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Pixelated image with purple background and blue circles, displaying pink text 'my icon is cooler than yours' repeated across the composition.

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Pixelated image with purple background and blue circles, displaying pink text 'my icon is cooler than yours' repeated across the composition.

Pixelated image with purple background and blue circles, displaying pink text 'my icon is cooler than yours' repeated across the composition. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fro…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image

Composition

  • scattered circles
  • text bands

Dense Caption

The image features a pixelated design on a solid purple background. Overlaid are multiple light blue circular shapes of varying sizes scattered throughout the frame. Pink text reading "my icon is cooler than yours" appears in three horizontal bands, with each band containing two instances of the phrase. The text and circles maintain consistent positioning across all visible frames. Pixelation creates a retro digital aesthetic typical of early internet graphics.

Description

Pixelated image with purple background and blue circles, displaying pink text 'my icon is cooler than yours' repeated across the composition.

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
  • 2007101518404646839362

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background blue circles pink text
  • my icon is cooler than yours pixel art
  • repeated phrase retro digital design
  • light blue circles purple background

Visible Text

  • my icon is cooler than yours

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • light blue circles
  • pink text
  • pixelated design
  • repeated phrase
  • three horizontal bands

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2007101518404646839362
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/1d/1dd4964bbade25c4b5480380329745204cbf35f58191bd9041cacaba177fe21e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC
Archive ID
1dd4964bbade25c4
SHA-256
1dd4964bbade25c4b5480380329745204cbf35f58191bd9041cacaba177fe21e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:14 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.175711

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image with purple background and blue circles, displaying pink text 'my icon is cooler than yours' repeated across the composition.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 10:26 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,340 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,104, response 608

Review tags

  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • confident (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • circles (object, 0.80)
  • static image (other, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image

Colors

  • purple
  • light blue
  • pink

Composition

  • scattered circles
  • text bands

Dense Caption

The image features a pixelated design on a solid purple background. Overlaid are multiple light blue circular shapes of varying sizes scattered throughout the frame. Pink text reading "my icon is cooler than yours" appears in three horizontal bands, with each band containing two instances of the phrase. The text and circles maintain consistent positioning across all visible frames. Pixelation creates a retro digital aesthetic typical of early internet graphics.

Description

Pixelated image with purple background and blue circles, displaying pink text 'my icon is cooler than yours' repeated across the composition.

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
  • 2007101518404646839362

Mood

  • playful
  • confident

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background blue circles pink text
  • my icon is cooler than yours pixel art
  • repeated phrase retro digital design
  • light blue circles purple background

Objects

  • circles

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • my icon is cooler than yours

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • light blue circles
  • pink text
  • pixelated design
  • repeated phrase
  • three horizontal bands
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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
2007101518404646839362
Archive entry
2007101518404646839362.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 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#2007101518404646839362.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2007101518404646839362.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016