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Pixelated blue background with black text and symbols; two identical static displays of 'Carly at buddy4u ;]' with a heart symbol above the left display.

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Pixelated blue background with black text and symbols; two identical static displays of 'Carly at buddy4u ;]' with a heart symbol above the left display.

Pixelated blue background with black text and symbols; two identical static displays of 'Carly at buddy4u ;]' with a heart symbol above the left display. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM bu…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two identical text blocks side-by-side
  • heart above left block

Dense Caption

Light blue solid background. Two identical pixelated text blocks: top line "Carly", middle line "at", bottom line "buddy4u" followed by ";]". Above the left text block, a black pixelated heart shape (two connected curved lines forming an open heart). All elements are static; no animation observed. Text uses a retro digital font with rounded edges and consistent spacing.

Description

Pixelated blue background with black text and symbols; two identical static displays of 'Carly at buddy4u ;]' with a heart symbol above the left display.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • Carly

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • carly buddy4u
  • buddy4u smiley face
  • pixelated heart text
  • light blue background digital icon

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but no pixel evidence supports these claims; all content described is based on visible pixels only.

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Subjects

  • text block
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Carly
  • at
  • buddy4u
  • ;]

Visually Supported Entities

  • buddy4u

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • black pixelated text
  • "Carly" top line
  • "at" middle line
  • "buddy4u" bottom line
  • ";]" smiley face
  • pixelated heart symbol
  • retro digital font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080522190834346026495
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
242 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
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 15:27 UTC
Archive ID
3e419de438aa81d9
SHA-256
3e419de438aa81d9ada210126e7fdbbb6ba886af16bffb04bf450b702c7ecbbf
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:48 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.124238

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Pixelated blue background with black text and symbols; two identical static displays of 'Carly at buddy4u ;]' with a heart symbol above the left display.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 18:13 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,583 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,137, response 766

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text block (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • black

Composition

  • two identical text blocks side-by-side
  • heart above left block

Dense Caption

Light blue solid background. Two identical pixelated text blocks: top line "Carly", middle line "at", bottom line "buddy4u" followed by ";]". Above the left text block, a black pixelated heart shape (two connected curved lines forming an open heart). All elements are static; no animation observed. Text uses a retro digital font with rounded edges and consistent spacing.

Description

Pixelated blue background with black text and symbols; two identical static displays of 'Carly at buddy4u ;]' with a heart symbol above the left display.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • Carly

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • friendly

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • carly buddy4u
  • buddy4u smiley face
  • pixelated heart text
  • light blue background digital icon

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but no pixel evidence supports these claims; all content described is based on visible pixels only.

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • heart symbol

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  • Carly
  • at
  • buddy4u
  • ;]

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Wordwall

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  • black pixelated text
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  • "at" middle line
  • "buddy4u" bottom line
  • ";]" smiley face
  • pixelated heart symbol
  • retro digital 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
20080522190834346026495
Archive entry
20080522190834346026495.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 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#20080522190834346026495.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080522190834346026495.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016