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Blue background with repeated blue text 'BRAD' and white pixelated icons showing stacked squares with dots.

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Blue background with repeated blue text 'BRAD' and white pixelated icons showing stacked squares with dots.

Blue background with repeated blue text 'BRAD' and white pixelated icons showing stacked squares with dots. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal of text and icons
  • repeated elements across the image

Dense Caption

The image features a light blue background. Across the top, middle, and bottom rows are horizontal sequences of large blue blocky letters spelling 'BRAD'. Each letter has small white square accents above it. Between these text rows are smaller white pixelated icons composed of stacked squares and dots; each icon is identical across all positions. The overall style is low-resolution digital with a retro aesthetic.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated blue text 'BRAD' and white pixelated icons showing stacked squares with dots.

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
  • 200709281406551218765383

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background brad text
  • stacked squares dots icons
  • pixelated white icon blue text
  • repeated brad blocky letters

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: repeated text rows
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows of text and icons

Visible Text

  • BRAD

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • blue blocky letters 'BRAD'
  • white square accents above letters
  • stacked squares and dots icons
  • identical pixelated white icons
  • repeated text
  • retro digital style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709281406551218765383
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b9/b98434e50683d75531804815f67e6978825e23948c3bbd03c602cb57ab2c76d5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC
Archive ID
b98434e50683d755
SHA-256
b98434e50683d75531804815f67e6978825e23948c3bbd03c602cb57ab2c76d5
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 25, 2026 at 21:38 UTC
Run
1191
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000783

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:33 UTC
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1140
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.104802

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Blue background with repeated blue text 'BRAD' and white pixelated icons showing stacked squares with dots.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 05:26 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,668 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 640

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • squares (object, 0.80)
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  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated icons (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • horizontal of text and icons
  • repeated elements across the image

Dense Caption

The image features a light blue background. Across the top, middle, and bottom rows are horizontal sequences of large blue blocky letters spelling 'BRAD'. Each letter has small white square accents above it. Between these text rows are smaller white pixelated icons composed of stacked squares and dots; each icon is identical across all positions. The overall style is low-resolution digital with a retro aesthetic.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated blue text 'BRAD' and white pixelated icons showing stacked squares with dots.

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
  • 200709281406551218765383

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background brad text
  • stacked squares dots icons
  • pixelated white icon blue text
  • repeated brad blocky letters

Objects

  • squares
  • dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: repeated text rows
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows of text and icons

Style

  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
  • blocky text
  • pixel art

Subjects

  • text
  • pixelated icons

Visible Text

  • BRAD

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • blue blocky letters 'BRAD'
  • white square accents above letters
  • stacked squares and dots icons
  • identical pixelated white icons
  • repeated text
  • retro digital style
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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
200709281406551218765383
Archive entry
200709281406551218765383.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 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#200709281406551218765383.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709281406551218765383.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016