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Animated icon shows a person with dark hair and light skin in a blue and gray setting, with text changing across frames.

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Animated icon shows a person with dark hair and light skin in a blue and gray setting, with text changing across frames.

Animated icon shows a person with dark hair and light skin in a blue and gray setting, with text changing across frames. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text color changes
  • heart symbol changes

Animation Summary

  • Text color changes from blue to red to pink with corresponding heart symbol changes; person and background remain static.

Composition

  • centered person
  • text above person

Dense Caption

The icon displays a person with dark hair and light skin in a blue and gray background setting. The person's pose remains consistent across frames. Text above the person changes across frames: first frame shows blue text "Bashies4ever!" with a white outline, second frame shows red text "Bashies4ever!" with a white outline and a red heart symbol, third frame shows pink text "Bashies4ever!" with a white outline and a pink heart symbol. The text color and heart symbol change while the person's appearance and background remain static.

Description

  • Animated icon shows a person with dark hair and light skin in a blue and gray setting, with text 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
  • 200905220933321227609433

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark hair light skin
  • text changes blue red pink
  • heart symbol text
  • buddy icon animation
  • pixelated text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • text appears to be in a pixelated font

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Visible Text

  • Bashies4ever!

Wordwall

  • person with dark hair
  • light skin
  • blue and gray background
  • text changes
  • blue text frame
  • red text frame
  • pink text frame
  • heart symbol

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200905220933321227609433
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b2/b2691352e81b194430d954ad265b36c81f6f408992ca4d7bb4611cb95760d734.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC
Archive ID
b2691352e81b1944
SHA-256
b2691352e81b194430d954ad265b36c81f6f408992ca4d7bb4611cb95760d734
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 10:32 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010359

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:33 UTC
Run
1139
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.241875

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.241875falseviolence0.016256falseself-harm0.000511falseself-harm/intent0.000218falseviolence/graphic0.000058falseself-harm/instructions0.000005falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:28 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
nsfw
Overall score
1.000000

OpenAI category scores

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Animated icon shows a person with dark hair and light skin in a blue and gray setting, with text changing across frames.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 10:24 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,511 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 835

Review tags

  • text changes (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light skin (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text changes

Animation

  • text color changes
  • heart symbol changes

Animation Summary

  • Text color changes from blue to red to pink with corresponding heart symbol changes; person and background remain static.

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • pink
  • white
  • gray
  • light skin

Composition

  • centered person
  • text above person

Dense Caption

The icon displays a person with dark hair and light skin in a blue and gray background setting. The person's pose remains consistent across frames. Text above the person changes across frames: first frame shows blue text "Bashies4ever!" with a white outline, second frame shows red text "Bashies4ever!" with a white outline and a red heart symbol, third frame shows pink text "Bashies4ever!" with a white outline and a pink heart symbol. The text color and heart symbol change while the person's appearance and background remain static.

Description

  • Animated icon shows a person with dark hair and light skin in a blue and gray setting, with text 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
  • 200905220933321227609433

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person dark hair light skin
  • text changes blue red pink
  • heart symbol text
  • buddy icon animation
  • pixelated text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • text appears to be in a pixelated font

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • animated

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • Bashies4ever!

Wordwall

  • person with dark hair
  • light skin
  • blue and gray background
  • text changes
  • blue text frame
  • red text frame
  • pink text frame
  • heart symbol
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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
200905220933321227609433
Archive entry
200905220933321227609433.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 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#200905220933321227609433.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200905220933321227609433.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016