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Blue background with white light flares and dark text reading 'yo homes :(' in pixelated font.

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Blue background with white light flares and dark text reading 'yo homes :(' in pixelated font.

Blue background with white light flares and dark text reading 'yo homes :(' in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • light flare shifts position

Animation Summary

  • Light flare shifts position between frames.

Composition

  • centered text
  • light flare shifts

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated images arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each image features a light blue background with a bright white light flare. Dark blue text reads 'yo homes :' in a pixelated font, with the colon forming a simple smiley face. The text is centered vertically and horizontally in each quadrant. The light flare position shifts slightly between images, creating a subtle animation effect.

Description

  • Blue background with white light flares and dark text reading 'yo homes :(' in pixelated font.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • 20091116140103120097574

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yo homes colon smiley
  • light blue text animation
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • animation
  • blue background light flare
  • yo homes animation
  • text-based buddy icon
  • light blue background animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • light flare shifts between images
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid animation

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • yo homes :(

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • white light flare
  • dark blue text
  • yo homes
  • colon smiley
  • pixelated font
  • centered text
  • subtle animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091116140103120097574
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ff/ffe154d823377b99bdedd4971d61c4e7dd59a59e8888967cd14768793c0f610f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
ffe154d823377b99
SHA-256
ffe154d823377b99bdedd4971d61c4e7dd59a59e8888967cd14768793c0f610f
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
0.074312

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.930606onnx/unsafe0.074312onnx/nsfw0.037613onnx/nsfl0.036699
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Blue background with white light flares and dark text reading 'yo homes :(' in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 20:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,239 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 794

Review tags

  • light flare shifts (action, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • light flare shifts position (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • light flare (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • light flare shifts

Animation

  • light flare shifts position

Animation Summary

  • Light flare shifts position between frames.

Colors

  • light blue
  • white
  • dark blue

Composition

  • centered text
  • light flare shifts

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated images arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each image features a light blue background with a bright white light flare. Dark blue text reads 'yo homes :' in a pixelated font, with the colon forming a simple smiley face. The text is centered vertically and horizontally in each quadrant. The light flare position shifts slightly between images, creating a subtle animation effect.

Description

  • Blue background with white light flares and dark text reading 'yo homes :(' in pixelated font.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • 20091116140103120097574

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • casual

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yo homes colon smiley
  • light blue text animation
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • animation
  • blue background light flare
  • yo homes animation
  • text-based buddy icon
  • light blue background animation

Objects

  • text
  • light flare

Preprocessing Notes

  • light flare shifts between images
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid animation

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text
  • light flare

Visible Text

  • yo homes :(

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • white light flare
  • dark blue text
  • yo homes
  • colon smiley
  • pixelated font
  • centered text
  • subtle animation
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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
20091116140103120097574
Archive entry
20091116140103120097574.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#20091116140103120097574.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20091116140103120097574.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016