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Four identical blue pixelated text icons arranged in a , each surrounded by yellow pixelated border, on black background

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Four identical blue pixelated text icons arranged in a , each surrounded by yellow pixelated border, on black background

Four identical blue pixelated text icons arranged in a , each surrounded by yellow pixelated border, on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no animation detected

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered icons
  • bordered

Dense Caption

Four identical blue pixelated text icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on a black background. Each icon contains the text "Gt PLAYER 2004" in a stylized, overlapping font with blue pixels. The text is surrounded by a yellow pixelated border forming a square frame. The border has irregular, jagged edges with yellow pixels extending outward from the corners and sides. The background is solid black. The icons are identical in appearance across all four positions.

Description

  • Four identical blue pixelated text icons arranged in a , each surrounded by yellow pixelated border, on black background

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20090501124525478354352

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pixelated text icons
  • yellow border black background
  • Gt PLAYER 2004
  • retro text-based
  • pixelated border
  • identical icons
  • text-based buddy icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image
  • quarantined description: Four identical blue pixelated text icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each surrounded by yellow pixelated border, on black background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • Gt PLAYER 2004

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • yellow border
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • Gt PLAYER 2004
  • stylized font
  • jagged border
  • identical icons
  • text-based

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090501124525478354352
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b5/b5a86c2549c06fefb09612c0472be6a6201f961f8358dbdacf7cd7d140aef47a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
b5a86c2549c06fef
SHA-256
b5a86c2549c06fefb09612c0472be6a6201f961f8358dbdacf7cd7d140aef47a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:30 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083593

OpenAI category scores

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Four identical blue pixelated text icons arranged in a , each surrounded by yellow pixelated border, on black background

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 08:26 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,394 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 803

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no animation detected

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • black

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered icons
  • bordered

Dense Caption

Four identical blue pixelated text icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on a black background. Each icon contains the text "Gt PLAYER 2004" in a stylized, overlapping font with blue pixels. The text is surrounded by a yellow pixelated border forming a square frame. The border has irregular, jagged edges with yellow pixels extending outward from the corners and sides. The background is solid black. The icons are identical in appearance across all four positions.

Description

  • Four identical blue pixelated text icons arranged in a , each surrounded by yellow pixelated border, on black background

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20090501124525478354352

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • retro

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pixelated text icons
  • yellow border black background
  • Gt PLAYER 2004
  • retro text-based
  • pixelated border
  • identical icons
  • text-based buddy icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image
  • quarantined description: Four identical blue pixelated text icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each surrounded by yellow pixelated border, on black background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
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  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • Gt PLAYER 2004

Wordwall

  • blue text
  • yellow border
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • Gt PLAYER 2004
  • stylized font
  • jagged border
  • identical icons
  • text-based
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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
20090501124525478354352
Archive entry
20090501124525478354352.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#20090501124525478354352.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090501124525478354352.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016