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Blue background with white pixelated text repeating 'BLUE' in three , scattered white dots resembling stars, and a gray rectangle at bottom right

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Blue background with white pixelated text repeating 'BLUE' in three , scattered white dots resembling stars, and a gray rectangle at bottom right

Blue background with white pixelated text repeating 'BLUE' in three , scattered white dots resembling stars, and a gray rectangle at bottom right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ico…

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Source terms

Composition

  • three horizontal text
  • star-like dot distribution
  • corner rectangle

Dense Caption

Solid blue background contains multiple rows of white pixelated capital letters spelling 'BLUE', repeated across the image. White dot pixels are distributed as small star-like speckles throughout the blue field. A solid light gray rectangular shape occupies the lower-right corner. The text appears in three horizontal lines: top row reads 'BLUE BLUE BLUE BLUE', middle row reads 'BLUE BLUE BLUE BLUE' with periods between each word, bottom row reads 'BLUE BLUE BLUE BLUE'. All elements are static.

Description

Blue background with white pixelated text repeating 'BLUE' in three , scattered white dots resembling stars, and a gray rectangle at bottom right

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
  • 200805180815101719674405

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background blue text star dots gray rectangle
  • pixelated blue white gray text stars
  • three blue text with periods
  • text-based icon blue stars gray corner

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with white pixelated text repeating 'BLUE' in three rows, scattered white dots resembling stars, and a gray rectangle at bottom right.
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows of text
  • quarantined composition: three horizontal text rows
  • quarantined retrieval: three rows blue text with periods

Visible Text

  • BLUE

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'BLUE' repeated
  • three of text
  • white star-like dots
  • gray rectangle corner

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805180815101719674405
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ed/ed83ee7a9662a5fa4d34cfdf32239e2ff30ab3ba69858c632d95b056006a62f5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC
Archive ID
ed83ee7a9662a5fa
SHA-256
ed83ee7a9662a5fa4d34cfdf32239e2ff30ab3ba69858c632d95b056006a62f5
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:01 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089603

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with white pixelated text repeating 'BLUE' in three , scattered white dots resembling stars, and a gray rectangle at bottom right

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 16:23 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,974 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,122, response 647

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • three horizontal text
  • star-like dot distribution
  • corner rectangle

Dense Caption

Solid blue background contains multiple rows of white pixelated capital letters spelling 'BLUE', repeated across the image. White dot pixels are distributed as small star-like speckles throughout the blue field. A solid light gray rectangular shape occupies the lower-right corner. The text appears in three horizontal lines: top row reads 'BLUE BLUE BLUE BLUE', middle row reads 'BLUE BLUE BLUE BLUE' with periods between each word, bottom row reads 'BLUE BLUE BLUE BLUE'. All elements are static.

Description

Blue background with white pixelated text repeating 'BLUE' in three , scattered white dots resembling stars, and a gray rectangle at bottom right

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
  • 200805180815101719674405

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background blue text star dots gray rectangle
  • pixelated blue white gray text stars
  • three blue text with periods
  • text-based icon blue stars gray corner

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with white pixelated text repeating 'BLUE' in three rows, scattered white dots resembling stars, and a gray rectangle at bottom right.
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows of text
  • quarantined composition: three horizontal text rows
  • quarantined retrieval: three rows blue text with periods

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • BLUE

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'BLUE' repeated
  • three of text
  • white star-like dots
  • gray rectangle corner
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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
200805180815101719674405
Archive entry
200805180815101719674405.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 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#200805180815101719674405.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805180815101719674405.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016