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Blue background with repeated white pixelated text 'ABBY' and star-shaped icons connected by dotted lines.

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Blue background with repeated white pixelated text 'ABBY' and star-shaped icons connected by dotted lines.

Blue background with repeated white pixelated text 'ABBY' and star-shaped icons connected by dotted lines. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Composition

  • repeating pattern
  • like arrangement of text and icons

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. Six instances of the word 'ABBY' in white, blocky, pixelated font arranged in two rows of three. Each instance is positioned below a small white star icon; each star connects to its respective text via vertical dotted lines composed of four dots. Additional stars and dot connections appear at top-left, bottom-right, and other scattered positions on the blue background.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated white pixelated text 'ABBY' and star-shaped icons connected by dotted lines.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white abby stars
  • pixelated abby text dotted lines
  • repeating abby star pattern blue
  • white pixelated abby dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid-like arrangement of text and icons

Visible Text

  • ABBY

Visually Supported Entities

  • ABBY

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white pixelated 'ABBY'
  • star icons
  • dotted line connections
  • six instances of text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801200925172066276297
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
560 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/de/de4ec9ff7eae190d3528bae276238d2e44ec64c4ac1011931805648a8e47a27c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Archive ID
de4ec9ff7eae190d
SHA-256
de4ec9ff7eae190d3528bae276238d2e44ec64c4ac1011931805648a8e47a27c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:53 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083950

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with repeated white pixelated text 'ABBY' and star-shaped icons connected by dotted lines.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 11:47 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,389 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,167, response 577

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • static image (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Colors

  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • repeating pattern
  • like arrangement of text and icons

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. Six instances of the word 'ABBY' in white, blocky, pixelated font arranged in two rows of three. Each instance is positioned below a small white star icon; each star connects to its respective text via vertical dotted lines composed of four dots. Additional stars and dot connections appear at top-left, bottom-right, and other scattered positions on the blue background.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated white pixelated text 'ABBY' and star-shaped icons connected by dotted lines.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white abby stars
  • pixelated abby text dotted lines
  • repeating abby star pattern blue
  • white pixelated abby dots

Objects

  • dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid-like arrangement of text and icons

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • ABBY

Visually Supported Entities

  • ABBY

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white pixelated 'ABBY'
  • star icons
  • dotted line connections
  • six instances of text
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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
200801200925172066276297
Archive entry
200801200925172066276297.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 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#200801200925172066276297.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801200925172066276297.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016