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Two side-by-side display identical text with a yellow star on blue background and blue star on yellow background, each showing static text

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Two side-by-side display identical text with a yellow star on blue background and blue star on yellow background, each showing static text

Two side-by-side display identical text with a yellow star on blue background and blue star on yellow background, each showing static text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two vertical
  • text centered top and bottom
  • star positioned center-right in blue section

Dense Caption

The image shows two vertical panels. Left panel has top half solid blue background with black pixelated text 'WMS BBY<3' and bottom half solid yellow background with same text; a small yellow five-pointed star is centered in the blue section. Right panel has uniform gray background with identical black pixelated text 'WMS BBY<3' across both sections. Both panels display static content without animation.

Description

  • Two side-by-side display identical text with a yellow star on blue background and blue star on yellow background, each showing static text

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200710261718251569834432
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • WMS BBY<3 star icon
  • blue yellow gray text icon
  • pixelated WMS BBY<3
  • two static icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Two side-by-side panels display identical text with a yellow star on blue background and blue star on yellow background, each panel showing static text.
  • quarantined composition: two vertical panels
  • quarantined retrieval: two panel static icon

Subjects

  • star

Visible Text

  • WMS BBY<3

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • yellow background
  • gray background
  • black pixelated text
  • five-pointed star
  • WMS BBY<3
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710261718251569834432
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
611 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e8/e876adaf1445e4abe17a16aa6b9e10b806683e94b63dd41da760cc054f899c76.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
e876adaf1445e4ab
SHA-256
e876adaf1445e4abe17a16aa6b9e10b806683e94b63dd41da760cc054f899c76
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:40 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.112990

OpenAI category scores

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Two side-by-side display identical text with a yellow star on blue background and blue star on yellow background, each showing static text

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 12:54 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,243 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 625

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • star (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • two vertical
  • text centered top and bottom
  • star positioned center-right in blue section

Dense Caption

The image shows two vertical panels. Left panel has top half solid blue background with black pixelated text 'WMS BBY<3' and bottom half solid yellow background with same text; a small yellow five-pointed star is centered in the blue section. Right panel has uniform gray background with identical black pixelated text 'WMS BBY<3' across both sections. Both panels display static content without animation.

Description

  • Two side-by-side display identical text with a yellow star on blue background and blue star on yellow background, each showing static text

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200710261718251569834432
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • WMS BBY<3 star icon
  • blue yellow gray text icon
  • pixelated WMS BBY<3
  • two static icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Two side-by-side panels display identical text with a yellow star on blue background and blue star on yellow background, each panel showing static text.
  • quarantined composition: two vertical panels
  • quarantined retrieval: two panel static icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • star

Visible Text

  • WMS BBY<3

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • yellow background
  • gray background
  • black pixelated text
  • five-pointed star
  • WMS BBY<3
  • static image
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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
200710261718251569834432
Archive entry
200710261718251569834432.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#200710261718251569834432.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710261718251569834432.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016