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Pixelated cyan and green icons on black background with repeated text patterns, some elements shift slightly between frames.

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Pixelated cyan and green icons on black background with repeated text patterns, some elements shift slightly between frames.

Pixelated cyan and green icons on black background with repeated text patterns, some elements shift slightly between frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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Action

Style

Color

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Animation

  • shape position shifts in top leftmost, middle rightmost, bottom leftmost
  • bottom-left shape rotates 90 degrees clockwise

Animation Summary

  • Cyan shapes shift position and rotate between frames; text patterns remain static.

Composition

  • horizontal of cyan shapes above and below central
  • three- text layout
  • solid gray corner element

Dense Caption

Cyan pixel art shapes (circles, squares, triangles) arranged in horizontal rows above and below a central grid of green text. The text reads "*e-l-i-", "-z-o-b-", "-e-t-h*" across three columns. Cyan shapes shift slightly between frames: top row leftmost shape changes from rounded square to heart; middle row rightmost shape shifts position by one pixel; bottom row leftmost shape rotates 90 degrees clockwise. A solid gray rectangle occupies the lower-right corner.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan and green icons on black background with repeated text patterns, some elements shift slightly between 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200807200002151107784671

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan green pixel art
  • text-based iconography
  • *e-l-i-* -z-o-b- -e-t-h*
  • shape rotation animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: repeated grid layout
  • quarantined composition: three-column text layout
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows of cyan shapes above and below central grid
  • quarantined animation: shape position shifts in top row leftmost, middle row rightmost, bottom row leftmost

Visible Text

  • *e-l-i-
  • -z-o-b-
  • -e-t-h*

Wordwall

  • cyan and green pixels
  • *e-l-i-* text pattern
  • -z-o-b- text pattern
  • -e-t-h* text pattern
  • repeated
  • gray rectangle in corner
  • shape shifts between frames

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807200002151107784671
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/aa/aace36dddcf978bed7f18815018179844d5afc5055c7499634cd50be52d2755e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
aace36dddcf978be
SHA-256
aace36dddcf978bed7f18815018179844d5afc5055c7499634cd50be52d2755e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:24 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.128090

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cyan and green icons on black background with repeated text patterns, some elements shift slightly between frames.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 13:17 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,713 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,164, response 728

Review tags

  • bottom left shape rotates 90 degrees clockwise (action, 0.80)
  • shapes shift position (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • cyan pixel art shapes (object, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • green text characters (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based iconography (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • shapes shift position
  • bottom-left shape rotates 90 degrees clockwise

Animation

  • shape position shifts in top leftmost, middle rightmost, bottom leftmost
  • bottom-left shape rotates 90 degrees clockwise

Animation Summary

  • Cyan shapes shift position and rotate between frames; text patterns remain static.

Colors

  • cyan
  • green
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • horizontal of cyan shapes above and below central
  • three- text layout
  • solid gray corner element

Dense Caption

Cyan pixel art shapes (circles, squares, triangles) arranged in horizontal rows above and below a central grid of green text. The text reads "*e-l-i-", "-z-o-b-", "-e-t-h*" across three columns. Cyan shapes shift slightly between frames: top row leftmost shape changes from rounded square to heart; middle row rightmost shape shifts position by one pixel; bottom row leftmost shape rotates 90 degrees clockwise. A solid gray rectangle occupies the lower-right corner.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan and green icons on black background with repeated text patterns, some elements shift slightly between 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200807200002151107784671

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan green pixel art
  • text-based iconography
  • *e-l-i-* -z-o-b- -e-t-h*
  • shape rotation animation

Objects

  • cyan pixel art shapes
  • green text characters
  • gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: repeated grid layout
  • quarantined composition: three-column text layout
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows of cyan shapes above and below central grid
  • quarantined animation: shape position shifts in top row leftmost, middle row rightmost, bottom row leftmost

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • text-based iconography

Visible Text

  • *e-l-i-
  • -z-o-b-
  • -e-t-h*

Wordwall

  • cyan and green pixels
  • *e-l-i-* text pattern
  • -z-o-b- text pattern
  • -e-t-h* text pattern
  • repeated
  • gray rectangle in corner
  • shape shifts between frames
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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
200807200002151107784671
Archive entry
200807200002151107784671.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#200807200002151107784671.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807200002151107784671.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016