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A static image displays five distinct text-based icons in various colors and styles against a white background.

A static image displays five distinct text-based icons in various colors and styles against a white background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-left
  • top-middle
  • top-right
  • bottom-left
  • center-bottom

Dense Caption

The image contains five separate text elements: a red vertical rectangle with a white 'I' on the top-left; a cyan blocky 'Was' on the top-middle; a green outlined 'Just' on the top-right; a blue pixelated 'Wondering' on the bottom-left; and a purple stacked arrangement of 'Got', 'A', 'Problem', 'Wh', 'That?' in the center-bottom. All text uses distinct fonts, colors, and outlines with no visible animation or background elements beyond white space.

Description

  • A static image displays five distinct text-based icons in various colors and styles against a white background.

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
  • 200902091126161652554531

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red I cyan Was green Just blue Wondering purple Got A Problem Wh That?

Visible Text

  • I
  • Was
  • Just
  • Wondering
  • Got
  • A
  • Problem
  • Wh
  • That?

Wordwall

  • red vertical rectangle
  • cyan blocky font
  • green outlined text
  • blue pixelated text
  • purple stacked text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902091126161652554531
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a5/a5b575e1fce24fe518840ba28a7fcc4942acbe40f692d0d71d91ab3e4ac97188.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC
Archive ID
a5b575e1fce24fe5
SHA-256
a5b575e1fce24fe518840ba28a7fcc4942acbe40f692d0d71d91ab3e4ac97188
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:21 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.118198

OpenAI category scores

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A static image displays five distinct text-based icons in various colors and styles against a white background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 22:14 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,446 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,164, response 642

Review tags

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  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
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  • red
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  • green
  • blue
  • purple

Composition

  • top-left
  • top-middle
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  • bottom-left
  • center-bottom

Dense Caption

The image contains five separate text elements: a red vertical rectangle with a white 'I' on the top-left; a cyan blocky 'Was' on the top-middle; a green outlined 'Just' on the top-right; a blue pixelated 'Wondering' on the bottom-left; and a purple stacked arrangement of 'Got', 'A', 'Problem', 'Wh', 'That?' in the center-bottom. All text uses distinct fonts, colors, and outlines with no visible animation or background elements beyond white space.

Description

  • A static image displays five distinct text-based icons in various colors and styles against a white background.

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
  • 200902091126161652554531

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red I cyan Was green Just blue Wondering purple Got A Problem Wh That?

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  • blocky
  • pixelated
  • outlined
  • stacked

Subjects

  • text elements

Visible Text

  • I
  • Was
  • Just
  • Wondering
  • Got
  • A
  • Problem
  • Wh
  • That?

Wordwall

  • red vertical rectangle
  • cyan blocky font
  • green outlined text
  • blue pixelated text
  • purple stacked text
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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
200902091126161652554531
Archive entry
200902091126161652554531.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 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#200902091126161652554531.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902091126161652554531.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016