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Pixelated green background with repeated purple-haired figures; text overlays change across frames.

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Pixelated green background with repeated purple-haired figures; text overlays change across frames.

Pixelated green background with repeated purple-haired figures; text overlays change across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text elements change across frames: 'Dylan'/'And'/'sara' replace each other in top ; 'BMS'/'4'/'Life' replace each other in bottom

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change across frames: top displays 'Dylan', 'And', 'sara'; bottom displays 'BMS', '4', 'Life'

Composition

  • two of repeated figures
  • text overlays in top and bottom

Dense Caption

Green pixelated background features repeating stylized figures with purple hair and light skin tones. Text elements appear in distinct colors: red 'Dylan', purple 'And', cyan 'sara' in top row; yellow 'BMS', green '4', blue 'Life' in bottom row. All text uses blocky, outlined fonts typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated green background with repeated purple-haired figures; text overlays change across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • Dylan
  • BMS
  • 4
  • Life

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Named Entities

  • sara

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background purple hair figures
  • red Dylan purple And cyan sara
  • yellow BMS green 4 blue Life

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Text overlays change across frames: top row displays 'Dylan', 'And', 'sara'; bottom row displays 'BMS', '4', 'Life'.
  • quarantined composition: text overlays in top and bottom rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout with two rows of repeated figures
  • quarantined animation: text elements change across frames: 'Dylan'/'And'/'sara' replace each other in top row; 'BMS'/'4'/'Life' replace each other in bottom row

Visible Text

  • Dylan
  • And
  • sara
  • BMS
  • 4
  • Life

Visually Supported Entities

  • sara

Wordwall

  • green background
  • purple hair
  • light skin tones
  • red 'Dylan'
  • purple 'And'
  • cyan 'sara'
  • yellow 'BMS'
  • green '4'
  • blue 'Life'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902201252121295735322
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
8.4 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/de/de3565fb77a0c3a612f54ecac2abb0b6ad5a815a4f049251c3c677cd41945441.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Archive ID
de3565fb77a0c3a6
SHA-256
de3565fb77a0c3a612f54ecac2abb0b6ad5a815a4f049251c3c677cd41945441
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
September 1, 2026 at 20:55 UTC
Run
15975
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000046

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 11, 2026 at 16:45 UTC
Run
1284
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:53 UTC
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1140
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated green background with repeated purple-haired figures; text overlays change across frames.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 23:50 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,664 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,166, response 689

Review tags

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  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • blocky fonts (style, 0.80)
  • early digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • text elements change across frames: 'Dylan'/'And'/'sara' replace each other in top ; 'BMS'/'4'/'Life' replace each other in bottom

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change across frames: top displays 'Dylan', 'And', 'sara'; bottom displays 'BMS', '4', 'Life'

Colors

  • green
  • purple
  • red
  • cyan
  • yellow
  • blue
  • light skin tone

Composition

  • two of repeated figures
  • text overlays in top and bottom

Dense Caption

Green pixelated background features repeating stylized figures with purple hair and light skin tones. Text elements appear in distinct colors: red 'Dylan', purple 'And', cyan 'sara' in top row; yellow 'BMS', green '4', blue 'Life' in bottom row. All text uses blocky, outlined fonts typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated green background with repeated purple-haired figures; text overlays change across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • Dylan
  • BMS
  • 4
  • Life

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Named Entities

  • sara

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background purple hair figures
  • red Dylan purple And cyan sara
  • yellow BMS green 4 blue Life

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Text overlays change across frames: top row displays 'Dylan', 'And', 'sara'; bottom row displays 'BMS', '4', 'Life'.
  • quarantined composition: text overlays in top and bottom rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout with two rows of repeated figures
  • quarantined animation: text elements change across frames: 'Dylan'/'And'/'sara' replace each other in top row; 'BMS'/'4'/'Life' replace each other in bottom row

Style

  • pixelated
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  • early digital graphics

Subjects

  • repeating stylized figures with purple hair and light skin tones

Visible Text

  • Dylan
  • And
  • sara
  • BMS
  • 4
  • Life

Visually Supported Entities

  • sara

Wordwall

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  • purple hair
  • light skin tones
  • red 'Dylan'
  • purple 'And'
  • cyan 'sara'
  • yellow 'BMS'
  • green '4'
  • blue 'Life'
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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
200902201252121295735322
Archive entry
200902201252121295735322.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 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#200902201252121295735322.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902201252121295735322.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016