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Blue background with white pixelated text 'Kirsten' and four white square-based icons arranged in a pattern

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Blue background with white pixelated text 'Kirsten' and four white square-based icons arranged in a pattern

Blue background with white pixelated text 'Kirsten' and four white square-based icons arranged in a pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • icons rotate clockwise
  • icons shift position
  • icons change orientation

Animation Summary

  • Icons rotate clockwise and shift position across observations while text remains static.

Composition

  • four text positions
  • four icon positions
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Blue background with white pixelated text 'Kirsten' repeated four times in a grid layout. Four white square-based icons appear in the corners and center of the grid. Each icon consists of stacked squares with small dots, arranged in a vertical orientation. The icons are identical across all positions. The text 'Kirsten' is rendered in a blocky, pixelated font. The overall style is low-resolution digital art typical of early 2000s internet graphics.

Description

  • Blue background with white pixelated text 'Kirsten' and four white square-based icons arranged in a pattern

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

  • Kirsten text blue background
  • pixelated Kirsten icons
  • blue white icons
  • stacked squares dots animation
  • low-resolution digital art
  • Kirsten text repeated
  • square-based icons rotation
  • blue background white text animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with white pixelated text 'Kirsten' and four white square-based icons arranged in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: blue white grid icons

Visible Text

  • Kirsten

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text
  • Kirsten text
  • pixelated font
  • four icons
  • square-based icons
  • stacked squares
  • small dots
  • identical icons
  • low-resolution
  • digital art
  • early 2000s
  • text repeated
  • vertical orientation
  • blocky font
  • white squares
  • dots
  • repeated pattern
  • blue and white color scheme

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200905011734161692165928
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
963 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
a4fa3ae3e78cefc5
SHA-256
a4fa3ae3e78cefc50d7df14d070c1d90575784610567c226a9d84e66acc4879a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.105913

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with white pixelated text 'Kirsten' and four white square-based icons arranged in a pattern

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 08:29 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
12,529 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 781

Review tags

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  • white (color, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • squares (object, 0.80)
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  • icons shift position (other, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • digital art (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • icons (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • icons rotate clockwise
  • icons shift position
  • icons change orientation

Animation Summary

  • Icons rotate clockwise and shift position across observations while text remains static.

Colors

  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • four text positions
  • four icon positions
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Blue background with white pixelated text 'Kirsten' repeated four times in a grid layout. Four white square-based icons appear in the corners and center of the grid. Each icon consists of stacked squares with small dots, arranged in a vertical orientation. The icons are identical across all positions. The text 'Kirsten' is rendered in a blocky, pixelated font. The overall style is low-resolution digital art typical of early 2000s internet graphics.

Description

  • Blue background with white pixelated text 'Kirsten' and four white square-based icons arranged in a pattern

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

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  • stacked squares dots animation
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  • square-based icons rotation
  • blue background white text animation

Objects

  • squares
  • dots

Preprocessing Notes

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Style

  • pixelated
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  • digital art
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • text
  • icons

Visible Text

  • Kirsten

Wordwall

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  • white text
  • Kirsten text
  • pixelated font
  • four icons
  • square-based icons
  • stacked squares
  • small dots
  • identical icons
  • low-resolution
  • digital art
  • early 2000s
  • text repeated
  • vertical orientation
  • blocky font
  • white squares
  • dots
  • repeated pattern
  • blue and white color scheme
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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
200905011734161692165928
Archive entry
200905011734161692165928.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#200905011734161692165928.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200905011734161692165928.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016