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Green background displays black text and red/brown pixelated symbols with animation changes in symbol positions.

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Green background displays black text and red/brown pixelated symbols with animation changes in symbol positions.

Green background displays black text and red/brown pixelated symbols with animation changes in symbol positions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • symbol position change

Animation Summary

  • The brown asterisk shifts one position right between observations.

Composition

  • text top
  • symbols bottom
  • centered

Dense Caption

Green background with black pixelated text: 'Fabio', 'El Salvador', 'Meiliger', 'x333333'. Below text, five pixelated symbols: four red asterisks and one brown asterisk. In the second observation, the brown asterisk shifts from third to fourth position from the left. Symbols remain red and brown. Text and background unchanged.

Description

  • Green background displays black text and red/brown pixelated symbols with animation changes in symbol positions.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background text
  • Fabio El Salvador Meiliger x333333
  • red brown asterisks
  • symbol shift animation

Visible Text

  • Fabio
  • El Salvador
  • Meiliger
  • x333333

Wordwall

  • green background
  • black pixelated text
  • Fabio
  • El Salvador
  • Meiliger
  • x333333
  • red asterisks
  • brown asterisk
  • symbol shift
  • two observations

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200904011642271279444470
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
346 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 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 15:55 UTC
Archive ID
d78a7799948e9649
SHA-256
d78a7799948e9649965b84e3f8e86903042014cf24fceec32e669e68d7e3a9f3
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:49 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.099882

OpenAI category scores

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Green background displays black text and red/brown pixelated symbols with animation changes in symbol positions.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 05:05 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,548 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 628

Review tags

  • symbol shift (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • brown asterisk (object, 0.80)
  • red asterisks (object, 0.80)
  • symbol position change (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static background (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • symbol shift

Animation

  • symbol position change

Animation Summary

  • The brown asterisk shifts one position right between observations.

Colors

  • green
  • black
  • red
  • brown

Composition

  • text top
  • symbols bottom
  • centered

Dense Caption

Green background with black pixelated text: 'Fabio', 'El Salvador', 'Meiliger', 'x333333'. Below text, five pixelated symbols: four red asterisks and one brown asterisk. In the second observation, the brown asterisk shifts from third to fourth position from the left. Symbols remain red and brown. Text and background unchanged.

Description

  • Green background displays black text and red/brown pixelated symbols with animation changes in symbol positions.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background text
  • Fabio El Salvador Meiliger x333333
  • red brown asterisks
  • symbol shift animation

Objects

  • red asterisks
  • brown asterisk

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static background

Visible Text

  • Fabio
  • El Salvador
  • Meiliger
  • x333333

Wordwall

  • green background
  • black pixelated text
  • Fabio
  • El Salvador
  • Meiliger
  • x333333
  • red asterisks
  • brown asterisk
  • symbol shift
  • two observations
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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
200904011642271279444470
Archive entry
200904011642271279444470.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 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#200904011642271279444470.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904011642271279444470.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016