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Pixelated text 'buda' with blue particle effects above, on black background with gray corner.

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Pixelated text 'buda' with blue particle effects above, on black background with gray corner.

Pixelated text 'buda' with blue particle effects above, on black background with gray corner. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • particles rise

Animation Summary

The image shows the word 'buda' in pixelated light gray font with white outline, blue particle effects rising above, on black background with gray square in bottom right corner. No visible animation changes occur between frames.

Composition

  • text centered
  • particles above text
  • gray square bottom right

Dense Caption

The image shows the word 'buda' in a pixelated, light gray font with a thin white outline. Each letter has a circular element on the left side. Blue and dark blue pixel clusters resembling particles or smoke rise above the text. The background is solid black except for a light gray square in the bottom right corner. The text and particle effects appear identical across all visible frames.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'buda' with blue particle effects above, on black background with gray corner.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text: buda
  • color: light gray
  • color: white
  • color: blue
  • color: dark blue
  • color: gray
  • color: black
  • style: pixelated
  • style: retro
  • composition: text centered
  • composition: particles above text
  • composition: gray square bottom right

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • buda pixelated text
  • blue particles black background
  • gray square corner
  • retro style text
  • light gray font white outline
  • text centered particles rising
  • blue dark blue particles
  • gray square bottom right

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • no animation detected; static image

Visible Text

  • buda

Wordwall

  • text: buda
  • font: pixelated
  • color: light gray
  • outline: white
  • particles: blue
  • background: black
  • corner: gray
  • style: retro

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811180348061720193559
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b3/b35f0bb0ff99db2f179b47ef3dbeaa3babd921c45d7f0461fa0a468a185c2292.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
b35f0bb0ff99db2f
SHA-256
b35f0bb0ff99db2f179b47ef3dbeaa3babd921c45d7f0461fa0a468a185c2292
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:28 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.103359

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.896641onnx/unsafe0.103359onnx/nsfw0.063499onnx/nsfl0.039861
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text 'buda' with blue particle effects above, on black background with gray corner.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 09:25 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,008 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 787

Review tags

  • particles rising (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • mysterious (mood, 0.80)
  • particles (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • particles rising

Animation

  • particles rise

Animation Summary

The image shows the word 'buda' in pixelated light gray font with white outline, blue particle effects rising above, on black background with gray square in bottom right corner. No visible animation changes occur between frames.

Colors

  • black
  • light gray
  • white
  • blue
  • dark blue
  • gray

Composition

  • text centered
  • particles above text
  • gray square bottom right

Dense Caption

The image shows the word 'buda' in a pixelated, light gray font with a thin white outline. Each letter has a circular element on the left side. Blue and dark blue pixel clusters resembling particles or smoke rise above the text. The background is solid black except for a light gray square in the bottom right corner. The text and particle effects appear identical across all visible frames.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'buda' with blue particle effects above, on black background with gray corner.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text: buda
  • color: light gray
  • color: white
  • color: blue
  • color: dark blue
  • color: gray
  • color: black
  • style: pixelated
  • style: retro
  • composition: text centered
  • composition: particles above text
  • composition: gray square bottom right

Mood

  • mysterious

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • buda pixelated text
  • blue particles black background
  • gray square corner
  • retro style text
  • light gray font white outline
  • text centered particles rising
  • blue dark blue particles
  • gray square bottom right

Objects

  • particles

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • no animation detected; static image

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • buda

Wordwall

  • text: buda
  • font: pixelated
  • color: light gray
  • outline: white
  • particles: blue
  • background: black
  • corner: gray
  • style: retro
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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
200811180348061720193559
Archive entry
200811180348061720193559.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#200811180348061720193559.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811180348061720193559.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016