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Blue background with cyan pixelated text reading 'my icon is better than your icon' and scattered light blue plus signs.

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Blue background with cyan pixelated text reading 'my icon is better than your icon' and scattered light blue plus signs.

Blue background with cyan pixelated text reading 'my icon is better than your icon' and scattered light blue plus signs. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text centered horizontally
  • plus signs scattered throughout background

Dense Caption

The image displays a solid bright blue background. Overlaid in cyan pixelated font are the words 'my icon is better than your icon', arranged across four lines: 'my icon' on the first line, 'is better' on the second, 'than your' on the third, and 'icon' on the fourth. Small light blue plus signs (asterisks) are scattered throughout the background. The text appears identical in all visible sections of the image.

Description

  • Blue background with cyan pixelated text reading 'my icon is better than your icon' and scattered light blue plus signs.

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
  • 200803191005132071392450

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pixelated text blue background
  • my icon is better than your icon
  • light blue plus signs scattered
  • pixelated retro digital style

Visible Text

  • my icon
  • is better
  • than your
  • icon

Wordwall

  • cyan pixelated text
  • bright blue background
  • light blue plus signs
  • text reads my icon is better than your icon

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803191005132071392450
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
674 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c4/c414d8f83759f90bf4190b3ab3f876b2248fb2d4efe3aeb70be0f80b0bcca503.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 UTC
Archive ID
c414d8f83759f90b
SHA-256
c414d8f83759f90bf4190b3ab3f876b2248fb2d4efe3aeb70be0f80b0bcca503
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:22 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.106882

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with cyan pixelated text reading 'my icon is better than your icon' and scattered light blue plus signs.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 08:15 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,818 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 626

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • confident (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • cyan
  • light blue

Composition

  • text centered horizontally
  • plus signs scattered throughout background

Dense Caption

The image displays a solid bright blue background. Overlaid in cyan pixelated font are the words 'my icon is better than your icon', arranged across four lines: 'my icon' on the first line, 'is better' on the second, 'than your' on the third, and 'icon' on the fourth. Small light blue plus signs (asterisks) are scattered throughout the background. The text appears identical in all visible sections of the image.

Description

  • Blue background with cyan pixelated text reading 'my icon is better than your icon' and scattered light blue plus signs.

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
  • 200803191005132071392450

Mood

  • playful
  • confident

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pixelated text blue background
  • my icon is better than your icon
  • light blue plus signs scattered
  • pixelated retro digital style

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • my icon
  • is better
  • than your
  • icon

Wordwall

  • cyan pixelated text
  • bright blue background
  • light blue plus signs
  • text reads my icon is better than your icon
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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
200803191005132071392450
Archive entry
200803191005132071392450.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 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#200803191005132071392450.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803191005132071392450.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016