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Four identical square arranged in a , each containing a of pink text on a green background with a light blue border

Four identical square arranged in a , each containing a of pink text on a green background with a light blue border. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all are identical

Composition

  • identical
  • text

Dense Caption

Four identical square panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel has a light blue border surrounding a green background. On the green background, there is a grid of pink text arranged in five rows: first row 'PM JJ', second row 'MV CV', third row 'BR KD', fourth row 'NS AS', fifth row 'NS AS'. The text is rendered in a pixelated, blocky font. The panels are identical in content and layout.

Description

  • Four identical square arranged in a , each containing a of pink text on a green background with a light blue border

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • text
  • pink text green background
  • light blue border
  • PM JJ MV CV BR KD NS AS
  • pixelated text
  • identical
  • blocky font

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical square panels arranged in a 2x2 grid, each containing a grid of pink text on a green background with a light blue border.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation changes; all panels are identical.
  • quarantined wordwall: text grid
  • quarantined wordwall: identical panels
  • quarantined wordwall: five rows of text
  • quarantined wordwall: four panels
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: text grid
  • quarantined composition: identical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: identical panels
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  • quarantined retrieval: text grid

Visible Text

  • PM JJ
  • MV CV
  • BR KD
  • NS AS

Wordwall

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  • light blue border
  • green background
  • pink text
  • pixelated font
  • five of text
  • PM JJ
  • MV CV
  • BR KD
  • NS AS
  • identical
  • blocky text
  • text
  • no animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070801100959249365757
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bf/bfb575a7f0c8c28ed4f95dd846c63fb7bb56a1b6406fa1d4b66ef01a2efd80df.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
bfb575a7f0c8c28e
SHA-256
bfb575a7f0c8c28ed4f95dd846c63fb7bb56a1b6406fa1d4b66ef01a2efd80df
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 29, 2026 at 16:37 UTC
Run
15963
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 15:04 UTC
Run
1272
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:36 UTC
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four identical square arranged in a , each containing a of pink text on a green background with a light blue border

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 17:14 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,943 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 714

Review tags

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  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all are identical

Colors

  • light blue
  • green
  • pink

Composition

  • identical
  • text

Dense Caption

Four identical square panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel has a light blue border surrounding a green background. On the green background, there is a grid of pink text arranged in five rows: first row 'PM JJ', second row 'MV CV', third row 'BR KD', fourth row 'NS AS', fifth row 'NS AS'. The text is rendered in a pixelated, blocky font. The panels are identical in content and layout.

Description

  • Four identical square arranged in a , each containing a of pink text on a green background with a light blue border

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • text
  • pink text green background
  • light blue border
  • PM JJ MV CV BR KD NS AS
  • pixelated text
  • identical
  • blocky font

Preprocessing Notes

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Style

  • pixelated
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  • PM JJ
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  • BR KD
  • NS AS

Wordwall

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  • MV CV
  • BR KD
  • NS AS
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:01 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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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20070801100959249365757
Archive entry
20070801100959249365757.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#20070801100959249365757.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070801100959249365757.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016