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Pixelated image with blue gradient background showing four balloons and text reading 'float away' in white block letters.

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Pixelated image with blue gradient background showing four balloons and text reading 'float away' in white block letters.

Pixelated image with blue gradient background showing four balloons and text reading 'float away' in white block letters. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text above balloons
  • balloons arranged in cluster
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

Blue gradient background transitions from dark blue at top to light blue at bottom. Four pixelated balloons: orange balloon with yellow top, light green balloon, light purple balloon, and light blue balloon. Balloons have red bases. White text 'float away' in blocky pixel font positioned above balloons. All elements rendered in low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering and color blending. Balloons appear to be floating upward.

Description

  • Pixelated image with blue gradient background showing four balloons and text reading 'float away' in white block letters.

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
  • 200707291936111352863863
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • balloons float away
  • pixel art balloons
  • blue gradient balloon image
  • float away text
  • four colored balloons
  • low-resolution balloon art
  • dithered balloon background
  • white text blue background

Style

  • dithering

Visible Text

  • float away

Wordwall

  • blue gradient background
  • four balloons
  • orange balloon
  • light green balloon
  • light purple balloon
  • light blue balloon
  • red balloon bases
  • white text
  • float away
  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • dithering
  • color blending
  • floating balloons

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200707291936111352863863
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e3/e365bd4f8bd1d77711fd1b33c5d6a18aabfec935c0a774f494190affd6033192.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
e365bd4f8bd1d777
SHA-256
e365bd4f8bd1d77711fd1b33c5d6a18aabfec935c0a774f494190affd6033192
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:55 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076755

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image with blue gradient background showing four balloons and text reading 'float away' in white block letters.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 16:10 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,925 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 720

Review tags

  • floating (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • dreamy (mood, 0.80)
  • light (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • color blending (style, 0.80)
  • dithering (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • balloons (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • floating

Colors

  • blue
  • orange
  • yellow
  • light green
  • light purple
  • light blue
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • text above balloons
  • balloons arranged in cluster
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

Blue gradient background transitions from dark blue at top to light blue at bottom. Four pixelated balloons: orange balloon with yellow top, light green balloon, light purple balloon, and light blue balloon. Balloons have red bases. White text 'float away' in blocky pixel font positioned above balloons. All elements rendered in low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering and color blending. Balloons appear to be floating upward.

Description

  • Pixelated image with blue gradient background showing four balloons and text reading 'float away' in white block letters.

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
  • 200707291936111352863863
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • light
  • playful
  • dreamy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • balloons float away
  • pixel art balloons
  • blue gradient balloon image
  • float away text
  • four colored balloons
  • low-resolution balloon art
  • dithered balloon background
  • white text blue background

Objects

  • balloons

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • dithering
  • color blending

Subjects

  • balloons

Visible Text

  • float away

Wordwall

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  • four balloons
  • orange balloon
  • light green balloon
  • light purple balloon
  • light blue balloon
  • red balloon bases
  • white text
  • float away
  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • dithering
  • color blending
  • floating balloons
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:44 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200707291936111352863863
Archive entry
200707291936111352863863.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#200707291936111352863863.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200707291936111352863863.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016