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Blue background with white text and symbols, showing 'Snipey' in a stylized font surrounded by arrow-like brackets.

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Blue background with white text and symbols, showing 'Snipey' in a stylized font surrounded by arrow-like brackets.

Blue background with white text and symbols, showing 'Snipey' in a stylized font surrounded by arrow-like brackets. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes across observations

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical bracket arrangement

Dense Caption

The image displays a blue textured background. White pixelated text reads "Snipey" flanked by the characters "^" on the left and "]" on the right. Four white arrow-like bracket symbols ("<--->") are positioned above and below the text, two in each row. The top-left section shows this full arrangement; the bottom-left repeats it with a slightly different blue texture; the top-right is identical to the top-left but partially obscured by a gray rectangle on the right.

Description

  • Blue background with white text and symbols, showing 'Snipey' in a stylized font surrounded by arrow-like brackets.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snipey blue background
  • snipey white text brackets
  • blue pixelated snipey icon
  • text-based buddy icon

Visible Text

  • Snipey
  • ^
  • ]

Visually Supported Entities

  • "Snipey" text

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • Snipey
  • ^ character
  • ] character
  • <--- > symbols
  • text arrangement

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080215092747777351779
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fd/fdc61e1e23e35eab433c9791d575851f3b457792580b1b0a801219b70565770c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC
Archive ID
fdc61e1e23e35eab
SHA-256
fdc61e1e23e35eab433c9791d575851f3b457792580b1b0a801219b70565770c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:15 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089431

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with white text and symbols, showing 'Snipey' in a stylized font surrounded by arrow-like brackets.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 22:03 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,589 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 599

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • symbols (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stylized font (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • snipey text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes across observations

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical bracket arrangement

Dense Caption

The image displays a blue textured background. White pixelated text reads "Snipey" flanked by the characters "^" on the left and "]" on the right. Four white arrow-like bracket symbols ("<--->") are positioned above and below the text, two in each row. The top-left section shows this full arrangement; the bottom-left repeats it with a slightly different blue texture; the top-right is identical to the top-left but partially obscured by a gray rectangle on the right.

Description

  • Blue background with white text and symbols, showing 'Snipey' in a stylized font surrounded by arrow-like brackets.

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snipey blue background
  • snipey white text brackets
  • blue pixelated snipey icon
  • text-based buddy icon

Objects

  • <--- > symbols

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • stylized font

Subjects

  • "Snipey" text

Visible Text

  • Snipey
  • ^
  • ]

Visually Supported Entities

  • "Snipey" text

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • Snipey
  • ^ character
  • ] character
  • <--- > symbols
  • text arrangement
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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
20080215092747777351779
Archive entry
20080215092747777351779.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 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#20080215092747777351779.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080215092747777351779.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016