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Yellow pixelated border with four red 'Alex' texts on black background, central yellow starburst pattern.

Yellow pixelated border with four red 'Alex' texts on black background, central yellow starburst pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Share…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • four corner texts
  • central focal point

Dense Caption

Black background features a yellow pixelated border composed of jagged lines at each corner and along edges. Four instances of the text "Alex" in solid red appear: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right positions. A central yellow starburst pattern with eight radiating arms made of pixel clusters is present. All elements are static; no animation changes observed.

Description

  • Yellow pixelated border with four red 'Alex' texts on black background, central yellow starburst pattern.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow border black background red Alex
  • pixelated starburst text four corners

Visible Text

  • Alex

Visually Supported Entities

  • Alex

Wordwall

  • yellow border
  • black background
  • red text
  • Alex texts
  • central starburst
  • pixelated lines

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807071718191403526941
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/cc/cc6fcd65a1216525fe13b15f0540be1e7464281338f95f2a8fb03fb56d7a39fb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Archive ID
cc6fcd65a1216525
SHA-256
cc6fcd65a1216525fe13b15f0540be1e7464281338f95f2a8fb03fb56d7a39fb
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:43 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.071019

OpenAI category scores

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Yellow pixelated border with four red 'Alex' texts on black background, central yellow starburst pattern.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 11:07 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,132 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 523

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • red

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • four corner texts
  • central focal point

Dense Caption

Black background features a yellow pixelated border composed of jagged lines at each corner and along edges. Four instances of the text "Alex" in solid red appear: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right positions. A central yellow starburst pattern with eight radiating arms made of pixel clusters is present. All elements are static; no animation changes observed.

Description

  • Yellow pixelated border with four red 'Alex' texts on black background, central yellow starburst pattern.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow border black background red Alex
  • pixelated starburst text four corners

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Visible Text

  • Alex

Visually Supported Entities

  • Alex

Wordwall

  • yellow border
  • black background
  • red text
  • Alex texts
  • central starburst
  • pixelated lines
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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
200807071718191403526941
Archive entry
200807071718191403526941.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#200807071718191403526941.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807071718191403526941.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016