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Green background with pink text reading 'be a trend setter ... not a follower' and green square icons in corners.

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Green background with pink text reading 'be a trend setter ... not a follower' and green square icons in corners.

Green background with pink text reading 'be a trend setter ... not a follower' and green square icons in corners. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Mood

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Source terms

Composition

  • four identical text/icon sets
  • symmetrical layout
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

Solid light green background. Four identical sets of pink pixelated text: 'be a', 'trend', 'setter ...', 'not a', 'follower'. Each set has four small green square icons arranged around it (top-right, bottom-left, top-left, bottom-right). Text is in uppercase with ellipses after 'setter'. Icons are solid green squares with smaller nested squares. All elements repeat across the image.

Description

  • Green background with pink text reading 'be a trend setter ... not a follower' and green square icons in corners.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711171659232036258394

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background pink text trend setter follower
  • square icons repeating pattern
  • pixelated be a trend setter not a follower
  • text-based buddy icon green squares

Visible Text

  • be a
  • trend
  • setter ...
  • not a
  • follower

Wordwall

  • green background
  • pink text
  • be a trend setter ... not a follower
  • four square icons per set
  • green square icons
  • pixelated text
  • ellipses after 'setter'
  • repeating pattern

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711171659232036258394
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 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/d8/d83b368ff28a44dd74e6353bc7e74fc0216853e87821304b4a8b53d11e24a172.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 UTC
Archive ID
d83b368ff28a44dd
SHA-256
d83b368ff28a44dd74e6353bc7e74fc0216853e87821304b4a8b53d11e24a172
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
0.263239

OpenAI category scores

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Green background with pink text reading 'be a trend setter ... not a follower' and green square icons in corners.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 19:36 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,668 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 652

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • assertive (mood, 0.80)
  • motivational (mood, 0.80)
  • square icons (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • light green
  • pink
  • green

Composition

  • four identical text/icon sets
  • symmetrical layout
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

Solid light green background. Four identical sets of pink pixelated text: 'be a', 'trend', 'setter ...', 'not a', 'follower'. Each set has four small green square icons arranged around it (top-right, bottom-left, top-left, bottom-right). Text is in uppercase with ellipses after 'setter'. Icons are solid green squares with smaller nested squares. All elements repeat across the image.

Description

  • Green background with pink text reading 'be a trend setter ... not a follower' and green square icons in corners.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711171659232036258394

Mood

  • assertive
  • motivational

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background pink text trend setter follower
  • square icons repeating pattern
  • pixelated be a trend setter not a follower
  • text-based buddy icon green squares

Objects

  • square icons

Style

  • pixelated
  • repeating pattern
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • be a
  • trend
  • setter ...
  • not a
  • follower

Wordwall

  • green background
  • pink text
  • be a trend setter ... not a follower
  • four square icons per set
  • green square icons
  • pixelated text
  • ellipses after 'setter'
  • repeating pattern
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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
200711171659232036258394
Archive entry
200711171659232036258394.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 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#200711171659232036258394.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711171659232036258394.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016