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Red text 'dazzle' and small red 'i' symbols appear on a black background with scattered white pixels, transitioning between two states of pixel density.

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Red text 'dazzle' and small red 'i' symbols appear on a black background with scattered white pixels, transitioning between two states of pixel density.

Red text 'dazzle' and small red 'i' symbols appear on a black background with scattered white pixels, transitioning between two states of pixel density. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM bud…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • pixel density changes across frames

Animation Summary

  • Pixel density around central text and 'i' symbols changes across frames while maintaining consistent layout.

Composition

  • central text
  • symmetrical 'i' placement
  • right-side rectangle

Dense Caption

Black background contains scattered white square pixels. Red lowercase text 'dazzle' appears in the center-left area across all frames. Small red 'i' symbols are positioned above and below the central text. Pixel density around the text varies: top row shows higher concentration of white pixels, middle rows show moderate dispersion, bottom rows show lower pixel density. A solid gray rectangle occupies the rightmost portion of the frame in all observations.

Description

Red text 'dazzle' and small red 'i' symbols appear on a black background with scattered white pixels, transitioning between two states of pixel density.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803291005381725075460

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red dazzle text black background
  • dazzle i pixelated animation
  • white square pixels gray rectangle

Objects

  • rectangle

Visible Text

  • dazzle
  • i

Wordwall

  • red lowercase 'dazzle'
  • small red 'i' symbols
  • black background
  • white square pixels
  • gray rectangle on right

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803291005381725075460
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a2/a28de4ebe3deede0aa5daea37289a9197a095f30ae26e20b308b0d0fa49daed1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
a28de4ebe3deede0
SHA-256
a28de4ebe3deede0aa5daea37289a9197a095f30ae26e20b308b0d0fa49daed1
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
0.089867

OpenAI category scores

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Red text 'dazzle' and small red 'i' symbols appear on a black background with scattered white pixels, transitioning between two states of pixel density.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 21:08 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,531 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,162, response 665

Review tags

  • pixel density variation (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • square pixels (object, 0.80)
  • pixel density changes across frames (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • i symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • pixel density variation

Animation

  • pixel density changes across frames

Animation Summary

  • Pixel density around central text and 'i' symbols changes across frames while maintaining consistent layout.

Colors

  • black
  • red
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • central text
  • symmetrical 'i' placement
  • right-side rectangle

Dense Caption

Black background contains scattered white square pixels. Red lowercase text 'dazzle' appears in the center-left area across all frames. Small red 'i' symbols are positioned above and below the central text. Pixel density around the text varies: top row shows higher concentration of white pixels, middle rows show moderate dispersion, bottom rows show lower pixel density. A solid gray rectangle occupies the rightmost portion of the frame in all observations.

Description

Red text 'dazzle' and small red 'i' symbols appear on a black background with scattered white pixels, transitioning between two states of pixel density.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803291005381725075460

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red dazzle text black background
  • dazzle i pixelated animation
  • white square pixels gray rectangle

Objects

  • square pixels
  • rectangle

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text
  • 'i' symbols

Visible Text

  • dazzle
  • i

Wordwall

  • red lowercase 'dazzle'
  • small red 'i' symbols
  • black background
  • white square pixels
  • gray rectangle on right
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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
200803291005381725075460
Archive entry
200803291005381725075460.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 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#200803291005381725075460.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803291005381725075460.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016