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Pixelated teal dots on black background with repeated 'polka dots! polka dots!' text in white pixel font.

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Pixelated teal dots on black background with repeated 'polka dots! polka dots!' text in white pixel font.

Pixelated teal dots on black background with repeated 'polka dots! polka dots!' text in white pixel font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Share…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeating pattern
  • horizontal text bands
  • overlapping shapes

Dense Caption

Black background filled with multiple overlapping teal and cyan circular shapes of varying sizes. Two horizontal bands of white pixelated text reading "polka dots! polka dots!" appear across the image, one near the top and one near the bottom. Some circles are solid while others have partial segments missing or split into halves. The visual style is low-resolution digital art with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated teal dots on black background with repeated 'polka dots! polka dots!' text in white pixel font.

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 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
  • 200710140511261634030323

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • teal polka dots
  • pixel art text
  • repeated polka dots
  • cyan and teal circles
  • black background pixel art
  • overlapping dot pattern
  • white pixel font
  • low resolution digital art

Visible Text

  • polka dots! polka dots!

Wordwall

  • teal
  • cyan
  • dots
  • black background
  • pixelated text
  • repeated text
  • overlapping shapes
  • partial circles

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710140511261634030323
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b7/b7791c5f0ff60b53858709fed32205abfdff50e13c34c820d50a8278dd80b98c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC
Archive ID
b7791c5f0ff60b53
SHA-256
b7791c5f0ff60b53858709fed32205abfdff50e13c34c820d50a8278dd80b98c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:31 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082556

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated teal dots on black background with repeated 'polka dots! polka dots!' text in white pixel font.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 09:56 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,663 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 663

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • quirky (mood, 0.80)
  • circles (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital art (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • dots (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • teal
  • cyan
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • repeating pattern
  • horizontal text bands
  • overlapping shapes

Dense Caption

Black background filled with multiple overlapping teal and cyan circular shapes of varying sizes. Two horizontal bands of white pixelated text reading "polka dots! polka dots!" appear across the image, one near the top and one near the bottom. Some circles are solid while others have partial segments missing or split into halves. The visual style is low-resolution digital art with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated teal dots on black background with repeated 'polka dots! polka dots!' text in white pixel font.

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 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
  • 200710140511261634030323

Mood

  • playful
  • quirky

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • teal polka dots
  • pixel art text
  • repeated polka dots
  • cyan and teal circles
  • black background pixel art
  • overlapping dot pattern
  • white pixel font
  • low resolution digital art

Objects

  • circles

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution digital art

Subjects

  • dots

Visible Text

  • polka dots! polka dots!

Wordwall

  • teal
  • cyan
  • dots
  • black background
  • pixelated text
  • repeated text
  • overlapping shapes
  • partial circles
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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
200710140511261634030323
Archive entry
200710140511261634030323.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 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#200710140511261634030323.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710140511261634030323.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016