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alternating cyan and yellow squares with two faint overlays shifting position across frames

alternating cyan and yellow squares with two faint overlays shifting position across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • overlays shift

Animation Summary

  • Two overlays shift position across frames while the background remains static

Composition

  • background
  • two overlays

Dense Caption

The image consists of a static background grid of alternating cyan and yellow squares. Two faint grid overlays appear: one circular grid overlay positioned in the upper-right quadrant and one square grid overlay positioned in the lower-right quadrant. Both grid overlays shift slightly in position across the animation frames. The grid overlays are composed of thin, light cyan lines. The background grid remains unchanged throughout the animation.

Description

  • alternating cyan and yellow squares with two faint overlays shifting position 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan yellow
  • overlays shift
  • circular square
  • light cyan lines
  • background
  • upper-right quadrant
  • lower-right quadrant
  • animated

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Animated grid of alternating cyan and yellow squares with two faint grid overlays shifting position across frames.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Two grid overlays shift position across frames while the background grid remains static.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid overlays shift
  • quarantined wordwall: background grid
  • quarantined wordwall: square grid overlay
  • quarantined wordwall: circular grid overlay
  • quarantined wordwall: two grid overlays
  • quarantined wordwall: cyan and yellow grid
  • quarantined actions: grid overlays shift
  • quarantined objects: grid overlays
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: two grid overlays
  • quarantined composition: background grid
  • quarantined animation: grid overlays shift
  • quarantined retrieval: animated grid
  • quarantined retrieval: background grid
  • quarantined retrieval: circular square grid
  • quarantined retrieval: grid overlays shift
  • quarantined retrieval: cyan yellow grid

Wordwall

  • cyan and yellow
  • two overlays
  • circular overlay
  • square overlay
  • light cyan lines
  • background
  • overlays shift
  • static background
  • upper-right quadrant
  • lower-right quadrant

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090825004753164310258
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a3/a36fbbea83e98ed510e0e4f7926172233cdab8aa5b245af5b26eb738f6089007.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
a36fbbea83e98ed5
SHA-256
a36fbbea83e98ed510e0e4f7926172233cdab8aa5b245af5b26eb738f6089007
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:20 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.134955

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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alternating cyan and yellow squares with two faint overlays shifting position across frames

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 17:02 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,799 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 649

Review tags

  • overlays shift (action, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • overlays (object, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • overlays shift

Animation

  • overlays shift

Animation Summary

  • Two overlays shift position across frames while the background remains static

Colors

  • cyan
  • yellow

Composition

  • background
  • two overlays

Dense Caption

The image consists of a static background grid of alternating cyan and yellow squares. Two faint grid overlays appear: one circular grid overlay positioned in the upper-right quadrant and one square grid overlay positioned in the lower-right quadrant. Both grid overlays shift slightly in position across the animation frames. The grid overlays are composed of thin, light cyan lines. The background grid remains unchanged throughout the animation.

Description

  • alternating cyan and yellow squares with two faint overlays shifting position 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan yellow
  • overlays shift
  • circular square
  • light cyan lines
  • background
  • upper-right quadrant
  • lower-right quadrant
  • animated

Objects

  • overlays

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined retrieval: animated grid
  • quarantined retrieval: background grid
  • quarantined retrieval: circular square grid
  • quarantined retrieval: grid overlays shift
  • quarantined retrieval: cyan yellow grid

Style

  • pixelated
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Wordwall

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  • two overlays
  • circular overlay
  • square overlay
  • light cyan lines
  • background
  • overlays shift
  • static background
  • upper-right quadrant
  • lower-right quadrant
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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
20090825004753164310258
Archive entry
20090825004753164310258.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#20090825004753164310258.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090825004753164310258.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016