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Pixelated icon shows dark animal with antlers on purple background, surrounded by colorful dots, with 'A & E' text above.

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Pixelated icon shows dark animal with antlers on purple background, surrounded by colorful dots, with 'A & E' text above.

Pixelated icon shows dark animal with antlers on purple background, surrounded by colorful dots, with 'A & E' text above. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central animal
  • scattered dots
  • text above animal

Dense Caption

Pixelated image on solid purple background features a dark gray animal with antlers (resembling a moose or deer) in mid-stride, facing left. Above the animal, black pixelated text reads 'A & E' with the ampersand stylized as a curved line. Surrounding the central figure are scattered pixelated dots in red, orange, yellow, green, and blue. The animal's body has lighter gray and white pixel accents on legs and underbelly. All elements are static with no visible motion.

Description

  • Pixelated icon shows dark animal with antlers on purple background, surrounded by colorful dots, with 'A & E' text above.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • animal with antlers purple background
  • A & E text pixelated dots
  • dark gray moose pixel art
  • purple background animal dots

Subjects

  • animal

Visible Text

  • A & E

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • dark gray animal
  • antlers
  • mid-stride pose
  • A & E text
  • red dots
  • orange dots
  • yellow dots
  • green dots
  • blue dots
  • pixelated style
  • static image
  • scattered dots
  • stylized ampersand
  • light gray accents
  • white underbelly
  • left-facing animal

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070730165534961627245
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3a/3aab8766194ff48823719c664fffdb01ae2cca42af736a4b60fce5afe0f4a173.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
3aab8766194ff488
SHA-256
3aab8766194ff48823719c664fffdb01ae2cca42af736a4b60fce5afe0f4a173
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:45 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.058681

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated icon shows dark animal with antlers on purple background, surrounded by colorful dots, with 'A & E' text above.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 16:32 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,744 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,084, response 724

Review tags

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  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • whimsical (mood, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • animal (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • striding

Colors

  • purple
  • dark gray
  • red
  • orange
  • yellow
  • green
  • blue
  • light gray
  • white

Composition

  • central animal
  • scattered dots
  • text above animal

Dense Caption

Pixelated image on solid purple background features a dark gray animal with antlers (resembling a moose or deer) in mid-stride, facing left. Above the animal, black pixelated text reads 'A & E' with the ampersand stylized as a curved line. Surrounding the central figure are scattered pixelated dots in red, orange, yellow, green, and blue. The animal's body has lighter gray and white pixel accents on legs and underbelly. All elements are static with no visible motion.

Description

  • Pixelated icon shows dark animal with antlers on purple background, surrounded by colorful dots, with 'A & E' text above.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • whimsical

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • animal with antlers purple background
  • A & E text pixelated dots
  • dark gray moose pixel art
  • purple background animal dots

Objects

  • dots

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • retro

Subjects

  • animal

Visible Text

  • A & E

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • dark gray animal
  • antlers
  • mid-stride pose
  • A & E text
  • red dots
  • orange dots
  • yellow dots
  • green dots
  • blue dots
  • pixelated style
  • static image
  • scattered dots
  • stylized ampersand
  • light gray accents
  • white underbelly
  • left-facing animal
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:50 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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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070730165534961627245
Archive entry
20070730165534961627245.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#20070730165534961627245.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070730165534961627245.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016