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Light blue background with repeating purple '<33' symbols and pink/purple star-shaped pixel clusters with dotted lines.

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Light blue background with repeating purple '<33' symbols and pink/purple star-shaped pixel clusters with dotted lines.

Light blue background with repeating purple '<33' symbols and pink/purple star-shaped pixel clusters with dotted lines. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fra…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • three
  • repeating elements

Dense Caption

Light blue background contains three rows of three purple '<33' symbols each. Each symbol is a left-pointing chevron followed by two '3' characters. Between and around the symbols are star-shaped pixel clusters: some are pink with pink dotted lines, others are light purple with light purple dotted lines. The clusters appear in four distinct positions relative to the symbols: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right of each symbol. The clusters alternate between pink and light purple across the grid. All elements are static with no visible animation.

Description

  • Light blue background with repeating purple '<33' symbols and pink/purple star-shaped pixel clusters with dotted lines.

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

  • <33 star clusters
  • light blue background pixel art
  • purple chevron 33
  • pink dotted line stars
  • repeating <33 pattern
  • light purple dotted line stars
  • pixel art
  • chevron left 33

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined composition: three rows
  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art grid layout

Visible Text

  • <33

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • <33 symbols
  • purple chevron
  • two '3' characters
  • star-shaped clusters
  • pink dotted lines
  • light purple dotted lines
  • three
  • repeating pattern
  • static elements
  • pixel art style
  • chevron-left
  • numeric '3'
  • dotted line clusters
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • light purple stars
  • pink stars
  • pixel clusters

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070803140641320234232
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
826 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/37/37ba25629d20149dd63037b98637f078a0804d03311c1b649e4030d5de4a29a7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
37ba25629d20149d
SHA-256
37ba25629d20149dd63037b98637f078a0804d03311c1b649e4030d5de4a29a7
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:42 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095331

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Light blue background with repeating purple '<33' symbols and pink/purple star-shaped pixel clusters with dotted lines.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 18:40 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,154 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,170, response 774

Review tags

  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • light purple (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dotted lines (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)
  • 33 symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • star clusters (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • purple
  • pink
  • light purple

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • three
  • repeating elements

Dense Caption

Light blue background contains three rows of three purple '<33' symbols each. Each symbol is a left-pointing chevron followed by two '3' characters. Between and around the symbols are star-shaped pixel clusters: some are pink with pink dotted lines, others are light purple with light purple dotted lines. The clusters appear in four distinct positions relative to the symbols: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right of each symbol. The clusters alternate between pink and light purple across the grid. All elements are static with no visible animation.

Description

  • Light blue background with repeating purple '<33' symbols and pink/purple star-shaped pixel clusters with dotted lines.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • light blue background pixel art
  • purple chevron 33
  • pink dotted line stars
  • repeating <33 pattern
  • light purple dotted line stars
  • pixel art
  • chevron left 33

Objects

  • dotted lines

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Style

  • pixel art
  • repeating pattern

Subjects

  • <33 symbols
  • star clusters

Visible Text

  • <33

Wordwall

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  • <33 symbols
  • purple chevron
  • two '3' characters
  • star-shaped clusters
  • pink dotted lines
  • light purple dotted lines
  • three
  • repeating pattern
  • static elements
  • pixel art style
  • chevron-left
  • numeric '3'
  • dotted line clusters
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • light purple stars
  • pink stars
  • pixel clusters
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:18 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20070803140641320234232
Archive entry
20070803140641320234232.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#20070803140641320234232.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070803140641320234232.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016