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Blue background with repeating white bubble patterns and green text reading 'bubbles are addicibng' in four identical sections.

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Blue background with repeating white bubble patterns and green text reading 'bubbles are addicibng' in four identical sections.

Blue background with repeating white bubble patterns and green text reading 'bubbles are addicibng' in four identical sections. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four identical sections
  • symmetrical layout
  • text overlaid on patterned background

Dense Caption

The image features a blue background filled with repeated white bubble shapes arranged in rows. Overlaid on the patterned background is bright green pixelated text that reads "bubbles are addicibng"; this phrase appears in four distinct rectangular sections across the image, each section containing two lines of identical text. The bubbles have light and dark blue outlines creating a subtle 3D effect. The entire composition has a retro digital aesthetic with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Blue background with repeating white bubble patterns and green text reading 'bubbles are addicibng' in four identical sections.

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
  • 200808022012041513682861

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bubbles are addicibng
  • blue background bubble pattern
  • green text pixel art
  • repeating bubble design

Visible Text

  • bubbles are addicibng

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white bubble patterns
  • green text
  • bubbles are addicibng
  • repeating pattern
  • pixelated font
  • four identical sections
  • light and dark blue outlines

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808022012041513682861
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC
Archive ID
ceed2c2382809911
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:44 UTC
Run
1140
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Blue background with repeating white bubble patterns and green text reading 'bubbles are addicibng' in four identical sections.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,925 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 691

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
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  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • green

Composition

  • four identical sections
  • symmetrical layout
  • text overlaid on patterned background

Dense Caption

The image features a blue background filled with repeated white bubble shapes arranged in rows. Overlaid on the patterned background is bright green pixelated text that reads "bubbles are addicibng"; this phrase appears in four distinct rectangular sections across the image, each section containing two lines of identical text. The bubbles have light and dark blue outlines creating a subtle 3D effect. The entire composition has a retro digital aesthetic with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Blue background with repeating white bubble patterns and green text reading 'bubbles are addicibng' in four identical sections.

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
  • 200808022012041513682861

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bubbles are addicibng
  • blue background bubble pattern
  • green text pixel art
  • repeating bubble design

Objects

  • bubbles

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • repeating pattern

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  • text
  • bubble patterns

Visible Text

  • bubbles are addicibng

Wordwall

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  • white bubble patterns
  • green text
  • bubbles are addicibng
  • repeating pattern
  • pixelated font
  • four identical sections
  • light and dark blue outlines
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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
200808022012041513682861
Archive entry
200808022012041513682861.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 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#200808022012041513682861.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808022012041513682861.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016