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Static image with cyan background, scattered blue dots, and repeated '2008' text in black pixelated font

Static image with cyan background, scattered blue dots, and repeated '2008' text in black pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Share…

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Source terms

Composition

  • four of four '2008' texts each
  • dots distributed across background
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

Cyan background filled with small scattered blue dots. Four horizontal rows of identical black pixelated text reading '2008', each row containing four instances of the text. Bottom-right corner shows a solid gray rectangular area overlapping part of the cyan background and dot pattern. All elements are static; no animation observed.

Description

  • Static image with cyan background, scattered blue dots, and repeated '2008' text in black pixelated 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801021118461573607839

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background blue dots 2008 text
  • repeated '2008' pixelated font
  • gray rectangle cyan background
  • blue dots scattered 2008

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Static image with cyan background, scattered blue dots, and repeated '2008' text in black pixelated font across rows.
  • quarantined composition: four rows of four '2008' texts each

Visible Text

  • 2008

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • blue dots scattered
  • '2008' text repeated
  • black pixelated font
  • gray rectangle bottom right

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801021118461573607839
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ba/ba26526e0e9b3640fb434641c64ba692c3ca674b261c18a09d22ea681e2b5b09.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC
Archive ID
ba26526e0e9b3640
SHA-256
ba26526e0e9b3640fb434641c64ba692c3ca674b261c18a09d22ea681e2b5b09
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
0.100151

OpenAI category scores

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Static image with cyan background, scattered blue dots, and repeated '2008' text in black pixelated font

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 06:58 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,131 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,125, response 718

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
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  • text 2008 (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • blue
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • four of four '2008' texts each
  • dots distributed across background
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

Cyan background filled with small scattered blue dots. Four horizontal rows of identical black pixelated text reading '2008', each row containing four instances of the text. Bottom-right corner shows a solid gray rectangular area overlapping part of the cyan background and dot pattern. All elements are static; no animation observed.

Description

  • Static image with cyan background, scattered blue dots, and repeated '2008' text in black pixelated 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801021118461573607839

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background blue dots 2008 text
  • repeated '2008' pixelated font
  • gray rectangle cyan background
  • blue dots scattered 2008

Objects

  • cyan background
  • blue dots
  • '2008' text
  • gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Static image with cyan background, scattered blue dots, and repeated '2008' text in black pixelated font across rows.
  • quarantined composition: four rows of four '2008' texts each

Style

  • pixelated
  • static
  • repetitive layout

Subjects

  • text '2008'
  • blue dots
  • gray rectangle

Visible Text

  • 2008

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • blue dots scattered
  • '2008' text repeated
  • black pixelated font
  • gray rectangle bottom right
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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
200801021118461573607839
Archive entry
200801021118461573607839.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 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#200801021118461573607839.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801021118461573607839.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016