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Four identical circular icons with black concentric rings on a bright pink background, each containing pixelated text and symbols.

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Four identical circular icons with black concentric rings on a bright pink background, each containing pixelated text and symbols.

Four identical circular icons with black concentric rings on a bright pink background, each containing pixelated text and symbols. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • identical circular icons on square background

Dense Caption

Bright pink square background. Four identical circular icons arranged in a 2x2 grid; each icon has three thick black concentric rings forming the border. Inside each circle: white pixelated text "crappy" above larger white pixelated text "minded"; small white heart symbol between and slightly overlapping the words. All four icons show identical static content with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Four identical circular icons with black concentric rings on a bright pink background, each containing pixelated text and symbols.

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

  • bright pink concentric rings text
  • minded crappy heart icon
  • pixelated text heart symbol
  • repetitive icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined style: repetitive grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid of identical circular icons on square background
  • quarantined retrieval: repetitive grid icons

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • crappy
  • minded

Visually Supported Entities

  • text 'crappy'

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • four circular icons
  • three black concentric rings per icon
  • white pixelated text 'crappy'
  • white pixelated text 'minded'
  • small white heart symbol

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804021057582118607133
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/27/27ec01b49a84cb3ec970fd12404a750762ae4e9765b53f35d2b8af510cfff291.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
27ec01b49a84cb3e
SHA-256
27ec01b49a84cb3ec970fd12404a750762ae4e9765b53f35d2b8af510cfff291
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:25 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.143868

OpenAI category scores

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Four identical circular icons with black concentric rings on a bright pink background, each containing pixelated text and symbols.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 22:17 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,316 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 579

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • ironic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • concentric rings (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • bright pink
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • identical circular icons on square background

Dense Caption

Bright pink square background. Four identical circular icons arranged in a 2x2 grid; each icon has three thick black concentric rings forming the border. Inside each circle: white pixelated text "crappy" above larger white pixelated text "minded"; small white heart symbol between and slightly overlapping the words. All four icons show identical static content with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Four identical circular icons with black concentric rings on a bright pink background, each containing pixelated text and symbols.

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
  • ironic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bright pink concentric rings text
  • minded crappy heart icon
  • pixelated text heart symbol
  • repetitive icons

Objects

  • concentric rings

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined style: repetitive grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid of identical circular icons on square background
  • quarantined retrieval: repetitive grid icons

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • repetitive

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • crappy
  • minded

Visually Supported Entities

  • text 'crappy'

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • four circular icons
  • three black concentric rings per icon
  • white pixelated text 'crappy'
  • white pixelated text 'minded'
  • small white heart symbol
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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
200804021057582118607133
Archive entry
200804021057582118607133.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 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#200804021057582118607133.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804021057582118607133.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016