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A static image with a fiery orange and red background displaying the text 'im' at top-left, 'hot' in center, and 'im' below it.

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A static image with a fiery orange and red background displaying the text 'im' at top-left, 'hot' in center, and 'im' below it.

A static image with a fiery orange and red background displaying the text 'im' at top-left, 'hot' in center, and 'im' below it. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-left 'im'
  • top-right 'im'
  • centered 'hot' (two instances)
  • bottom-right solid gray fill

Dense Caption

The image shows a static composition with a pixelated fiery background of orange and red hues. Four instances of black blocky text appear: two 'im' labels positioned near the top corners (top-left and top-right) and two 'hot' labels centered horizontally in the middle section. The bottom-right quadrant is filled with solid gray color, contrasting against the fiery pattern on all other sides.

Description

  • A static image with a fiery orange and red background displaying the text 'im' at top-left, 'hot' in center, and 'im' below it.

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
  • 200801051829362041427257

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • fiery background im hot
  • im text orange red gray
  • hot text centered fiery
  • gray fill bottom-right

Visible Text

  • im
  • hot

Wordwall

  • fiery background
  • orange-red hues
  • black blocky text
  • 'im' text (top-left, top-right)
  • 'hot' text (centered)
  • gray fill (bottom-right)

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801051829362041427257
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ca/cadeec5a6b6dd6ac15e239f639736404df9d2e1b09cc161415a38a4ac5cdd1a2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC
Archive ID
cadeec5a6b6dd6ac
SHA-256
cadeec5a6b6dd6ac15e239f639736404df9d2e1b09cc161415a38a4ac5cdd1a2
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:42 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.140132

OpenAI category scores

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A static image with a fiery orange and red background displaying the text 'im' at top-left, 'hot' in center, and 'im' below it.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 08:05 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,590 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 648

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • fiery background pattern (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • orange
  • red
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • top-left 'im'
  • top-right 'im'
  • centered 'hot' (two instances)
  • bottom-right solid gray fill

Dense Caption

The image shows a static composition with a pixelated fiery background of orange and red hues. Four instances of black blocky text appear: two 'im' labels positioned near the top corners (top-left and top-right) and two 'hot' labels centered horizontally in the middle section. The bottom-right quadrant is filled with solid gray color, contrasting against the fiery pattern on all other sides.

Description

  • A static image with a fiery orange and red background displaying the text 'im' at top-left, 'hot' in center, and 'im' below it.

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
  • 200801051829362041427257

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • fiery background im hot
  • im text orange red gray
  • hot text centered fiery
  • gray fill bottom-right

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text
  • fiery background pattern

Visible Text

  • im
  • hot

Wordwall

  • fiery background
  • orange-red hues
  • black blocky text
  • 'im' text (top-left, top-right)
  • 'hot' text (centered)
  • gray fill (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
200801051829362041427257
Archive entry
200801051829362041427257.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 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#200801051829362041427257.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801051829362041427257.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016