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Pixelated blue background with pink text and symbols, featuring animated black pixel clusters near repeated phrases.

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Pixelated blue background with pink text and symbols, featuring animated black pixel clusters near repeated phrases.

Pixelated blue background with pink text and symbols, featuring animated black pixel clusters near repeated phrases. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • black pixel clusters move from top-right to center between frames

Animation Summary

  • Black pixel clusters animate from top-right to center between frames; text and background remain static.

Composition

  • vertical repetition of text phrases
  • two per frame

Dense Caption

Blue background. Pink text: 'I Baby joicl Baby joic', '*~!ben!~*', '<3'. Black pixel clusters animate at top-right (first frame) and center (second frame). Text repeats vertically; two instances of each phrase per column. Pixelated rendering style. No visible clothing, props, or human subjects beyond text/symbols.

Description

  • Pixelated blue background with pink text and symbols, featuring animated black pixel clusters near repeated phrases.

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
  • 2008081920212820165448

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pink black animated pixels
  • 'I Baby joicl Baby joic' '*~!ben!~*' '<3' vertical repetition
  • pixelated text-based animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two columns per frame

Visible Text

  • I Baby joicl Baby joic
  • <3
  • *~!ben!~*

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • pink text
  • black animated pixels
  • 'I Baby joicl Baby joic'
  • '*~!ben!~*'
  • '<3'
  • pixelated rendering
  • vertical repetition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008081920212820165448
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f8/f89960704ab46c6f108c765e93235e3efeafb9cb9ac67eff6166d0e806dbe38e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
f89960704ab46c6f
SHA-256
f89960704ab46c6f108c765e93235e3efeafb9cb9ac67eff6166d0e806dbe38e
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
0.104414

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated blue background with pink text and symbols, featuring animated black pixel clusters near repeated phrases.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 20:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,890 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,103, response 611

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • black pixel clusters animate at top-right and center

Animation

  • black pixel clusters move from top-right to center between frames

Animation Summary

  • Black pixel clusters animate from top-right to center between frames; text and background remain static.

Colors

  • blue
  • pink
  • black

Composition

  • vertical repetition of text phrases
  • two per frame

Dense Caption

Blue background. Pink text: 'I Baby joicl Baby joic', '*~!ben!~*', '<3'. Black pixel clusters animate at top-right (first frame) and center (second frame). Text repeats vertically; two instances of each phrase per column. Pixelated rendering style. No visible clothing, props, or human subjects beyond text/symbols.

Description

  • Pixelated blue background with pink text and symbols, featuring animated black pixel clusters near repeated phrases.

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
  • 2008081920212820165448

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pink black animated pixels
  • 'I Baby joicl Baby joic' '*~!ben!~*' '<3' vertical repetition
  • pixelated text-based animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two columns per frame

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • I Baby joicl Baby joic
  • <3
  • *~!ben!~*

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • pink text
  • black animated pixels
  • 'I Baby joicl Baby joic'
  • '*~!ben!~*'
  • '<3'
  • pixelated rendering
  • vertical repetition
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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
2008081920212820165448
Archive entry
2008081920212820165448.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#2008081920212820165448.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008081920212820165448.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016