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Green background displays text and pixelated icons with red and brown symbols changing position.

Green background displays text and pixelated icons with red and brown symbols changing position. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy I…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • one brown symbol moves from left to right among four red symbols

Animation Summary

  • The brown symbol shifts position from left to right among four red symbols.

Composition

  • text stacked vertically above symbols
  • symbols aligned horizontally

Dense Caption

Bright green background. Black pixelated text reads "Fabio" at top, "El Salvador" below it, then "Meiliger", then "x333333". Below the text are five small symbols: four red asterisks and one brown asterisk. In the second view, the middle symbol shifts from left to right between the two red asterisks.

Description

  • Green background displays text and pixelated icons with red and brown symbols changing position.

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
  • 20090401170830706312461

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background pixelated text
  • Fabio El Salvador Meiliger x333333
  • red and brown asterisks shift

Visible Text

  • Fabio
  • El Salvador
  • Meiliger
  • x333333

Wordwall

  • green background
  • black pixelated text
  • Fabio
  • El Salvador
  • Meiliger
  • x333333
  • red symbols
  • brown symbol
  • symbol shift

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090401170830706312461
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
icons/e0/e004f6416e591530007efe9190f4fde31ccd150c36fbc6089379e3fbcf61f93f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC
Archive ID
e004f6416e591530
SHA-256
e004f6416e591530007efe9190f4fde31ccd150c36fbc6089379e3fbcf61f93f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:54 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087370

OpenAI category scores

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Green background displays text and pixelated icons with red and brown symbols changing position.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 05:05 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,698 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 636

Review tags

  • symbol shifts position (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • asterisk symbols (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • symbol shifts position

Animation

  • one brown symbol moves from left to right among four red symbols

Animation Summary

  • The brown symbol shifts position from left to right among four red symbols.

Colors

  • green
  • black
  • red
  • brown

Composition

  • text stacked vertically above symbols
  • symbols aligned horizontally

Dense Caption

Bright green background. Black pixelated text reads "Fabio" at top, "El Salvador" below it, then "Meiliger", then "x333333". Below the text are five small symbols: four red asterisks and one brown asterisk. In the second view, the middle symbol shifts from left to right between the two red asterisks.

Description

  • Green background displays text and pixelated icons with red and brown symbols changing position.

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
  • 20090401170830706312461

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background pixelated text
  • Fabio El Salvador Meiliger x333333
  • red and brown asterisks shift

Objects

  • asterisk symbols

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • Fabio
  • El Salvador
  • Meiliger
  • x333333

Wordwall

  • green background
  • black pixelated text
  • Fabio
  • El Salvador
  • Meiliger
  • x333333
  • red symbols
  • brown symbol
  • symbol shift
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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
20090401170830706312461
Archive entry
20090401170830706312461.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#20090401170830706312461.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090401170830706312461.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016