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A cyan background displays repeated 'Arden' text with changing dark blue symbols above each instance.

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A cyan background displays repeated 'Arden' text with changing dark blue symbols above each instance.

A cyan background displays repeated 'Arden' text with changing dark blue symbols above each instance. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • symbols change across frames

Animation Summary

Dark blue symbols change across frames: plus sign, four-pointed star, X in top ; plus sign, single dot, three-dot cluster in middle ; dot cluster, small dot cluster, scattered dots in bottom

Composition

  • three
  • text above symbols

Dense Caption

Cyan background with three rows of white 'Arden' text. Top row symbols: left is a solid plus sign, middle is a four-pointed star, right is an X. Middle row symbols: left is a plus sign, middle is a single dot, right is a three-dot cluster. Bottom row symbols: left is a dot cluster, middle is a small dot cluster, right is a few scattered dots. All symbols are dark blue. Text is consistent across all positions.

Description

  • A cyan background displays repeated 'Arden' text with changing dark blue symbols above each instance.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background arden text dark blue symbols
  • arden text plus star x dots
  • three arden text symbols
  • dark blue symbol changes arden

Objects

  • plus sign
  • X

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Dark blue symbols change across frames: plus sign, four-pointed star, X in top row; plus sign, single dot, three-dot cluster in middle row; dot cluster, small dot cluster, scattered dots in bottom row.
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined composition: three rows
  • quarantined retrieval: three row arden text symbols

Visible Text

  • Arden

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • white 'Arden' text
  • dark blue symbols
  • plus sign
  • four-pointed star
  • X
  • single dot
  • three-dot cluster
  • dot cluster
  • scattered dots

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902221509201014099043
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
691 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bc/bceb284d403138a3bf148e1d5570f1be9955f2299178230faa2684aceecefd2b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
bceb284d403138a3
SHA-256
bceb284d403138a3bf148e1d5570f1be9955f2299178230faa2684aceecefd2b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:35 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089055

OpenAI category scores

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A cyan background displays repeated 'Arden' text with changing dark blue symbols above each instance.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 00:15 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,776 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 724

Review tags

  • symbols change (action, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • minimalist (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dot cluster (object, 0.80)
  • four pointed star (object, 0.80)
  • plus sign (object, 0.80)
  • scattered dots (object, 0.80)
  • single dot (object, 0.80)
  • three dot cluster (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • symbols change

Animation

  • symbols change across frames

Animation Summary

Dark blue symbols change across frames: plus sign, four-pointed star, X in top ; plus sign, single dot, three-dot cluster in middle ; dot cluster, small dot cluster, scattered dots in bottom

Colors

  • cyan
  • white
  • dark blue

Composition

  • three
  • text above symbols

Dense Caption

Cyan background with three rows of white 'Arden' text. Top row symbols: left is a solid plus sign, middle is a four-pointed star, right is an X. Middle row symbols: left is a plus sign, middle is a single dot, right is a three-dot cluster. Bottom row symbols: left is a dot cluster, middle is a small dot cluster, right is a few scattered dots. All symbols are dark blue. Text is consistent across all positions.

Description

  • A cyan background displays repeated 'Arden' text with changing dark blue symbols above each instance.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • minimalist

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • arden text plus star x dots
  • three arden text symbols
  • dark blue symbol changes arden

Objects

  • plus sign
  • four-pointed star
  • X
  • single dot
  • three-dot cluster
  • dot cluster
  • scattered dots

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined composition: three rows
  • quarantined retrieval: three row arden text symbols

Style

  • pixelated

Visible Text

  • Arden

Wordwall

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  • white 'Arden' text
  • dark blue symbols
  • plus sign
  • four-pointed star
  • X
  • single dot
  • three-dot cluster
  • dot cluster
  • scattered dots
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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
200902221509201014099043
Archive entry
200902221509201014099043.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#200902221509201014099043.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902221509201014099043.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016