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A red background displays four identical text blocks with cyan names and a blue symbol changing across frames.

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A red background displays four identical text blocks with cyan names and a blue symbol changing across frames.

A red background displays four identical text blocks with cyan names and a blue symbol changing across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • symbol changes across frames

Animation Summary

  • The blue symbol next to 'Ellie' changes : heart, starburst, dotted circle, and no symbol

Composition

  • four identical text blocks
  • top-left
  • top-right
  • bottom-left
  • bottom-right

Dense Caption

Red background with cyan text reading 'Ellie', 'Elisa', 'Amelia', 'BFF' in four rows. Top-right frame shows a blue heart symbol next to 'Ellie'. Top-left frame shows a blue starburst symbol next to 'Ellie'. Bottom-left frame shows a blue dotted circle symbol next to 'Ellie'. Bottom-right frame shows no symbol next to 'Ellie'. All text and background colors remain consistent across frames.

Description

  • A red background displays four identical text blocks with cyan names and a blue symbol changing across frames.

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
  • 20100513003927485722728
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background cyan text Ellie Elisa Amelia BFF
  • blue heart symbol
  • blue starburst symbol
  • blue dotted circle symbol
  • text blocks with changing symbols
  • pixelated text blocks
  • four identical text blocks
  • symbol changes across frames

Objects

  • heart
  • starburst

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: The blue symbol next to 'Ellie' changes across four frames: heart, starburst, dotted circle, and no symbol.

Visible Text

  • Ellie
  • Elisa
  • Amelia
  • BFF

Wordwall

  • red background
  • cyan text
  • Ellie
  • Elisa
  • Amelia
  • BFF
  • blue heart
  • blue starburst
  • blue dotted circle
  • four identical text blocks

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100513003927485722728
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
336 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fb/fb5d987561ceb523395ebd28b663ebcd10ac4d4d3974f309295a037b05495ed5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC
Archive ID
fb5d987561ceb523
SHA-256
fb5d987561ceb523395ebd28b663ebcd10ac4d4d3974f309295a037b05495ed5
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:08 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081133

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A red background displays four identical text blocks with cyan names and a blue symbol changing across frames.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 19:02 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,700 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 732

Review tags

  • symbol changes (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dotted circle (object, 0.80)
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  • starburst (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • symbol changes

Animation

  • symbol changes across frames

Animation Summary

  • The blue symbol next to 'Ellie' changes : heart, starburst, dotted circle, and no symbol

Colors

  • red
  • cyan
  • blue

Composition

  • four identical text blocks
  • top-left
  • top-right
  • bottom-left
  • bottom-right

Dense Caption

Red background with cyan text reading 'Ellie', 'Elisa', 'Amelia', 'BFF' in four rows. Top-right frame shows a blue heart symbol next to 'Ellie'. Top-left frame shows a blue starburst symbol next to 'Ellie'. Bottom-left frame shows a blue dotted circle symbol next to 'Ellie'. Bottom-right frame shows no symbol next to 'Ellie'. All text and background colors remain consistent across frames.

Description

  • A red background displays four identical text blocks with cyan names and a blue symbol changing across frames.

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
  • 20100513003927485722728
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • blue heart symbol
  • blue starburst symbol
  • blue dotted circle symbol
  • text blocks with changing symbols
  • pixelated text blocks
  • four identical text blocks
  • symbol changes across frames

Objects

  • heart
  • starburst
  • dotted circle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: The blue symbol next to 'Ellie' changes across four frames: heart, starburst, dotted circle, and no symbol.

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky

Subjects

  • text
  • symbols

Visible Text

  • Ellie
  • Elisa
  • Amelia
  • BFF

Wordwall

  • red background
  • cyan text
  • Ellie
  • Elisa
  • Amelia
  • BFF
  • blue heart
  • blue starburst
  • blue dotted circle
  • four identical text blocks
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:41 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20100513003927485722728
Archive entry
20100513003927485722728.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 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#20100513003927485722728.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100513003927485722728.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016