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Pink background with repeated 'hi.' text and red pixelated symbols changing across frames.

Pink background with repeated 'hi.' text and red pixelated symbols changing 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

  • symbols change across frames: + → starburst → X in top ; + → dot → V in middle ; dots form circles then scatter in bottom

Animation Summary

  • Red symbols change across frames: top + → starburst → X; middle + → dot → V; bottom dots form circles then scatter

Composition

  • 'hi.' text
  • symbols change per

Dense Caption

Solid pink background. Three rows of white 'hi.' text in a grid pattern (three per row). Red pixelated symbols change: top row shows +, starburst, X; middle row shows +, dot, V; bottom row shows dots forming circles and scattered pixels. Symbols are red on pink. Text remains static.

Description

  • Pink background with repeated 'hi.' text and red pixelated symbols changing 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803081856171716778324

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background hi text red symbols
  • hi. text pink background
  • red pixelated symbols changing
  • hi text

Objects

  • X symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Red symbols change across frames: top row + → starburst → X; middle row + → dot → V; bottom row dots form circles then scatter.
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: symbols change per row
  • quarantined composition: 3x3 grid of 'hi.' text
  • quarantined animation: symbols change across frames: + → starburst → X in top row; + → dot → V in middle row; dots form circles then scatter in bottom row
  • quarantined retrieval: 3x3 grid hi text
  • quarantined retrieval: hi. text grid pink background

Visible Text

  • hi.

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white 'hi.' text
  • red pixelated symbols
  • + symbol
  • starburst symbol
  • X symbol
  • dot symbol
  • V symbol
  • circular dot pattern

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803081856171716778324
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
411 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ab/ab3fa190e356f651054bd48545b3fc5373f5f114008599c72698b92995ad6738.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Archive ID
ab3fa190e356f651
SHA-256
ab3fa190e356f651054bd48545b3fc5373f5f114008599c72698b92995ad6738
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 04:53 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000026

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:23 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.192748

OpenAI category scores

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Pink background with repeated 'hi.' text and red pixelated symbols changing across frames.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 05:38 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,176 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 691

Review tags

  • symbols change (action, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • circular dot pattern (object, 0.80)
  • dot symbol (object, 0.80)
  • starburst symbol (object, 0.80)
  • symbol (object, 0.80)
  • v symbol (object, 0.80)
  • x symbol (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • symbols change

Animation

  • symbols change across frames: + → starburst → X in top ; + → dot → V in middle ; dots form circles then scatter in bottom

Animation Summary

  • Red symbols change across frames: top + → starburst → X; middle + → dot → V; bottom dots form circles then scatter

Colors

  • pink
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • 'hi.' text
  • symbols change per

Dense Caption

Solid pink background. Three rows of white 'hi.' text in a grid pattern (three per row). Red pixelated symbols change: top row shows +, starburst, X; middle row shows +, dot, V; bottom row shows dots forming circles and scattered pixels. Symbols are red on pink. Text remains static.

Description

  • Pink background with repeated 'hi.' text and red pixelated symbols changing 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803081856171716778324

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background hi text red symbols
  • hi. text pink background
  • red pixelated symbols changing
  • hi text

Objects

  • + symbol
  • starburst symbol
  • X symbol
  • dot symbol
  • V symbol
  • circular dot pattern

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Red symbols change across frames: top row + → starburst → X; middle row + → dot → V; bottom row dots form circles then scatter.
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: symbols change per row
  • quarantined composition: 3x3 grid of 'hi.' text
  • quarantined animation: symbols change across frames: + → starburst → X in top row; + → dot → V in middle row; dots form circles then scatter in bottom row
  • quarantined retrieval: 3x3 grid hi text
  • quarantined retrieval: hi. text grid pink background

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • hi.

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • white 'hi.' text
  • red pixelated symbols
  • + symbol
  • starburst symbol
  • X symbol
  • dot symbol
  • V symbol
  • circular dot pattern
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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
200803081856171716778324
Archive entry
200803081856171716778324.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#200803081856171716778324.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803081856171716778324.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016