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Blue background with red text 'laurie' and 'bflaede' repeated in , green pixel noise scattered across the image, gray rectangle in bottom-right corner

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Blue background with red text 'laurie' and 'bflaede' repeated in , green pixel noise scattered across the image, gray rectangle in bottom-right corner

Blue background with red text 'laurie' and 'bflaede' repeated in , green pixel noise scattered across the image, gray rectangle in bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM budd…

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Source terms

Composition

  • like text arrangement
  • solid color background
  • corner rectangle

Dense Caption

Blue background with scattered green pixel noise. Red text 'laurie' appears at the top of each column. Below 'laurie', red text 'bflaede' appears in the second row. Below 'bflaede', red text 'lend' appears in the third row. Below 'lend', red text 'bflaede' appears in the fourth row. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner. The text and noise patterns are identical across all visible sections of the image.

Description

Blue background with red text 'laurie' and 'bflaede' repeated in , green pixel noise scattered across the image, gray rectangle in bottom-right corner

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

  • blue background red text
  • laurie bflaede lend
  • pixelated text
  • gray rectangle corner

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with red text 'laurie' and 'bflaede' repeated in rows, green pixel noise scattered across the image, gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.
  • quarantined composition: grid-like text arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid

Visible Text

  • laurie
  • bflaede
  • lend

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • green pixel noise
  • red text
  • laurie
  • bflaede
  • lend
  • gray rectangle
  • repeated text
  • pixelated
  • uniform layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806191746231534537039
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f8/f8d31285f34eed39e3b325a5505562a787fcdcab1bf3d7329cfb5a5a23500702.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC
Archive ID
f8d31285f34eed39
SHA-256
f8d31285f34eed39e3b325a5505562a787fcdcab1bf3d7329cfb5a5a23500702
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:07 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.069847

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with red text 'laurie' and 'bflaede' repeated in , green pixel noise scattered across the image, gray rectangle in bottom-right corner

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 07:16 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,832 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,167, response 682

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • green
  • red
  • gray

Composition

  • like text arrangement
  • solid color background
  • corner rectangle

Dense Caption

Blue background with scattered green pixel noise. Red text 'laurie' appears at the top of each column. Below 'laurie', red text 'bflaede' appears in the second row. Below 'bflaede', red text 'lend' appears in the third row. Below 'lend', red text 'bflaede' appears in the fourth row. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner. The text and noise patterns are identical across all visible sections of the image.

Description

Blue background with red text 'laurie' and 'bflaede' repeated in , green pixel noise scattered across the image, gray rectangle in bottom-right corner

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

  • blue background red text
  • laurie bflaede lend
  • pixelated text
  • gray rectangle corner

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with red text 'laurie' and 'bflaede' repeated in rows, green pixel noise scattered across the image, gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.
  • quarantined composition: grid-like text arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • repetitive

Visible Text

  • laurie
  • bflaede
  • lend

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • green pixel noise
  • red text
  • laurie
  • bflaede
  • lend
  • gray rectangle
  • repeated text
  • pixelated
  • uniform layout
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TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200806191746231534537039
Archive entry
200806191746231534537039.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 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#200806191746231534537039.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806191746231534537039.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016