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A static digital image with a dark red background overlaid by green pixelated lines, featuring white text and symbols arranged in vertical layers.

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A static digital image with a dark red background overlaid by green pixelated lines, featuring white text and symbols arranged in vertical layers.

A static digital image with a dark red background overlaid by green pixelated lines, featuring white text and symbols arranged in vertical layers. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ico…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical text layers
  • overlay pattern
  • partial gray rectangle

Dense Caption

The image displays four distinct visual states across its layout. Top-left: The full composition shows 'Gimmi' at the top, followed by 'IO', then 'GIMMI', and a row of horizontal bars beneath it; green pixelated lines overlay the dark red background. Top-right: Identical to top-left but with slightly less visible green line density on the right side. Bottom-left: Same text arrangement as top-left but with increased green line visibility across all areas. Bottom-right: A solid gray rectangle replaces the bottom-left section, showing no text or green lines.

Description

A static digital image with a dark red background overlaid by green pixelated lines, featuring white text and symbols arranged in vertical layers.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070906134952262827078

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gimmi io gimmi text
  • dark red green white gray image
  • text layers horizontal bars
  • green pixelated overlay gray rectangle

Visible Text

  • Gimmi
  • IO

Wordwall

  • dark red background
  • green pixelated overlay
  • white text 'Gimmi'
  • text 'IO' below 'Gimmi'
  • text 'GIMMI' below 'IO'
  • horizontal bars beneath 'GIMMI'
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070906134952262827078
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ca/ca7f40af96689746517e9b6afb9c76ec50bbf365632c2d916b778f0bcfb76cff.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
ca7f40af96689746
SHA-256
ca7f40af96689746517e9b6afb9c76ec50bbf365632c2d916b778f0bcfb76cff
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:18 UTC
Run
1087
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.070066

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A static digital image with a dark red background overlaid by green pixelated lines, featuring white text and symbols arranged in vertical layers.

Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 23:50 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,639 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 688

Review tags

  • dark red (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark red
  • green
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • vertical text layers
  • overlay pattern
  • partial gray rectangle

Dense Caption

The image displays four distinct visual states across its layout. Top-left: The full composition shows 'Gimmi' at the top, followed by 'IO', then 'GIMMI', and a row of horizontal bars beneath it; green pixelated lines overlay the dark red background. Top-right: Identical to top-left but with slightly less visible green line density on the right side. Bottom-left: Same text arrangement as top-left but with increased green line visibility across all areas. Bottom-right: A solid gray rectangle replaces the bottom-left section, showing no text or green lines.

Description

A static digital image with a dark red background overlaid by green pixelated lines, featuring white text and symbols arranged in vertical layers.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070906134952262827078

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gimmi io gimmi text
  • dark red green white gray image
  • text layers horizontal bars
  • green pixelated overlay gray rectangle

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static

Visible Text

  • Gimmi
  • IO

Wordwall

  • dark red background
  • green pixelated overlay
  • white text 'Gimmi'
  • text 'IO' below 'Gimmi'
  • text 'GIMMI' below 'IO'
  • horizontal bars beneath 'GIMMI'
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right
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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
20070906134952262827078
Archive entry
20070906134952262827078.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#20070906134952262827078.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070906134952262827078.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016