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Dark blue background with white pixelated stars and four green 'hoia' text elements arranged in a

Dark blue background with white pixelated stars and four green 'hoia' text elements arranged in a. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Animation Summary

No visible motion or content changes across observations; four identical 'hoia' text elements remain fixed in symmetrical on dark blue starry background

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • four identical elements
  • centered layout

Dense Caption

Dark blue background filled with scattered white square pixels resembling stars. Four identical instances of the word 'hoia' rendered in bright green, blocky, pixelated font appear at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right positions forming a symmetrical 2x2 layout. All text elements maintain consistent size and spacing across all visible frames with no discernible motion or variation between observations.

Description

  • Dark blue background with white pixelated stars and four green 'hoia' text elements arranged in a

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
  • 200803212021111382253411

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark blue pixel art
  • green blocky text hoia
  • starry background pixelated
  • symmetrical text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Dark blue background with white pixelated stars and four green 'hoia' text elements arranged in a 2x2 grid.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible motion or content changes across observations; four identical 'hoia' text elements remain fixed in symmetrical 2x2 grid on dark blue starry background.
  • quarantined wordwall: symmetrical 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: symmetrical 2x2 grid text

Visible Text

  • hoia

Wordwall

  • dark blue background
  • white square pixels
  • green blocky text
  • 'hoia' text
  • symmetrical
  • pixelated font
  • scattered stars

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803212021111382253411
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ca/ca5ebe3b5afcc6787ee1a3be9434c875d6e081343a206543c95222d5cbd821f6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC
Archive ID
ca5ebe3b5afcc678
SHA-256
ca5ebe3b5afcc6787ee1a3be9434c875d6e081343a206543c95222d5cbd821f6
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:42 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073858

OpenAI category scores

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Dark blue background with white pixelated stars and four green 'hoia' text elements arranged in a

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 09:17 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,836 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 603

Review tags

  • bright green (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

No visible motion or content changes across observations; four identical 'hoia' text elements remain fixed in symmetrical on dark blue starry background

Colors

  • dark blue
  • white
  • bright green

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • four identical elements
  • centered layout

Dense Caption

Dark blue background filled with scattered white square pixels resembling stars. Four identical instances of the word 'hoia' rendered in bright green, blocky, pixelated font appear at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right positions forming a symmetrical 2x2 layout. All text elements maintain consistent size and spacing across all visible frames with no discernible motion or variation between observations.

Description

  • Dark blue background with white pixelated stars and four green 'hoia' text elements arranged in a

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
  • 200803212021111382253411

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark blue pixel art
  • green blocky text hoia
  • starry background pixelated
  • symmetrical text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Dark blue background with white pixelated stars and four green 'hoia' text elements arranged in a 2x2 grid.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible motion or content changes across observations; four identical 'hoia' text elements remain fixed in symmetrical 2x2 grid on dark blue starry background.
  • quarantined wordwall: symmetrical 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: symmetrical 2x2 grid text

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • blocky text

Visible Text

  • hoia

Wordwall

  • dark blue background
  • white square pixels
  • green blocky text
  • 'hoia' text
  • symmetrical
  • pixelated font
  • scattered stars
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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
200803212021111382253411
Archive entry
200803212021111382253411.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 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#200803212021111382253411.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803212021111382253411.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016