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Four pixelated cupcake icons with blue frosting, red cherry on top, and brown base arranged in a against pink chevron background

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Four pixelated cupcake icons with blue frosting, red cherry on top, and brown base arranged in a against pink chevron background

Four pixelated cupcake icons with blue frosting, red cherry on top, and brown base arranged in a against pink chevron background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • facial symbols change across frames: ")(" → ";|" → ";)" → ";D"
  • no motion in background or cupcake structure

Animation Summary

  • Facial symbols change sequentially: ")(" → ";|" → ";)" → ";D"

Composition

  • centered elements
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated cupcakes each have light blue speckled frosting, a single round red cherry on top, and a tan cake base. Each cupcake has a black-and-white symbol replacing the face: top-left is ")(", top-right is ";|", bottom-left is ";)", bottom-right is ";D". The background features pink chevron stripes radiating from center. All cupcakes share identical size, position, and base design; only facial symbols differ between icons.

Description

  • Four pixelated cupcake icons with blue frosting, red cherry on top, and brown base arranged in a against pink chevron 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20120730020150693254622
  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cupcake emoji set
  • blue frosting cherry icon
  • pink chevron background symbol icons
  • ")(" to ";D" animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four pixelated cupcake icons with blue frosting, red cherry on top, and brown base arranged in a 2x2 grid against pink chevron background.
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • )(
  • ;|
  • ;)
  • ;D

Visually Supported Entities

  • cupcake icon set

Wordwall

  • cupcake icon
  • blue speckled frosting
  • red cherry top
  • tan cake base
  • pink chevron background
  • ")(" symbol
  • ;|" symbol
  • ";)" symbol
  • ";D" symbol

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20120730020150693254622
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:10 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 16:10 UTC
Archive ID
3e9dce4ad57fac77
SHA-256
3e9dce4ad57fac77f063aa86f8926527601b9db45a243ccd08818b10c49c9310
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:49 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.065429

OpenAI category scores

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Four pixelated cupcake icons with blue frosting, red cherry on top, and brown base arranged in a against pink chevron background

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 03:00 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,390 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 742

Review tags

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  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • tan (color, 0.80)
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  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • cherry (object, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
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  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • cupcake (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • facial symbols change across frames: ")(" → ";|" → ";)" → ";D"
  • no motion in background or cupcake structure

Animation Summary

  • Facial symbols change sequentially: ")(" → ";|" → ";)" → ";D"

Colors

  • pink
  • light blue
  • tan
  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered elements
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated cupcakes each have light blue speckled frosting, a single round red cherry on top, and a tan cake base. Each cupcake has a black-and-white symbol replacing the face: top-left is ")(", top-right is ";|", bottom-left is ";)", bottom-right is ";D". The background features pink chevron stripes radiating from center. All cupcakes share identical size, position, and base design; only facial symbols differ between icons.

Description

  • Four pixelated cupcake icons with blue frosting, red cherry on top, and brown base arranged in a against pink chevron 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20120730020150693254622
  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • blue frosting cherry icon
  • pink chevron background symbol icons
  • ")(" to ";D" animation

Objects

  • cherry

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four pixelated cupcake icons with blue frosting, red cherry on top, and brown base arranged in a 2x2 grid against pink chevron background.
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • cupcake

Visible Text

  • )(
  • ;|
  • ;)
  • ;D

Visually Supported Entities

  • cupcake icon set

Wordwall

  • cupcake icon
  • blue speckled frosting
  • red cherry top
  • tan cake base
  • pink chevron background
  • ")(" symbol
  • ;|" symbol
  • ";)" symbol
  • ";D" symbol
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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
20120730020150693254622
Archive entry
20120730020150693254622.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:10 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#20120730020150693254622.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20120730020150693254622.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016