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Red background with scattered white plus signs and small dots, some of which animate as larger crosses.

Red background with scattered white plus signs and small dots, some of which animate as larger crosses. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Animation Summary

Animated frames show select white plus signs expanding into larger crosses with extended arms; other small dots remain static. No additional motion or content changes observed.

Composition

  • sparse
  • scattered

Dense Caption

The image features a solid red background. Scattered across the background are multiple white pixelated shapes: most are four-pointed stars or plus signs (some appear slightly blurred), while smaller individual dots also exist. In animation frames, certain plus signs expand into larger cross shapes with extended arms; other small dots remain static. The overall composition is sparse and scattered without central focus.

Description

  • Red background with scattered white plus signs and small dots, some of which animate as larger crosses.

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
  • 200709271417111562535213

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background white stars
  • white pixelated shapes red
  • scattered plus signs animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • no visible text or identifiable subjects; animation limited to shape expansion of select plus signs

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white pixelated shapes
  • four-pointed stars
  • plus signs
  • small dots
  • scattered arrangement
  • pixelated rendering
  • animation: expanding crosses

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709271417111562535213
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
446 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c6/c68f43f75e52c0925be94991144c9a4bb0ccf24c696375aa73bac5864ebc7f68.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC
Archive ID
c68f43f75e52c092
SHA-256
c68f43f75e52c0925be94991144c9a4bb0ccf24c696375aa73bac5864ebc7f68
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.258103

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with scattered white plus signs and small dots, some of which animate as larger crosses.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 05:14 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,517 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 569

Review tags

  • expanding crosses animated (action, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • plus signs (object, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • expanding crosses (animated)

Animation Summary

Animated frames show select white plus signs expanding into larger crosses with extended arms; other small dots remain static. No additional motion or content changes observed.

Colors

  • red
  • white

Composition

  • sparse
  • scattered

Dense Caption

The image features a solid red background. Scattered across the background are multiple white pixelated shapes: most are four-pointed stars or plus signs (some appear slightly blurred), while smaller individual dots also exist. In animation frames, certain plus signs expand into larger cross shapes with extended arms; other small dots remain static. The overall composition is sparse and scattered without central focus.

Description

  • Red background with scattered white plus signs and small dots, some of which animate as larger crosses.

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
  • 200709271417111562535213

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background white stars
  • white pixelated shapes red
  • scattered plus signs animation

Objects

  • plus signs
  • dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • no visible text or identifiable subjects; animation limited to shape expansion of select plus signs

Style

  • pixel art
  • minimalist

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white pixelated shapes
  • four-pointed stars
  • plus signs
  • small dots
  • scattered arrangement
  • pixelated rendering
  • animation: expanding crosses
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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
200709271417111562535213
Archive entry
200709271417111562535213.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#200709271417111562535213.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709271417111562535213.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016