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Pixelated static image with dark text on a light background bordered by red, showing partial letters and numbers.

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Pixelated static image with dark text on a light background bordered by red, showing partial letters and numbers.

Pixelated static image with dark text on a light background bordered by red, showing partial letters and numbers. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical red border on left
  • text arranged in rows
  • centered layout

Dense Caption

The icon is a pixelated static image featuring large, bold, black sans-serif characters arranged in rows against a light grayish-blue background. The left edge has a solid vertical red border. Visible characters include 'R', 'E', 'F', 'O', 'R', 'M', '1', '5', '7', 'G', '1', and partial forms of other letters. Pixelation obscures some character details, but the text appears to be part of a larger phrase or code. The image has no visible motion or animation.

Description

  • Pixelated static image with dark text on a light background bordered by red, showing partial letters and numbers.

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
  • 20070925133943704205737

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text red border
  • light grayish-blue background black letters
  • partial characters 157G1
  • red vertical border static icon

Visible Text

  • R
  • E
  • F
  • O
  • M
  • 1
  • 5
  • 7
  • G

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • static
  • black text
  • light grayish-blue background
  • red vertical border
  • partial characters
  • large bold letters

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070925133943704205737
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/dc/dcc92a4d119b21bf838ff1093c4ad0c4ab9ac92dfa6dc287662c5a991fc5ce44.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC
Archive ID
dcc92a4d119b21bf
SHA-256
dcc92a4d119b21bf838ff1093c4ad0c4ab9ac92dfa6dc287662c5a991fc5ce44
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:52 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.068255

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated static image with dark text on a light background bordered by red, showing partial letters and numbers.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 04:46 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,198 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,085, response 662

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light grayish blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • sans serif text (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • light grayish-blue
  • black

Composition

  • vertical red border on left
  • text arranged in rows
  • centered layout

Dense Caption

The icon is a pixelated static image featuring large, bold, black sans-serif characters arranged in rows against a light grayish-blue background. The left edge has a solid vertical red border. Visible characters include 'R', 'E', 'F', 'O', 'R', 'M', '1', '5', '7', 'G', '1', and partial forms of other letters. Pixelation obscures some character details, but the text appears to be part of a larger phrase or code. The image has no visible motion or animation.

Description

  • Pixelated static image with dark text on a light background bordered by red, showing partial letters and numbers.

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
  • 20070925133943704205737

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text red border
  • light grayish-blue background black letters
  • partial characters 157G1
  • red vertical border static icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • sans-serif text

Visible Text

  • R
  • E
  • F
  • O
  • M
  • 1
  • 5
  • 7
  • G

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • static
  • black text
  • light grayish-blue background
  • red vertical border
  • partial characters
  • large bold letters
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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
20070925133943704205737
Archive entry
20070925133943704205737.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 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#20070925133943704205737.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070925133943704205737.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016