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Blue background with repeating cyan pixelated square patterns and 'ICON' text in light blue.

Blue background with repeating cyan pixelated square patterns and 'ICON' text in light blue. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical arrangement
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

Solid bright blue background. Six identical cyan pixel art icons arranged in a grid pattern; each icon consists of stacked squares, dots, and lines forming an abstract geometric shape. Four instances of the word 'ICON' rendered in light blue pixelated font appear between the icons. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Blue background with repeating cyan pixelated square patterns and 'ICON' text in light blue.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200711081246442140465361

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background cyan pixel art
  • stacked squares dots lines
  • light blue text layout
  • pixel art abstract geometric shapes

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: light blue text ICON grid layout

Visible Text

  • ICON

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • cyan pixel art
  • stacked squares
  • dots
  • lines
  • light blue text
  • 'ICON'
  • arrangement

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711081246442140465361
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
746 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC
Archive ID
c27e7ca062cb342c
SHA-256
c27e7ca062cb342cbcef380f929ecb5b796a4093dce428d0b9ad43927630ff2f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:36 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.110229

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with repeating cyan pixelated square patterns and 'ICON' text in light blue.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 16:12 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,167 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 555

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • technical (mood, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • lines (object, 0.80)
  • squares (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)
  • abstract geometric shapes (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • cyan
  • light blue

Composition

  • symmetrical arrangement
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

Solid bright blue background. Six identical cyan pixel art icons arranged in a grid pattern; each icon consists of stacked squares, dots, and lines forming an abstract geometric shape. Four instances of the word 'ICON' rendered in light blue pixelated font appear between the icons. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Blue background with repeating cyan pixelated square patterns and 'ICON' text in light blue.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200711081246442140465361

Mood

  • neutral
  • technical

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background cyan pixel art
  • stacked squares dots lines
  • light blue text layout
  • pixel art abstract geometric shapes

Objects

  • squares
  • dots
  • lines

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: light blue text ICON grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • repeating pattern

Subjects

  • abstract geometric shapes
  • text

Visible Text

  • ICON

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • cyan pixel art
  • stacked squares
  • dots
  • lines
  • light blue text
  • 'ICON'
  • arrangement
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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
200711081246442140465361
Archive entry
200711081246442140465361.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 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#200711081246442140465361.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711081246442140465361.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016