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Red background with four white 'kone' texts and three blue pixel clusters in heart, starburst, and dot patterns.

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Red background with four white 'kone' texts and three blue pixel clusters in heart, starburst, and dot patterns.

Red background with four white 'kone' texts and three blue pixel clusters in heart, starburst, and dot patterns. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all elements remain static across observations.

Composition

  • four corners text placement
  • centered dot cluster

Dense Caption

Red solid background. Four instances of the text 'kone' in white blocky font: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right. Three distinct blue pixel clusters: one purple-blue heart shape at top-center (10 pixels), one blue starburst pattern with 12 dots at top-right, and one blue dot cluster with 15 dots at center. All elements are static; no animation observed.

Description

  • Red background with four white 'kone' texts and three blue pixel clusters in heart, starburst, and dot patterns.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 201201210841021353433941

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background blue pixel clusters
  • white text 'kone' four corners
  • heart starburst dot blue clusters
  • pixel art red white blue

Visible Text

  • kone

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white 'kone' text
  • blue pixel clusters
  • heart-shaped cluster
  • starburst cluster
  • dot cluster
  • blocky font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201201210841021353433941
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
281 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3e/3e277d0148c570f127cde58acd3671816cf190151a89422393d9920a2ecf73f9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC
Archive ID
3e277d0148c570f1
SHA-256
3e277d0148c570f127cde58acd3671816cf190151a89422393d9920a2ecf73f9
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:48 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.129614

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Red background with four white 'kone' texts and three blue pixel clusters in heart, starburst, and dot patterns.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 01:45 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,888 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 576

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static image (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all elements remain static across observations.

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • blue

Composition

  • four corners text placement
  • centered dot cluster

Dense Caption

Red solid background. Four instances of the text 'kone' in white blocky font: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right. Three distinct blue pixel clusters: one purple-blue heart shape at top-center (10 pixels), one blue starburst pattern with 12 dots at top-right, and one blue dot cluster with 15 dots at center. All elements are static; no animation observed.

Description

  • Red background with four white 'kone' texts and three blue pixel clusters in heart, starburst, and dot patterns.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 201201210841021353433941

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background blue pixel clusters
  • white text 'kone' four corners
  • heart starburst dot blue clusters
  • pixel art red white blue

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky text
  • static image

Visible Text

  • kone

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white 'kone' text
  • blue pixel clusters
  • heart-shaped cluster
  • starburst cluster
  • dot cluster
  • blocky font
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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
201201210841021353433941
Archive entry
201201210841021353433941.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 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#201201210841021353433941.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201201210841021353433941.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016