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Blue background with yellow pixelated border and repeated black text reading "8/21/08" and "tommy!!!" in four quadrants.

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Blue background with yellow pixelated border and repeated black text reading "8/21/08" and "tommy!!!" in four quadrants.

Blue background with yellow pixelated border and repeated black text reading "8/21/08" and "tommy!!!" in four quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical quadrants
  • central star shape
  • repeated text elements

Dense Caption

The image displays a blue background with a yellow, jagged, pixelated border. Four identical sections contain the date "8/21/08" in dark gray or black pixelated text at top and bottom of each section, and the name "tommy!!!" in similar text below the date. The central area features a yellow, star-like pixel pattern with radiating lines. All elements are static; no animation is visible.

Description

  • Blue background with yellow pixelated border and repeated black text reading "8/21/08" and "tommy!!!" in four quadrants.

Identity Hypotheses

  • tommy

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

Named Entities

  • tommy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 8/21/08 tommy
  • blue yellow pixelated text
  • four quadrants 8/21/08 tommy
  • pixelated border star pattern

Subjects

  • border

Visible Text

  • 8/21/08
  • tommy!!!

Visually Supported Entities

  • tommy

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • yellow border
  • 8/21/08 text
  • tommy!!! text
  • pixelated style
  • four quadrants

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080821121209161658678
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
ff9bcdf7f9399690
SHA-256
ff9bcdf7f9399690c40640f057589661e32abd91ed1e3763f89ec9828ac1dbb0
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:10 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.118718

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with yellow pixelated border and repeated black text reading "8/21/08" and "tommy!!!" in four quadrants.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 20:48 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,505 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 646

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • border (subject, 0.80)
  • star pattern (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • black

Composition

  • symmetrical quadrants
  • central star shape
  • repeated text elements

Dense Caption

The image displays a blue background with a yellow, jagged, pixelated border. Four identical sections contain the date "8/21/08" in dark gray or black pixelated text at top and bottom of each section, and the name "tommy!!!" in similar text below the date. The central area features a yellow, star-like pixel pattern with radiating lines. All elements are static; no animation is visible.

Description

  • Blue background with yellow pixelated border and repeated black text reading "8/21/08" and "tommy!!!" in four quadrants.

Identity Hypotheses

  • tommy

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

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Named Entities

  • tommy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 8/21/08 tommy
  • blue yellow pixelated text
  • four quadrants 8/21/08 tommy
  • pixelated border star pattern

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • border
  • star pattern

Visible Text

  • 8/21/08
  • tommy!!!

Visually Supported Entities

  • tommy

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • yellow border
  • 8/21/08 text
  • tommy!!! text
  • pixelated style
  • four quadrants
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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
20080821121209161658678
Archive entry
20080821121209161658678.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#20080821121209161658678.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080821121209161658678.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016