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Red background with two white lowercase 'i' characters at top center, six orange puzzle-piece shapes arranged horizontally below each 'i' character.

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Red background with two white lowercase 'i' characters at top center, six orange puzzle-piece shapes arranged horizontally below each 'i' character.

Red background with two white lowercase 'i' characters at top center, six orange puzzle-piece shapes arranged horizontally below each 'i' character. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy i…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two of six puzzle pieces
  • two 'i' characters at top
  • horizontal symmetry

Dense Caption

Solid red background. Two white lowercase 'i' characters positioned horizontally centered at the top edge, each spaced from the center. Below each 'i', six orange puzzle-piece shapes arranged in a horizontal row. The left row's puzzle pieces are slightly darker orange than the right row's. All shapes are pixelated with no anti-aliasing. The left row's first puzzle piece is slightly larger than the right row's first puzzle piece. The left row's second puzzle piece is slightly smaller than the right row's second puzzle piece. The left row's third puzzle piece is slightly larger than the right row's third puzzle piece. The left row's fourth puzzle piece is slightly smaller than the right row's fourth puzzle piece. The left row's fifth puzzle piece is slightly larger than the right row's fifth puzzle piece. The left row's sixth puzzle piece is slightly smaller than the right row's sixth puzzle piece.

Description

Red background with two white lowercase 'i' characters at top center, six orange puzzle-piece shapes arranged horizontally below each 'i' character.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background white i characters orange puzzle pieces
  • two six puzzle pieces
  • horizontal symmetry puzzle pieces
  • orange puzzle pieces white i red background
  • pixelated puzzle pieces white i red
  • symmetrical puzzle pieces white i red
  • puzzle pieces white i red background
  • orange puzzle pieces white i

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: left row sixth piece smaller
  • quarantined wordwall: left row fifth piece larger
  • quarantined wordwall: left row fourth piece smaller
  • quarantined wordwall: left row third piece larger
  • quarantined wordwall: left row second piece smaller
  • quarantined wordwall: left row first piece larger
  • quarantined wordwall: right row lighter orange
  • quarantined wordwall: left row darker orange
  • quarantined composition: two rows of six puzzle pieces
  • quarantined retrieval: two rows six puzzle pieces

Visible Text

  • i

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white lowercase 'i' characters
  • six orange puzzle pieces
  • horizontal arrangement
  • pixelated shapes
  • left darker orange
  • right lighter orange
  • left first piece larger
  • left second piece smaller
  • left third piece larger
  • left fourth piece smaller
  • left fifth piece larger
  • left sixth piece smaller

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090530054817707469830
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
224 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 15:58 UTC
Archive ID
442ff5c53bf0bbf1
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:54 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095032

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with two white lowercase 'i' characters at top center, six orange puzzle-piece shapes arranged horizontally below each 'i' character.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 11:02 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,979 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 847

Review tags

  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
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  • symmetrical (style, 0.80)
  • lowercase i characters (subject, 0.80)
  • puzzle pieces (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • orange

Composition

  • two of six puzzle pieces
  • two 'i' characters at top
  • horizontal symmetry

Dense Caption

Solid red background. Two white lowercase 'i' characters positioned horizontally centered at the top edge, each spaced from the center. Below each 'i', six orange puzzle-piece shapes arranged in a horizontal row. The left row's puzzle pieces are slightly darker orange than the right row's. All shapes are pixelated with no anti-aliasing. The left row's first puzzle piece is slightly larger than the right row's first puzzle piece. The left row's second puzzle piece is slightly smaller than the right row's second puzzle piece. The left row's third puzzle piece is slightly larger than the right row's third puzzle piece. The left row's fourth puzzle piece is slightly smaller than the right row's fourth puzzle piece. The left row's fifth puzzle piece is slightly larger than the right row's fifth puzzle piece. The left row's sixth puzzle piece is slightly smaller than the right row's sixth puzzle piece.

Description

Red background with two white lowercase 'i' characters at top center, six orange puzzle-piece shapes arranged horizontally below each 'i' character.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • two six puzzle pieces
  • horizontal symmetry puzzle pieces
  • orange puzzle pieces white i red background
  • pixelated puzzle pieces white i red
  • symmetrical puzzle pieces white i red
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  • orange puzzle pieces white i

Objects

  • puzzle pieces
  • lowercase 'i' characters

Preprocessing Notes

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Style

  • pixelated
  • minimalist
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Subjects

  • puzzle pieces
  • lowercase 'i' characters

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  • i

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  • left darker orange
  • right lighter orange
  • left first piece larger
  • left second piece smaller
  • left third piece larger
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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
20090530054817707469830
Archive entry
20090530054817707469830.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 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

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