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Static image with six blue 'LIVE' text elements on a light cyan background, each positioned above or below yellow rectangular blocks.

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Static image with six blue 'LIVE' text elements on a light cyan background, each positioned above or below yellow rectangular blocks.

Static image with six blue 'LIVE' text elements on a light cyan background, each positioned above or below yellow rectangular blocks. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • irregular
  • six text elements
  • horizontal yellow blocks

Dense Caption

Six instances of the word 'LIVE' in solid blue pixelated font appear across the frame. Three are centered horizontally at top and middle positions; three others occupy bottom-left, center-bottom, and right-bottom areas. Each text instance is placed directly above or below a single horizontal yellow rectangular block on a uniform light cyan background. The layout forms an irregular grid with no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Static image with six blue 'LIVE' text elements on a light cyan background, each positioned above or below yellow rectangular blocks.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080519183823803942654

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue live text cyan background yellow blocks
  • six live texts irregular
  • pixelated live icons cyan yellow blue

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: irregular grid layout
  • quarantined composition: irregular grid
  • quarantined retrieval: six live texts irregular grid

Visible Text

  • LIVE

Wordwall

  • blue 'LIVE' text
  • light cyan background
  • yellow rectangles
  • pixelated font
  • six text instances
  • irregular

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080519183823803942654
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
480 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fa/fabcd433b7af41f32969bdecdf0147fda1c424ce343faf2adc0c2397c8362881.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC
Archive ID
fabcd433b7af41f3
SHA-256
fabcd433b7af41f32969bdecdf0147fda1c424ce343faf2adc0c2397c8362881
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
0.089768

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Static image with six blue 'LIVE' text elements on a light cyan background, each positioned above or below yellow rectangular blocks.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 17:06 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,683 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,159, response 644

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light cyan (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • yellow rectangles (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • light cyan
  • blue
  • yellow

Composition

  • irregular
  • six text elements
  • horizontal yellow blocks

Dense Caption

Six instances of the word 'LIVE' in solid blue pixelated font appear across the frame. Three are centered horizontally at top and middle positions; three others occupy bottom-left, center-bottom, and right-bottom areas. Each text instance is placed directly above or below a single horizontal yellow rectangular block on a uniform light cyan background. The layout forms an irregular grid with no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Static image with six blue 'LIVE' text elements on a light cyan background, each positioned above or below yellow rectangular blocks.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080519183823803942654

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue live text cyan background yellow blocks
  • six live texts irregular
  • pixelated live icons cyan yellow blue

Objects

  • yellow rectangles

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: irregular grid layout
  • quarantined composition: irregular grid
  • quarantined retrieval: six live texts irregular grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • minimalist

Visible Text

  • LIVE

Wordwall

  • blue 'LIVE' text
  • light cyan background
  • yellow rectangles
  • pixelated font
  • six text instances
  • irregular
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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
20080519183823803942654
Archive entry
20080519183823803942654.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#20080519183823803942654.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080519183823803942654.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016