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Blue background with repeated white text "Say Cheese =]" and light blue star shapes with dotted trails.

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Blue background with repeated white text "Say Cheese =]" and light blue star shapes with dotted trails.

Blue background with repeated white text "Say Cheese =]" and light blue star shapes with dotted trails. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • like arrangement
  • symmetrical
  • text-star pairs

Dense Caption

Blue background with repeated white text "Say Cheese =]" in pixelated font across six positions. Light blue star shapes with dotted trails appear in four corners and two mid-side positions. Stars have five points and are connected by vertical or horizontal dotted lines. Text is centered below each star. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated white text "Say Cheese =]" and light blue star shapes with dotted trails.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background say cheese
  • light blue stars dotted trails
  • pixelated text say cheese
  • repeated say cheese =]

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid-like arrangement

Visible Text

  • Say Cheese =]

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text
  • Say Cheese =]
  • light blue stars
  • dotted trails
  • pixelated font
  • six text positions
  • four corner stars
  • two mid-side stars

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708010647531038999644
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
596 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
b8fd5f69d81b68cf
SHA-256
b8fd5f69d81b68cf52385001809c1fb0ba28d78118a7206f0a09004af52c9481
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:33 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.099775

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue background with repeated white text "Say Cheese =]" and light blue star shapes with dotted trails.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 17:10 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,476 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,169, response 566

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dotted trails (object, 0.80)
  • stars (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • light blue

Composition

  • like arrangement
  • symmetrical
  • text-star pairs

Dense Caption

Blue background with repeated white text "Say Cheese =]" in pixelated font across six positions. Light blue star shapes with dotted trails appear in four corners and two mid-side positions. Stars have five points and are connected by vertical or horizontal dotted lines. Text is centered below each star. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated white text "Say Cheese =]" and light blue star shapes with dotted trails.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background say cheese
  • light blue stars dotted trails
  • pixelated text say cheese
  • repeated say cheese =]

Objects

  • stars
  • dotted trails

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid-like arrangement

Style

  • pixel art
  • repetitive
  • static

Visible Text

  • Say Cheese =]

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text
  • Say Cheese =]
  • light blue stars
  • dotted trails
  • pixelated font
  • six text positions
  • four corner stars
  • two mid-side stars
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:00 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200708010647531038999644
Archive entry
200708010647531038999644.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#200708010647531038999644.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708010647531038999644.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016