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Blue background with repeated light blue text 'franks #15' and scattered white star-like shapes in various positions.

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Blue background with repeated light blue text 'franks #15' and scattered white star-like shapes in various positions.

Blue background with repeated light blue text 'franks #15' and scattered white star-like shapes in various positions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star-like shapes change position
  • dots appear in bottom-right corner

Animation Summary

  • Star-like shapes shift positions across frames; additional dots appear in the bottom-right corner.

Composition

  • nine
  • text centered in each
  • star-like shapes scattered

Dense Caption

Blue background with repeated light blue text 'franks #15' in a stylized font. White star-like shapes appear in different positions across the grid: three small plus signs in the top row, one small plus sign in the middle row, and one small plus sign in the bottom row. Additional white dots are scattered in the bottom-right corner. The text 'franks #15' is consistently displayed in the same position in each cell of the grid.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated light blue text 'franks #15' and scattered white star-like shapes in various positions.

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

  • franks #15 blue background
  • franks #15 star shapes
  • franks #15 white dots
  • blue background light blue text
  • franks #15
  • franks #15 pixelated text
  • franks #15 scattered shapes
  • franks #15 animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: text centered in each cell
  • quarantined composition: grid of nine cells
  • quarantined retrieval: franks #15 grid layout

Visible Text

  • franks #15

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • light blue text
  • franks #15
  • white star-like shapes
  • plus signs
  • dots
  • repeated text
  • stylized font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080826103440390430814
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c9/c9a9e65991f90f5ec683b704a8400417676fa9edc46bae8f10f2f719e01bf310.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
c9a9e65991f90f5e
SHA-256
c9a9e65991f90f5ec683b704a8400417676fa9edc46bae8f10f2f719e01bf310
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:41 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094374

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with repeated light blue text 'franks #15' and scattered white star-like shapes in various positions.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 21:40 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,427 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 744

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • dots appear in bottom right corner (other, 0.80)
  • star like shapes change position (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repeated text (style, 0.80)
  • dots (subject, 0.80)
  • star like shapes (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • star-like shapes change position
  • dots appear in bottom-right corner

Animation Summary

  • Star-like shapes shift positions across frames; additional dots appear in the bottom-right corner.

Colors

  • blue
  • light blue
  • white

Composition

  • nine
  • text centered in each
  • star-like shapes scattered

Dense Caption

Blue background with repeated light blue text 'franks #15' in a stylized font. White star-like shapes appear in different positions across the grid: three small plus signs in the top row, one small plus sign in the middle row, and one small plus sign in the bottom row. Additional white dots are scattered in the bottom-right corner. The text 'franks #15' is consistently displayed in the same position in each cell of the grid.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated light blue text 'franks #15' and scattered white star-like shapes in various positions.

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

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  • franks #15 white dots
  • blue background light blue text
  • franks #15
  • franks #15 pixelated text
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  • franks #15 animation

Objects

  • text
  • star-like shapes
  • dots

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Style

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  • dots

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  • franks #15

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • light blue text
  • franks #15
  • white star-like shapes
  • plus signs
  • dots
  • repeated text
  • stylized font
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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
20080826103440390430814
Archive entry
20080826103440390430814.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#20080826103440390430814.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080826103440390430814.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016