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Four distinct text-based icons displayed in a on a dark background with one gray

Four distinct text-based icons displayed in a on a dark background with one gray. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-200…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-section
  • text in top-left, top-right, bottom-left
  • solid bottom-right

Dense Caption

The image shows a grid of four sections. Top-left section contains white text "STD" on a dark background with a subtle green outline. Top-right section contains white text "MBK" on a dark background with a subtle green outline. Bottom-left section contains white text "UNION" on a dark background with a subtle green outline. Bottom-right section is a solid light gray panel. All text uses a bold, pixelated font. The background is uniformly dark except for the gray panel. The text appears to have a slight glow effect.

Description

  • Four distinct text-based icons displayed in a on a dark background with one gray

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

  • STD MBK UNION text icons
  • text icons
  • white pixelated text dark background
  • gray text icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four distinct text-based icons displayed in a grid layout on a dark background with one gray panel.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: solid gray panel bottom-right
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: solid panel bottom-right
  • quarantined composition: four-section grid
  • quarantined retrieval: gray panel text icons
  • quarantined retrieval: text icons grid layout

Visible Text

  • STD
  • MBK
  • UNION

Wordwall

  • text "STD" top-left
  • text "MBK" top-right
  • text "UNION" bottom-left
  • solid gray bottom-right
  • dark background
  • white pixelated text
  • subtle green outline

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200911060608101005393958
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a8/a8b7b1c5b07739dcc8ddd04e9e4ec5b4ef2b1a161e2b62232db08afc75012aff.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
a8b7b1c5b07739dc
SHA-256
a8b7b1c5b07739dcc8ddd04e9e4ec5b4ef2b1a161e2b62232db08afc75012aff
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:23 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.103196

OpenAI category scores

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Four distinct text-based icons displayed in a on a dark background with one gray

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 19:49 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
4,704 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 669

Review tags

  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • dark
  • green
  • gray

Composition

  • four-section
  • text in top-left, top-right, bottom-left
  • solid bottom-right

Dense Caption

The image shows a grid of four sections. Top-left section contains white text "STD" on a dark background with a subtle green outline. Top-right section contains white text "MBK" on a dark background with a subtle green outline. Bottom-left section contains white text "UNION" on a dark background with a subtle green outline. Bottom-right section is a solid light gray panel. All text uses a bold, pixelated font. The background is uniformly dark except for the gray panel. The text appears to have a slight glow effect.

Description

  • Four distinct text-based icons displayed in a on a dark background with one gray

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

  • STD MBK UNION text icons
  • text icons
  • white pixelated text dark background
  • gray text icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four distinct text-based icons displayed in a grid layout on a dark background with one gray panel.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: solid gray panel bottom-right
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: solid panel bottom-right
  • quarantined composition: four-section grid
  • quarantined retrieval: gray panel text icons
  • quarantined retrieval: text icons grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • STD
  • MBK
  • UNION

Wordwall

  • text "STD" top-left
  • text "MBK" top-right
  • text "UNION" bottom-left
  • solid gray bottom-right
  • dark background
  • white pixelated text
  • subtle green outline
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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
200911060608101005393958
Archive entry
200911060608101005393958.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#200911060608101005393958.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200911060608101005393958.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016