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Pixel art icon with cyan background displaying repeated text and symbols in black, arranged symmetrically across four quadrants.

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Pixel art icon with cyan background displaying repeated text and symbols in black, arranged symmetrically across four quadrants.

Pixel art icon with cyan background displaying repeated text and symbols in black, arranged symmetrically across four quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no animation observed; static image

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • vertical and horizontal dashed line dividers
  • corner asterisk borders

Dense Caption

Cyan background features a grid of black pixelated elements. Top-left quadrant contains 'I' above 'Love', 'Corona', 'Nguyen<3'. Top-right mirrors this layout. Bottom-left repeats the same text sequence. Bottom-right matches top-right. Vertical and horizontal dashed lines divide quadrants. Asterisks form corner borders; some asterisks have internal dotted patterns. All text uses a blocky, retro font style with consistent spacing between characters.

Description

  • Pixel art icon with cyan background displaying repeated text and symbols in black, arranged symmetrically across four quadrants.

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
  • 200802191941051539505211

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pixel art icon
  • symmetrical text
  • 'I Love Corona Nguyen<3' repeated
  • blocky retro font cyan background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed; static image
  • quarantined wordwall: symmetrical grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid
  • quarantined retrieval: symmetrical grid text

Visible Text

  • I
  • Love
  • Corona
  • Nguyen<3

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • black pixelated elements
  • symmetrical
  • 'I' text
  • 'Love' text
  • 'Corona' text
  • 'Nguyen<3' text
  • dashed line dividers
  • asterisk corner borders
  • blocky retro font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802191941051539505211
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
434 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/40/40f4c7508cbd1b2712fb3ce668ef4d97f86732ce1b690ee1d4e69f268ee19349.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Archive ID
40f4c7508cbd1b27
SHA-256
40f4c7508cbd1b2712fb3ce668ef4d97f86732ce1b690ee1d4e69f268ee19349
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 11, 2026 at 21:23 UTC
Run
1284
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000906

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:51 UTC
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Overall label
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Pixel art icon with cyan background displaying repeated text and symbols in black, arranged symmetrically across four quadrants.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 00:36 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,839 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 609

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • symmetrical composition (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no animation observed; static image

Colors

  • cyan
  • black

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • vertical and horizontal dashed line dividers
  • corner asterisk borders

Dense Caption

Cyan background features a grid of black pixelated elements. Top-left quadrant contains 'I' above 'Love', 'Corona', 'Nguyen<3'. Top-right mirrors this layout. Bottom-left repeats the same text sequence. Bottom-right matches top-right. Vertical and horizontal dashed lines divide quadrants. Asterisks form corner borders; some asterisks have internal dotted patterns. All text uses a blocky, retro font style with consistent spacing between characters.

Description

  • Pixel art icon with cyan background displaying repeated text and symbols in black, arranged symmetrically across four quadrants.

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
  • 200802191941051539505211

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pixel art icon
  • symmetrical text
  • 'I Love Corona Nguyen<3' repeated
  • blocky retro font cyan background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed; static image
  • quarantined wordwall: symmetrical grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid
  • quarantined retrieval: symmetrical grid text

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • symmetrical composition

Visible Text

  • I
  • Love
  • Corona
  • Nguyen<3

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • black pixelated elements
  • symmetrical
  • 'I' text
  • 'Love' text
  • 'Corona' text
  • 'Nguyen<3' text
  • dashed line dividers
  • asterisk corner borders
  • blocky retro 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
200802191941051539505211
Archive entry
200802191941051539505211.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 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#200802191941051539505211.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802191941051539505211.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016