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Blue pixelated letters B, M, X stacked vertically on green background with black horizontal bars shifting position across frames.

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Blue pixelated letters B, M, X stacked vertically on green background with black horizontal bars shifting position across frames.

Blue pixelated letters B, M, X stacked vertically on green background with black horizontal bars shifting position across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • horizontal black bar shifts position relative to vertical text stack across frames

Animation Summary

  • Horizontal black bar shifts position relative to vertical blue text stack across frames.

Composition

  • vertical text stack
  • shifting horizontal bars

Dense Caption

Green background. Blue pixelated text: top letter B, middle letter M, bottom letter X in vertical stack. Black horizontal bar appears above the stack in first frame, shifts to below the stack in second frame, and moves to left of the stack in third frame. All letters maintain consistent blue color and pixelated style across frames.

Description

  • Blue pixelated letters B, M, X stacked vertically on green background with black horizontal bars shifting position 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
  • 200903011358011863641052

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background blue text B M X
  • vertical text stack shifting horizontal bars
  • pixelated green blue black animation

Visible Text

  • B
  • M
  • X

Wordwall

  • green background
  • blue text
  • B M X stacked vertically
  • black horizontal bars

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200903011358011863641052
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
976 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ab/abaf8ee1745ca8b49430d102049a632b8b5d0f02b3c87945f09204c1ee1f8858.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
abaf8ee1745ca8b4
SHA-256
abaf8ee1745ca8b49430d102049a632b8b5d0f02b3c87945f09204c1ee1f8858
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:24 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086475

OpenAI category scores

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Blue pixelated letters B, M, X stacked vertically on green background with black horizontal bars shifting position across frames.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 01:12 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,437 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 593

Review tags

  • bar movement (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • horizontal bar (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text stack (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • bar movement

Animation

  • horizontal black bar shifts position relative to vertical text stack across frames

Animation Summary

  • Horizontal black bar shifts position relative to vertical blue text stack across frames.

Colors

  • green
  • blue
  • black

Composition

  • vertical text stack
  • shifting horizontal bars

Dense Caption

Green background. Blue pixelated text: top letter B, middle letter M, bottom letter X in vertical stack. Black horizontal bar appears above the stack in first frame, shifts to below the stack in second frame, and moves to left of the stack in third frame. All letters maintain consistent blue color and pixelated style across frames.

Description

  • Blue pixelated letters B, M, X stacked vertically on green background with black horizontal bars shifting position 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
  • 200903011358011863641052

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background blue text B M X
  • vertical text stack shifting horizontal bars
  • pixelated green blue black animation

Objects

  • horizontal bar

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text stack

Visible Text

  • B
  • M
  • X

Wordwall

  • green background
  • blue text
  • B M X stacked vertically
  • black horizontal bars
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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
200903011358011863641052
Archive entry
200903011358011863641052.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#200903011358011863641052.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200903011358011863641052.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016