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Pixelated icon shows red and green stylized text on dark background with abstract curved shapes.

Pixelated icon shows red and green stylized text on dark background with abstract curved shapes. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, La…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central composition
  • overlapping shapes and text

Dense Caption

Dark gray pixelated background. Central composition features large, overlapping red curved shapes resembling a hat or winged form above light green and yellowish-green blocky text. Text appears to be Chinese characters: the left character has three horizontal strokes and one vertical stroke; the right character is more complex with multiple horizontal and diagonal elements. Red shapes extend below the text as thin curved lines. Pixelation obscures fine details but preserves color contrast between red, green, yellowish-green, and dark gray.

Description

  • Pixelated icon shows red and green stylized text on dark background with abstract curved shapes.

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
  • 200803311748291191841278

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red green pixelated text icon
  • Chinese characters dark background
  • blocky green text red shapes
  • pixelated Chinese character icon

Uncertain Text

  • ? (left character)
  • ? (right character)

Visible Text

  • ???

Wordwall

  • red curved shapes
  • green blocky text
  • dark gray background
  • Chinese characters
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803311748291191841278
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/44/448bf0ac6a42dbf281c8f7cb72dc14ba73e8416b594e952b2e616995561918ac.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
448bf0ac6a42dbf2
SHA-256
448bf0ac6a42dbf281c8f7cb72dc14ba73e8416b594e952b2e616995561918ac
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:55 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072411

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon shows red and green stylized text on dark background with abstract curved shapes.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 21:52 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,270 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 631

Review tags

  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellowish green (color, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stylized characters (style, 0.80)
  • abstract red forms (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • green
  • yellowish-green
  • dark gray

Composition

  • central composition
  • overlapping shapes and text

Dense Caption

Dark gray pixelated background. Central composition features large, overlapping red curved shapes resembling a hat or winged form above light green and yellowish-green blocky text. Text appears to be Chinese characters: the left character has three horizontal strokes and one vertical stroke; the right character is more complex with multiple horizontal and diagonal elements. Red shapes extend below the text as thin curved lines. Pixelation obscures fine details but preserves color contrast between red, green, yellowish-green, and dark gray.

Description

  • Pixelated icon shows red and green stylized text on dark background with abstract curved shapes.

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
  • 200803311748291191841278

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red green pixelated text icon
  • Chinese characters dark background
  • blocky green text red shapes
  • pixelated Chinese character icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text
  • stylized characters

Subjects

  • text
  • abstract red forms

Uncertain Text

  • ? (left character)
  • ? (right character)

Visible Text

  • ???

Wordwall

  • red curved shapes
  • green blocky text
  • dark gray background
  • Chinese characters
  • pixelated rendering
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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
200803311748291191841278
Archive entry
200803311748291191841278.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 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#200803311748291191841278.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803311748291191841278.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016