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Cyan text on black background with pink diamond lattice pattern, repeating names and phrases in pixelated font.

Cyan text on black background with pink diamond lattice pattern, repeating names and phrases in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; static image with repeated text and pattern

Composition

  • four
  • two sections
  • repeated text
  • diamond lattice
  • intersecting lines
  • mirrored effect

Dense Caption

Black background overlaid with repeating pink diamond lattice pattern. Cyan pixelated text reads 'Brendon, Kristen Brandon I <3 You Guys' in four vertical columns, repeated twice horizontally. Text appears in two identical horizontal sections stacked vertically. Each section contains four columns of text with identical content. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics. The pink lattice consists of intersecting diagonal lines forming diamond shapes. The cyan text has a slightly blurred appearance due to pixelation. The entire composition is duplicated vertically, creating a mirrored effect between top and bottom halves. The text and lattice patterns are static with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Cyan text on black background with pink diamond lattice pattern, repeating names and phrases in pixelated font.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text black background pink lattice
  • Brendon Kristen Brandon I <3 You Guys
  • pixelated text diamond lattice
  • four two sections mirrored effect
  • cyan pink black diamond lattice text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed
  • quarantined wordwall: four columns
  • quarantined composition: four columns
  • quarantined retrieval: four columns two sections mirrored effect

Visible Text

  • Brendon,
  • Kristen
  • Brandon
  • I <3
  • You Guys

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black background
  • pink diamond lattice
  • pixelated font
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  • Kristen
  • Brandon
  • I <3
  • You Guys
  • four
  • two sections
  • repeating text
  • blocky style
  • low-resolution graphics
  • diamond shapes
  • intersecting lines
  • mirrored effect

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200907101937021684598262
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/45/4562670d73f35f8579c514436cb8ae467bed8f56a7388d7db7b4f885a1fcbe39.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
4562670d73f35f85
SHA-256
4562670d73f35f8579c514436cb8ae467bed8f56a7388d7db7b4f885a1fcbe39
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 14:29 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000900

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:56 UTC
Run
105
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000605

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000605falseself-harm0.000478falseself-harm/intent0.000214falsesexual0.000155falseviolence/graphic0.000013falseself-harm/instructions0.000002falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:56 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
nsfw
Overall score
0.929390

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Cyan text on black background with pink diamond lattice pattern, repeating names and phrases in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 14:25 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,800 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 833

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; static image with repeated text and pattern

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • pink

Composition

  • four
  • two sections
  • repeated text
  • diamond lattice
  • intersecting lines
  • mirrored effect

Dense Caption

Black background overlaid with repeating pink diamond lattice pattern. Cyan pixelated text reads 'Brendon, Kristen Brandon I <3 You Guys' in four vertical columns, repeated twice horizontally. Text appears in two identical horizontal sections stacked vertically. Each section contains four columns of text with identical content. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics. The pink lattice consists of intersecting diagonal lines forming diamond shapes. The cyan text has a slightly blurred appearance due to pixelation. The entire composition is duplicated vertically, creating a mirrored effect between top and bottom halves. The text and lattice patterns are static with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Cyan text on black background with pink diamond lattice pattern, repeating names and phrases in pixelated font.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text black background pink lattice
  • Brendon Kristen Brandon I <3 You Guys
  • pixelated text diamond lattice
  • four two sections mirrored effect
  • cyan pink black diamond lattice text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed
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  • quarantined composition: four columns
  • quarantined retrieval: four columns two sections mirrored effect

Style

  • pixelated
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  • Brendon,
  • Kristen
  • Brandon
  • I <3
  • You Guys

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black background
  • pink diamond lattice
  • pixelated font
  • Brendon
  • Kristen
  • Brandon
  • I <3
  • You Guys
  • four
  • two sections
  • repeating text
  • blocky style
  • low-resolution graphics
  • diamond shapes
  • intersecting lines
  • mirrored effect
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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
200907101937021684598262
Archive entry
200907101937021684598262.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#200907101937021684598262.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200907101937021684598262.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016