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Blue and red pixelated text on black background with repeated names and phrases, some characters partially obscured by red artifacts.

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Blue and red pixelated text on black background with repeated names and phrases, some characters partially obscured by red artifacts.

Blue and red pixelated text on black background with repeated names and phrases, some characters partially obscured by red artifacts. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal of text
  • consistent spacing between characters
  • red artifacts scattered around blue text

Dense Caption

Black background displays blue pixelated text reading "Vincen" (repeated), "gina/bff" (repeated), "nicole/bffl" (repeated), "te/best bu" (repeated), and "Ramos" (repeated). Red pixel artifacts appear as scattered dots, lines, and partial shapes around text. Text is arranged in horizontal rows with consistent spacing between characters. Some letters show incomplete rendering due to red overlay effects.

Description

  • Blue and red pixelated text on black background with repeated names and phrases, some characters partially obscured by red artifacts.

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
  • 200709231650241549518180

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pixelated text black background
  • red artifacts scattered around blue text
  • repeated names partial character rendering
  • text-based buddy icon
  • pixelated low-resolution animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in static image
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows of text

Visible Text

  • Vincen
  • gina/bff
  • nicole/bffl
  • te/best bu
  • Ramos

Wordwall

  • blue pixelated text
  • red pixel artifacts
  • black background
  • repeated names
  • partial character rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709231650241549518180
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c6/c62cfb09ac3047f9abe32ef11bb202ee5d3093eeb82014e8986f110eba11d2f8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC
Archive ID
c62cfb09ac3047f9
SHA-256
c62cfb09ac3047f9abe32ef11bb202ee5d3093eeb82014e8986f110eba11d2f8
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:40 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.192663

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.846600onnx/unsafe0.192663onnx/nsfw0.148467onnx/nsfl0.044196
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Blue and red pixelated text on black background with repeated names and phrases, some characters partially obscured by red artifacts.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 04:23 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,447 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 656

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • fragmented (mood, 0.80)
  • static (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • pixel artifacts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • blue
  • red

Composition

  • horizontal of text
  • consistent spacing between characters
  • red artifacts scattered around blue text

Dense Caption

Black background displays blue pixelated text reading "Vincen" (repeated), "gina/bff" (repeated), "nicole/bffl" (repeated), "te/best bu" (repeated), and "Ramos" (repeated). Red pixel artifacts appear as scattered dots, lines, and partial shapes around text. Text is arranged in horizontal rows with consistent spacing between characters. Some letters show incomplete rendering due to red overlay effects.

Description

  • Blue and red pixelated text on black background with repeated names and phrases, some characters partially obscured by red artifacts.

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
  • 200709231650241549518180

Mood

  • static
  • fragmented

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pixelated text black background
  • red artifacts scattered around blue text
  • repeated names partial character rendering
  • text-based buddy icon
  • pixelated low-resolution animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in static image
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows of text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text
  • pixel artifacts

Visible Text

  • Vincen
  • gina/bff
  • nicole/bffl
  • te/best bu
  • Ramos

Wordwall

  • blue pixelated text
  • red pixel artifacts
  • black background
  • repeated names
  • partial character rendering
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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
200709231650241549518180
Archive entry
200709231650241549518180.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 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#200709231650241549518180.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709231650241549518180.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016