout.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid online text

Style

  • gradient

Visible Text

  • ONLINE

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text
  • ONLINE
  • four light effects
  • circular halo
  • small central dot
  • glowing appearance
  • pixelated
  • gradient effect

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901171059371738581657
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a2/a23d80b5366c2d73afd036c4c00a4b1e42260c002bdd6c15a172f81c8491a0bf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC
Archive ID
a23d80b5366c2d73
SHA-256
a23d80b5366c2d73afd036c4c00a4b1e42260c002bdd6c15a172f81c8491a0bf
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:19 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.092629

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with white text "ONLINE" and four distinct bright light effects in a

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 18:37 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
4,939 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 754

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • light effects change intensity and position (other, 0.80)
  • glowing (style, 0.80)
  • gradient (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • light effects change intensity and position
  • top-left and bottom-left light effects alternate between circular halo with small central dot and single bright spot
  • top-right and bottom-right light effects alternate between single bright spot and circular halo with small central dot

Animation Summary

The light effects in the four positions alternate between circular halos with small central dots and single bright spots, creating a dynamic glowing pattern.

Colors

  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • four light effects
  • text below each light effect

Dense Caption

Four distinct bright light effects arranged in a 2x2 grid on a blue background. Top-left light effect has a circular halo with a small central dot. Top-right light effect is a single bright spot. Bottom-left light effect has a circular halo with a small central dot. Bottom-right light effect is a single bright spot. White text "ONLINE" appears below each light effect. All light effects are pixelated and have a glowing appearance. The background is a solid blue color with a gradient effect. The light effects vary in size and intensity across the four positions.

Description

  • Blue background with white text "ONLINE" and four distinct bright light effects in a

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

  • blue background online light effects
  • online text
  • circular halo small central dot
  • glowing pixelated light effects

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with white text "ONLINE" and four distinct bright light effects in a 2x2 grid layout.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid online text

Style

  • pixelated
  • glowing
  • gradient

Visible Text

  • ONLINE

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text
  • ONLINE
  • four light effects
  • circular halo
  • small central dot
  • glowing appearance
  • pixelated
  • gradient effect
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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
200901171059371738581657
Archive entry
200901171059371738581657.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 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#200901171059371738581657.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901171059371738581657.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016