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Blue background with repeated white text 'sam!<33' and ':]' below, scattered yellow and blue stars, gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

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Blue background with repeated white text 'sam!<33' and ':]' below, scattered yellow and blue stars, gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

Blue background with repeated white text 'sam!<33' and ':]' below, scattered yellow and blue stars, gray rectangle in bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • yellow stars move between frames

Animation Summary

  • Yellow stars shift positions across frames while blue stars and text remain static.

Composition

  • arrangement
  • scattered stars
  • gray rectangle bottom-right

Dense Caption

Blue background with repeated white text 'sam!<33' and ':]' below, scattered yellow and blue stars, gray rectangle in bottom-right corner. Yellow stars appear in different positions across frames, blue stars remain static. Text 'sam!<33' and ':]' are consistently white and positioned in a grid-like arrangement. Gray rectangle occupies bottom-right corner. Stars are small, five-pointed shapes. Text uses a pixelated font. No other objects or subjects visible.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated white text 'sam!<33' and ':]' below, scattered yellow and blue stars, gray rectangle in bottom-right 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200904211207331657222631
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sam!<33 yellow stars blue background
  • blue background sam!<33 gray rectangle
  • yellow stars blue stars sam!<33
  • sam!<33 :]
  • blue background :]
  • gray rectangle yellow stars
  • pixelated text blue background
  • repetitive text yellow stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined composition: grid arrangement

Visible Text

  • sam!<33
  • :]

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text
  • sam!<33
  • :]
  • yellow stars
  • blue stars
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated font
  • arrangement
  • scattered stars

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200904211207331657222631
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b4/b47ab8ab5e77ba51c971287a6f1eba8d48a83540b2319b68c5e81120406936fa.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
b47ab8ab5e77ba51
SHA-256
b47ab8ab5e77ba51c971287a6f1eba8d48a83540b2319b68c5e81120406936fa
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:29 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.117795

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with repeated white text 'sam!<33' and ':]' below, scattered yellow and blue stars, gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 07:29 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,046 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,124, response 764

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blue stars (object, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • yellow stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • yellow stars move between frames

Animation Summary

  • Yellow stars shift positions across frames while blue stars and text remain static.

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • yellow
  • gray

Composition

  • arrangement
  • scattered stars
  • gray rectangle bottom-right

Dense Caption

Blue background with repeated white text 'sam!<33' and ':]' below, scattered yellow and blue stars, gray rectangle in bottom-right corner. Yellow stars appear in different positions across frames, blue stars remain static. Text 'sam!<33' and ':]' are consistently white and positioned in a grid-like arrangement. Gray rectangle occupies bottom-right corner. Stars are small, five-pointed shapes. Text uses a pixelated font. No other objects or subjects visible.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated white text 'sam!<33' and ':]' below, scattered yellow and blue stars, gray rectangle in bottom-right 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200904211207331657222631
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sam!<33 yellow stars blue background
  • blue background sam!<33 gray rectangle
  • yellow stars blue stars sam!<33
  • sam!<33 :]
  • blue background :]
  • gray rectangle yellow stars
  • pixelated text blue background
  • repetitive text yellow stars

Objects

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  • blue stars
  • gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined composition: grid arrangement

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • repetitive

Visible Text

  • sam!<33
  • :]

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text
  • sam!<33
  • :]
  • yellow stars
  • blue stars
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated font
  • arrangement
  • scattered stars
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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
200904211207331657222631
Archive entry
200904211207331657222631.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#200904211207331657222631.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904211207331657222631.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016