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Four quadrants with zebra stripes in pink, green, blue, and yellow, each containing text: 'i <3', 'cheer', 'lead', 'ing!', and a smiley face.

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Four quadrants with zebra stripes in pink, green, blue, and yellow, each containing text: 'i <3', 'cheer', 'lead', 'ing!', and a smiley face.

Four quadrants with zebra stripes in pink, green, blue, and yellow, each containing text: 'i <3', 'cheer', 'lead', 'ing!', and a smiley face. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fro…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • quadrants
  • text-centered
  • uniform background stripes

Dense Caption

The image is a 2x2 grid of quadrants with zebra-stripe backgrounds. Top-left quadrant: pink background with black stripes, white text 'i <3' in a black outline. Top-right quadrant: bright green background with black stripes, white text 'cheer' in a black outline. Bottom-left quadrant: blue background with black stripes, white text 'lead' in a black outline. Bottom-right quadrant: yellow background with black stripes, white text 'ing!' in a black outline and a white smiley face ':)' in a black outline. All text uses a pixelated font. The image is static.

Description

Four quadrants with zebra stripes in pink, green, blue, and yellow, each containing text: 'i <3', 'cheer', 'lead', 'ing!', and a smiley face.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090723124247586117465

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink green blue yellow zebra stripes
  • i <3 cheer lead ing smiley
  • text fragments
  • pixelated font smiley face
  • cheer lead ing smiley
  • zipped text
  • striped background text
  • text fragments smiley face

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; image is static
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: zipped text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: text fragments 2x2 grid

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

  • i <3
  • cheer
  • lead
  • ing!
  • :)

Wordwall

  • pink zebra stripes
  • green zebra stripes
  • blue zebra stripes
  • yellow zebra stripes
  • i <3 text
  • cheer text
  • lead text
  • ing! text
  • smiley face text
  • pixelated font
  • black outlines
  • white text
  • striped backgrounds
  • text fragments

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090723124247586117465
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.1 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 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
17db0bda1358f0cf
SHA-256
17db0bda1358f0cfebd46f2b6d8ffd8bb13a3a78e1e7a2d9ee141e43f86d9818
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:08 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089286

OpenAI category scores

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Four quadrants with zebra stripes in pink, green, blue, and yellow, each containing text: 'i <3', 'cheer', 'lead', 'ing!', and a smiley face.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,540 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 823

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • striped (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • green
  • blue
  • yellow
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • quadrants
  • text-centered
  • uniform background stripes

Dense Caption

The image is a 2x2 grid of quadrants with zebra-stripe backgrounds. Top-left quadrant: pink background with black stripes, white text 'i <3' in a black outline. Top-right quadrant: bright green background with black stripes, white text 'cheer' in a black outline. Bottom-left quadrant: blue background with black stripes, white text 'lead' in a black outline. Bottom-right quadrant: yellow background with black stripes, white text 'ing!' in a black outline and a white smiley face ':)' in a black outline. All text uses a pixelated font. The image is static.

Description

Four quadrants with zebra stripes in pink, green, blue, and yellow, each containing text: 'i <3', 'cheer', 'lead', 'ing!', and a smiley face.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090723124247586117465

Mood

  • cheerful
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink green blue yellow zebra stripes
  • i <3 cheer lead ing smiley
  • text fragments
  • pixelated font smiley face
  • cheer lead ing smiley
  • zipped text
  • striped background text
  • text fragments smiley face

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; image is static
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: zipped text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: text fragments 2x2 grid

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
  • text-based
  • striped

Visible Text

  • i <3
  • cheer
  • lead
  • ing!
  • :)

Wordwall

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  • green zebra stripes
  • blue zebra stripes
  • yellow zebra stripes
  • i <3 text
  • cheer text
  • lead text
  • ing! text
  • smiley face text
  • pixelated font
  • black outlines
  • white text
  • striped backgrounds
  • text fragments
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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
20090723124247586117465
Archive entry
20090723124247586117465.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#20090723124247586117465.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090723124247586117465.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016