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Blue pixelated text "Whistle" on red background with horizontal blue line beneath, displayed in four identical arranged vertically

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Blue pixelated text "Whistle" on red background with horizontal blue line beneath, displayed in four identical arranged vertically

Blue pixelated text "Whistle" on red background with horizontal blue line beneath, displayed in four identical arranged vertically. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four vertical
  • stacked text with line separator

Dense Caption

Four vertical panels each show the word "Whistle" rendered in blue pixelated font against a solid red background. Each panel contains two instances of the text stacked vertically, separated by a single thin horizontal blue line positioned below the lower instance of the text. The image has no visible animation or motion changes across its frames.

Description

  • Blue pixelated text "Whistle" on red background with horizontal blue line beneath, displayed in four identical arranged vertically

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710271247252004482089

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pixelated whistle text
  • red background blue line
  • stacked whistle text four

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue pixelated text "Whistle" on red background with horizontal blue line beneath, displayed in four identical panels arranged vertically.
  • quarantined wordwall: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: four vertical panels
  • quarantined retrieval: stacked whistle text four panels
  • quarantined retrieval: red background blue line panels

Visible Text

  • Whistle

Wordwall

  • blue pixelated text
  • red background
  • horizontal blue line
  • four identical
  • stacked text layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710271247252004482089
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b5/b5ebc7e69ee63e4871f113ecd4f0482c7d2f99a2e901c20d724025b1c4e3263c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
b5ebc7e69ee63e48
SHA-256
b5ebc7e69ee63e4871f113ecd4f0482c7d2f99a2e901c20d724025b1c4e3263c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.105410

OpenAI category scores

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Blue pixelated text "Whistle" on red background with horizontal blue line beneath, displayed in four identical arranged vertically

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 13:06 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,366 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 609

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • red

Composition

  • four vertical
  • stacked text with line separator

Dense Caption

Four vertical panels each show the word "Whistle" rendered in blue pixelated font against a solid red background. Each panel contains two instances of the text stacked vertically, separated by a single thin horizontal blue line positioned below the lower instance of the text. The image has no visible animation or motion changes across its frames.

Description

  • Blue pixelated text "Whistle" on red background with horizontal blue line beneath, displayed in four identical arranged vertically

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710271247252004482089

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pixelated whistle text
  • red background blue line
  • stacked whistle text four

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue pixelated text "Whistle" on red background with horizontal blue line beneath, displayed in four identical panels arranged vertically.
  • quarantined wordwall: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: four vertical panels
  • quarantined retrieval: stacked whistle text four panels
  • quarantined retrieval: red background blue line panels

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static

Visible Text

  • Whistle

Wordwall

  • blue pixelated text
  • red background
  • horizontal blue line
  • four identical
  • stacked text layout
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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
200710271247252004482089
Archive entry
200710271247252004482089.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#200710271247252004482089.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710271247252004482089.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016