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Pixelated tie-dye pattern with pink, blue, and white hues on left; orange background with yellow pixel art symbols on right.

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Pixelated tie-dye pattern with pink, blue, and white hues on left; orange background with yellow pixel art symbols on right.

Pixelated tie-dye pattern with pink, blue, and white hues on left; orange background with yellow pixel art symbols on right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; static pixel art composition throughout all chronological observations.

Composition

  • left-right split
  • tied dye on left
  • symbols on right

Dense Caption

Left section displays a low-resolution, pixelated tie-dye swirl in pastel pink, light blue, and off-white. Right section features solid bright orange background with four distinct yellow pixel-art elements: top row shows three upward-pointing chevrons (\ / \) above a horizontal line; bottom left contains an ampersand (&); bottom right displays a heart symbol (<3). All symbols are rendered in blocky, retro digital style. No visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Pixelated tie-dye pattern with pink, blue, and white hues on left; orange background with yellow pixel art symbols on right.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 20070919155912438379665
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • tie-dye orange yellow symbols
  • pink blue white tie-dye ampersand heart
  • pixelated chevrons horizontal line & <3

Wordwall

  • tie-dye
  • pink blue white
  • orange background
  • yellow pixel art
  • chevrons \ / \
  • horizontal line
  • & symbol
  • <3 symbol

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070919155912438379665
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/29/29c9fe9fd617f9b387c196061ae31241e5ed4482932e681f9d1d750ed59fcf20.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
Archive ID
29c9fe9fd617f9b3
SHA-256
29c9fe9fd617f9b387c196061ae31241e5ed4482932e681f9d1d750ed59fcf20
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:27 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095115

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated tie-dye pattern with pink, blue, and white hues on left; orange background with yellow pixel art symbols on right.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 03:06 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,909 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 576

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • tie dye pattern (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; static pixel art composition throughout all chronological observations.

Colors

  • pink
  • blue
  • white
  • orange
  • yellow

Composition

  • left-right split
  • tied dye on left
  • symbols on right

Dense Caption

Left section displays a low-resolution, pixelated tie-dye swirl in pastel pink, light blue, and off-white. Right section features solid bright orange background with four distinct yellow pixel-art elements: top row shows three upward-pointing chevrons (\ / \) above a horizontal line; bottom left contains an ampersand (&); bottom right displays a heart symbol (<3). All symbols are rendered in blocky, retro digital style. No visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Pixelated tie-dye pattern with pink, blue, and white hues on left; orange background with yellow pixel art symbols on right.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 20070919155912438379665
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • tie-dye orange yellow symbols
  • pink blue white tie-dye ampersand heart
  • pixelated chevrons horizontal line & <3

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • tie-dye pattern

Wordwall

  • tie-dye
  • pink blue white
  • orange background
  • yellow pixel art
  • chevrons \ / \
  • horizontal line
  • & symbol
  • <3 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
20070919155912438379665
Archive entry
20070919155912438379665.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:46 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#20070919155912438379665.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070919155912438379665.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016