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Pixelated white text 'RFC:' above two of pink and purple puzzle-piece icons on a black background

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Pixelated white text 'RFC:' above two of pink and purple puzzle-piece icons on a black background

Pixelated white text 'RFC:' above two of pink and purple puzzle-piece icons on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text centered top
  • icons arranged horizontally in two

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text 'RFC:' centered horizontally at the top. Below the text, two rows of five pink and purple puzzle-piece icons each. Left row: four bright pink icons and one dark purple icon. Right row: four bright pink icons and one dark purple icon. The dark purple icon is positioned third from the left in both rows. The icons are arranged in a horizontal line. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated white text 'RFC:' above two of pink and purple puzzle-piece icons on a black background

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

  • RFC puzzle-piece icons
  • pink purple puzzle icons
  • black background RFC text
  • two puzzle icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated white text 'RFC:' above two rows of pink and purple puzzle-piece icons on a black background.
  • quarantined wordwall: five icons per row
  • quarantined wordwall: two rows
  • quarantined composition: icons arranged horizontally in two rows
  • quarantined retrieval: two rows puzzle icons

Visible Text

  • RFC:

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white text
  • RFC:
  • puzzle-piece icons
  • pink icons
  • purple icon
  • two
  • five icons per
  • dark purple icon third from left
  • pixelated text

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812101736221238525695
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
240 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/36/36d798cf4d4d10153e02e91aa70a11f8e0fdd547d73547cb343df337cfdd6367.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
36d798cf4d4d1015
SHA-256
36d798cf4d4d10153e02e91aa70a11f8e0fdd547d73547cb343df337cfdd6367
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.114982

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Pixelated white text 'RFC:' above two of pink and purple puzzle-piece icons on a black background

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 13:14 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,111 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 644

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • puzzle piece icons (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pink
  • purple

Composition

  • text centered top
  • icons arranged horizontally in two

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text 'RFC:' centered horizontally at the top. Below the text, two rows of five pink and purple puzzle-piece icons each. Left row: four bright pink icons and one dark purple icon. Right row: four bright pink icons and one dark purple icon. The dark purple icon is positioned third from the left in both rows. The icons are arranged in a horizontal line. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated white text 'RFC:' above two of pink and purple puzzle-piece icons on a black background

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

  • RFC puzzle-piece icons
  • pink purple puzzle icons
  • black background RFC text
  • two puzzle icons

Objects

  • puzzle-piece icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated white text 'RFC:' above two rows of pink and purple puzzle-piece icons on a black background.
  • quarantined wordwall: five icons per row
  • quarantined wordwall: two rows
  • quarantined composition: icons arranged horizontally in two rows
  • quarantined retrieval: two rows puzzle icons

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • puzzle-piece icons

Visible Text

  • RFC:

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white text
  • RFC:
  • puzzle-piece icons
  • pink icons
  • purple icon
  • two
  • five icons per
  • dark purple icon third from left
  • pixelated 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
200812101736221238525695
Archive entry
200812101736221238525695.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#200812101736221238525695.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812101736221238525695.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016