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Blue background with four black circular outlines containing repeated white text "VINNY" in vertical

Blue background with four black circular outlines containing repeated white text "VINNY" in vertical. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • repeated elements

Dense Caption

Four identical circular black outlines on a solid blue background. Each circle contains vertical columns of white text "VINNY" repeated five times per column. The text has a pixelated appearance with slight variations in vertical alignment across the four circles. The circles are arranged in a 2x2 grid pattern. The text appears to be rendered in a blocky, digital font style. The blue background is uniform and solid. The black outlines of the circles are thick and consistent across all four instances.

Description

  • Blue background with four black circular outlines containing repeated white text "VINNY" in vertical

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white text circles
  • VINNY repeated four times
  • pixelated text circles
  • text circles

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with four black circular outlines containing repeated white text "VINNY" in vertical columns.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined wordwall: vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid text circles

Visible Text

  • VINNY

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • black circular outlines
  • white text
  • VINNY repeated
  • vertical
  • pixelated text
  • solid color background
  • blocky font
  • repeated text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201012272231531547217243
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d0/d0f3354587698a99e8ce88962cb6827b7e5758f84ac19fc9e6961b9bc967c290.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC
Archive ID
d0f3354587698a99
SHA-256
d0f3354587698a99e8ce88962cb6827b7e5758f84ac19fc9e6961b9bc967c290
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
0.093295

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue background with four black circular outlines containing repeated white text "VINNY" in vertical

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 21:37 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,919 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 650

Review tags

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  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • blue
  • black
  • white

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  • symmetrical
  • repeated elements

Dense Caption

Four identical circular black outlines on a solid blue background. Each circle contains vertical columns of white text "VINNY" repeated five times per column. The text has a pixelated appearance with slight variations in vertical alignment across the four circles. The circles are arranged in a 2x2 grid pattern. The text appears to be rendered in a blocky, digital font style. The blue background is uniform and solid. The black outlines of the circles are thick and consistent across all four instances.

Description

  • Blue background with four black circular outlines containing repeated white text "VINNY" in vertical

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white text circles
  • VINNY repeated four times
  • pixelated text circles
  • text circles

Objects

  • circles

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with four black circular outlines containing repeated white text "VINNY" in vertical columns.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined wordwall: vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid text circles

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  • pixelated
  • digital
  • repetitive

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • VINNY

Wordwall

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  • black circular outlines
  • white text
  • VINNY repeated
  • vertical
  • pixelated text
  • solid color background
  • blocky font
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 23:20 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
201012272231531547217243
Archive entry
201012272231531547217243.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 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#201012272231531547217243.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201012272231531547217243.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016