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A blue background displays repeated text and symbols in white, with subtle animation changes in small icons below the text.

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A blue background displays repeated text and symbols in white, with subtle animation changes in small icons below the text.

A blue background displays repeated text and symbols in white, with subtle animation changes in small icons below the text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • plus sign changes to star
  • plus sign changes to dot
  • plus sign changes to x
  • plus sign changes to colon

Animation Summary

The leftmost icon changes from a plus sign to a star, the middle icon changes from a plus sign to a dot, and the rightmost icon changes from a plus sign to an 'x' and then to a colon.

Composition

  • three
  • text above icons

Dense Caption

The image shows a blue background with repeated white text "The Maine" above "<3" and "John Oh:]" in three horizontal rows. Each row contains three identical text blocks. Below the text, small white icons animate: the leftmost icon shows a plus sign that changes to a star, the middle icon shows a plus sign that changes to a dot, and the rightmost icon shows a plus sign that changes to an 'x' and then to a colon. The animation occurs across three sequential observations.

Description

  • A blue background displays repeated text and symbols in white, with subtle animation changes in small icons below the text.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white text The Maine
  • John Oh] plus sign star dot x colon
  • three three text icons
  • animation plus sign changes

Objects

  • plus sign
  • star
  • dot
  • x

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined composition: three rows
  • quarantined retrieval: three rows three columns text icons

Visible Text

  • The Maine
  • <3
  • John Oh:]

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text
  • The Maine
  • <3
  • John Oh:]
  • plus sign
  • star
  • dot
  • x
  • colon
  • three
  • small icons
  • animation changes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901180914401092430360
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ba/ba88d797baafb65de38fb9c8432c02e5e61071dacf9919d3ec3407fa7de24229.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC
Archive ID
ba88d797baafb65d
SHA-256
ba88d797baafb65de38fb9c8432c02e5e61071dacf9919d3ec3407fa7de24229
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.094468

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A blue background displays repeated text and symbols in white, with subtle animation changes in small icons below the text.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 18:54 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,941 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 732

Review tags

  • plus sign changes to colon (action, 0.80)
  • plus sign changes to dot (action, 0.80)
  • plus sign changes to star (action, 0.80)
  • plus sign changes to x (action, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • colon (object, 0.80)
  • dot (object, 0.80)
  • plus sign (object, 0.80)
  • star (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • plus sign changes to star
  • plus sign changes to dot
  • plus sign changes to x
  • plus sign changes to colon

Animation

  • plus sign changes to star
  • plus sign changes to dot
  • plus sign changes to x
  • plus sign changes to colon

Animation Summary

The leftmost icon changes from a plus sign to a star, the middle icon changes from a plus sign to a dot, and the rightmost icon changes from a plus sign to an 'x' and then to a colon.

Colors

  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • three
  • text above icons

Dense Caption

The image shows a blue background with repeated white text "The Maine" above "<3" and "John Oh:]" in three horizontal rows. Each row contains three identical text blocks. Below the text, small white icons animate: the leftmost icon shows a plus sign that changes to a star, the middle icon shows a plus sign that changes to a dot, and the rightmost icon shows a plus sign that changes to an 'x' and then to a colon. The animation occurs across three sequential observations.

Description

  • A blue background displays repeated text and symbols in white, with subtle animation changes in small icons below the text.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • quirky

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white text The Maine
  • John Oh] plus sign star dot x colon
  • three three text icons
  • animation plus sign changes

Objects

  • plus sign
  • star
  • dot
  • x
  • colon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined composition: three rows
  • quarantined retrieval: three rows three columns text icons

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • repetitive

Visible Text

  • The Maine
  • <3
  • John Oh:]

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text
  • The Maine
  • <3
  • John Oh:]
  • plus sign
  • star
  • dot
  • x
  • colon
  • three
  • small icons
  • animation changes
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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
200901180914401092430360
Archive entry
200901180914401092430360.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 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#200901180914401092430360.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901180914401092430360.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016