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Animated pattern of pink, blue, green, and yellow shapes with white text characters V I C :O :) =I K I on black background.

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Animated pattern of pink, blue, green, and yellow shapes with white text characters V I C :O :) =I K I on black background.

Animated pattern of pink, blue, green, and yellow shapes with white text characters V I C :O :) =I K I on black background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • vertical dripping motion of shapes

Animation Summary

The image shows a repeating pattern of bright pink, cyan, green, and yellow abstract shapes with white text characters on a black background. The shapes exhibit subtle vertical dripping motion while the text remains fixed.

Composition

  • symmetrical arrangement
  • fixed text positions

Dense Caption

The image displays a repeating animated pattern composed of bright pink, cyan, green, and yellow abstract shapes against a black background. White text characters appear in fixed positions: 'V' at top-left, 'I' above center, 'C' at top-right, ':O' below 'C', ':)' next to ':O', '=I' at bottom-right, 'K' at bottom-left, and another 'I' between 'K' and the central shape. The shapes exhibit subtle vertical motion with a dripping effect.

Description

  • Animated pattern of pink, blue, green, and yellow shapes with white text characters V I C :O :) =I K I on black background.

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

  • pink abstract shapes
  • cyan drips
  • white text V I C :O :) =I K I
  • repeating pattern animation
  • black background pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Visible Text

  • V
  • I
  • C
  • :O
  • :)
  • =I
  • K

Visually Supported Entities

  • text characters
  • abstract shapes

Wordwall

  • repeating pattern
  • pink abstract shapes
  • cyan drips
  • green accents
  • yellow accents
  • white text characters
  • black background
  • vertical motion
  • :O face
  • :) face

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200904211600191797572805
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
8.2 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d0/d0d61d033de0d3063c303b21db92f6b708362f2e552b2cfa2e119f29797f1c6e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
d0d61d033de0d306
SHA-256
d0d61d033de0d3063c303b21db92f6b708362f2e552b2cfa2e119f29797f1c6e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:45 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096765

OpenAI category scores

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Animated pattern of pink, blue, green, and yellow shapes with white text characters V I C :O :) =I K I on black background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 07:31 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,318 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,171, response 705

Review tags

  • dripping (action, 0.80)
  • repeating (action, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • chaotic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • shapes (object, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • graffiti like (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • abstract shapes (subject, 0.80)
  • text characters (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • dripping
  • repeating

Animation

  • vertical dripping motion of shapes

Animation Summary

The image shows a repeating pattern of bright pink, cyan, green, and yellow abstract shapes with white text characters on a black background. The shapes exhibit subtle vertical dripping motion while the text remains fixed.

Colors

  • pink
  • cyan
  • green
  • yellow
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • symmetrical arrangement
  • fixed text positions

Dense Caption

The image displays a repeating animated pattern composed of bright pink, cyan, green, and yellow abstract shapes against a black background. White text characters appear in fixed positions: 'V' at top-left, 'I' above center, 'C' at top-right, ':O' below 'C', ':)' next to ':O', '=I' at bottom-right, 'K' at bottom-left, and another 'I' between 'K' and the central shape. The shapes exhibit subtle vertical motion with a dripping effect.

Description

  • Animated pattern of pink, blue, green, and yellow shapes with white text characters V I C :O :) =I K I on black background.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • chaotic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink abstract shapes
  • cyan drips
  • white text V I C :O :) =I K I
  • repeating pattern animation
  • black background pixel art

Objects

  • shapes
  • text characters

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • graffiti-like
  • animated

Subjects

  • abstract shapes
  • text characters

Visible Text

  • V
  • I
  • C
  • :O
  • :)
  • =I
  • K

Visually Supported Entities

  • text characters
  • abstract shapes

Wordwall

  • repeating pattern
  • pink abstract shapes
  • cyan drips
  • green accents
  • yellow accents
  • white text characters
  • black background
  • vertical motion
  • :O face
  • :) face
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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
200904211600191797572805
Archive entry
200904211600191797572805.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#200904211600191797572805.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904211600191797572805.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016