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~BAM~ text in black pixelated font on purple background with white circular shapes, static image.

~BAM~ text in black pixelated font on purple background with white circular shapes, static image. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal text alignment
  • scattered circular shapes

Dense Caption

~BAM~ text appears twice horizontally centered; each instance uses bold black blocky pixels with small ~ symbols flanking it. Background is solid bright purple. White circles of varying sizes are scattered across the frame: two large overlapping ones near top-left and top-right, one medium-sized circle below left, one large irregularly shaped circle in center-bottom, and smaller circles to right and bottom-right. All elements remain fixed; no visible motion or change between observations.

Description

  • ~BAM~ text in black pixelated font on purple background with white circular shapes, static image.

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
  • 200709160651351824991075

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ~BAM~ purple background white circles
  • ~BAM~ pixel art text
  • purple background black text white shapes
  • two ~BAM~ instances

Visible Text

  • ~BAM~

Wordwall

  • ~BAM~ text
  • black pixelated font
  • purple background
  • white circular shapes
  • two ~BAM~ instances

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709160651351824991075
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fa/fa91e0721af65ece14e240603976a544ba8be30e6e60572c08e2fd96d1cf9801.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
Archive ID
fa91e0721af65ece
SHA-256
fa91e0721af65ece14e240603976a544ba8be30e6e60572c08e2fd96d1cf9801
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
0.139924

OpenAI category scores

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~BAM~ text in black pixelated font on purple background with white circular shapes, static image.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 02:33 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,611 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 617

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • white circles (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • horizontal text alignment
  • scattered circular shapes

Dense Caption

~BAM~ text appears twice horizontally centered; each instance uses bold black blocky pixels with small ~ symbols flanking it. Background is solid bright purple. White circles of varying sizes are scattered across the frame: two large overlapping ones near top-left and top-right, one medium-sized circle below left, one large irregularly shaped circle in center-bottom, and smaller circles to right and bottom-right. All elements remain fixed; no visible motion or change between observations.

Description

  • ~BAM~ text in black pixelated font on purple background with white circular shapes, static image.

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
  • 200709160651351824991075

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ~BAM~ purple background white circles
  • ~BAM~ pixel art text
  • purple background black text white shapes
  • two ~BAM~ instances

Objects

  • white circles

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • static

Visible Text

  • ~BAM~

Wordwall

  • ~BAM~ text
  • black pixelated font
  • purple background
  • white circular shapes
  • two ~BAM~ instances
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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
200709160651351824991075
Archive entry
200709160651351824991075.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 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#200709160651351824991075.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709160651351824991075.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016