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A static image with a pixelated tie-dye pattern on the left and solid red background on the right containing black text "HI".

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A static image with a pixelated tie-dye pattern on the left and solid red background on the right containing black text "HI".

A static image with a pixelated tie-dye pattern on the left and solid red background on the right containing black text "HI". Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical split
  • left: radial burst
  • right: solid background

Dense Caption

The image is split vertically into two distinct sections. The left section features a pixelated tie-dye pattern with blended pastel colors including light blue, pink, and white, forming a radial burst effect. The right section is a solid bright red background. In the upper right corner of the red section, there is black text "HI" rendered in a bold, sans-serif font. The image has no visible motion or animation.

Description

  • A static image with a pixelated tie-dye pattern on the left and solid red background on the right containing black text "HI".

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • tie-dye pattern red background HI text
  • pixelated burst red HI
  • pastel tie-dye HI text
  • red background HI text

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • HI

Wordwall

  • pixelated tie-dye pattern
  • pastel colors
  • radial burst effect
  • solid red background
  • black text "HI"

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090123130800282348460
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f8/f809d97543524f580861210399dc6c29142c3eb839e8a6193997191a1e10ed33.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC
Archive ID
f809d97543524f58
SHA-256
f809d97543524f580861210399dc6c29142c3eb839e8a6193997191a1e10ed33
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:06 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.115634

OpenAI category scores

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A static image with a pixelated tie-dye pattern on the left and solid red background on the right containing black text "HI".

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 19:37 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,446 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 644

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • bright red (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay (style, 0.80)
  • tie dye (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • pink
  • white
  • bright red
  • black

Composition

  • vertical split
  • left: radial burst
  • right: solid background

Dense Caption

The image is split vertically into two distinct sections. The left section features a pixelated tie-dye pattern with blended pastel colors including light blue, pink, and white, forming a radial burst effect. The right section is a solid bright red background. In the upper right corner of the red section, there is black text "HI" rendered in a bold, sans-serif font. The image has no visible motion or animation.

Description

  • A static image with a pixelated tie-dye pattern on the left and solid red background on the right containing black text "HI".

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • tie-dye pattern red background HI text
  • pixelated burst red HI
  • pastel tie-dye HI text
  • red background HI text

Style

  • pixelated
  • tie-dye
  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • HI

Wordwall

  • pixelated tie-dye pattern
  • pastel colors
  • radial burst effect
  • solid red background
  • black text "HI"
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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
20090123130800282348460
Archive entry
20090123130800282348460.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 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#20090123130800282348460.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090123130800282348460.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016