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Pixelated image with colorful abstract background and black rectangular text box containing white text 'aIEE' with a stylized 'a' character.

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Pixelated image with colorful abstract background and black rectangular text box containing white text 'aIEE' with a stylized 'a' character.

Pixelated image with colorful abstract background and black rectangular text box containing white text 'aIEE' with a stylized 'a' character. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Source terms

Composition

  • centered text box
  • symmetrical background
  • no focal point

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated static icon with a multicolored abstract background composed of orange, brown, green, pink, and yellow pixels. A solid black rectangular box is centered horizontally and vertically, containing four white uppercase characters: 'a', 'I', 'E', 'E'. The first character 'a' is stylized with a circular counter and a vertical stem. The background features no discernible shapes or figures, only a dense pattern of mixed color pixels. The overall resolution is low, consistent with early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image with colorful abstract background and black rectangular text box containing white text 'aIEE' with a stylized 'a' character.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • aIEE pixel art
  • stylized a text
  • black rectangle white letters
  • multicolored abstract background

Visible Text

  • aIEE

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • multicolored background
  • black rectangle
  • white text
  • aIEE
  • stylized a
  • uppercase letters
  • low resolution
  • abstract pattern
  • centered text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901040939481248066763
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Still image
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 15:48 UTC
Archive ID
3142c2e109d99dfe
SHA-256
3142c2e109d99dfece7f2dc14d4df2a0165c36641279578f1e0e8b1c6acdde39
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:35 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072475

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image with colorful abstract background and black rectangular text box containing white text 'aIEE' with a stylized 'a' character.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 16:42 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,124 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 675

Review tags

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  • brown
  • green
  • pink
  • yellow
  • black
  • white

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  • centered text box
  • symmetrical background
  • no focal point

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated static icon with a multicolored abstract background composed of orange, brown, green, pink, and yellow pixels. A solid black rectangular box is centered horizontally and vertically, containing four white uppercase characters: 'a', 'I', 'E', 'E'. The first character 'a' is stylized with a circular counter and a vertical stem. The background features no discernible shapes or figures, only a dense pattern of mixed color pixels. The overall resolution is low, consistent with early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image with colorful abstract background and black rectangular text box containing white text 'aIEE' with a stylized 'a' character.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • aIEE pixel art
  • stylized a text
  • black rectangle white letters
  • multicolored abstract background

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • abstract

Visible Text

  • aIEE

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • multicolored background
  • black rectangle
  • white text
  • aIEE
  • stylized a
  • uppercase letters
  • low resolution
  • abstract pattern
  • centered text
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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
200901040939481248066763
Archive entry
200901040939481248066763.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 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#200901040939481248066763.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901040939481248066763.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016