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A pixelated image of two light gray flip-flops on a beige background, with purple text reading 'Summer 2008' and '<3' on yellow sections.

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A pixelated image of two light gray flip-flops on a beige background, with purple text reading 'Summer 2008' and '<3' on yellow sections.

A pixelated image of two light gray flip-flops on a beige background, with purple text reading 'Summer 2008' and '<3' on yellow sections. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • top-left: flip-flops on beige
  • top-right: 'Summer 2008' on yellow
  • bottom-left: '<3' on yellow
  • bottom-right: solid gray

Dense Caption

The icon is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows two light gray flip-flops with dark gray outlines on a beige background; the image has pixelated rendering. Top-right quadrant displays purple blocky text reading 'Summer 2008' on solid yellow background. Bottom-left quadrant contains purple '<3' symbol on solid yellow background. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. All elements are static, no animation observed.

Description

  • A pixelated image of two light gray flip-flops on a beige background, with purple text reading 'Summer 2008' and '<3' on yellow sections.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080506175839488115557

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance topic-coverage: summer

Named Entities

  • Summer 2008

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • summer 2008 flip-flops
  • yellow purple text icon
  • four quadrant summer icon
  • <3 flip-flops icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Visible Text

  • Summer 2008
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Summer 2008

Wordwall

  • flip-flops
  • beige background
  • yellow sections
  • purple text
  • 'Summer 2008'
  • '<3'
  • pixelated rendering
  • four-quadrant layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080506175839488115557
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/45/45a7aff5a4948082b3b3c6aa8ce0e3c39b9f02437e342e251b934bea5a394256.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC
Archive ID
45a7aff5a4948082
SHA-256
45a7aff5a4948082b3b3c6aa8ce0e3c39b9f02437e342e251b934bea5a394256
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
sfw
Overall score
0.171488

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated image of two light gray flip-flops on a beige background, with purple text reading 'Summer 2008' and '<3' on yellow sections.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 12:44 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,880 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 744

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • quadrant layout (style, 0.80)
  • flip flops (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • beige
  • light gray
  • dark gray
  • yellow
  • purple
  • gray

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • top-left: flip-flops on beige
  • top-right: 'Summer 2008' on yellow
  • bottom-left: '<3' on yellow
  • bottom-right: solid gray

Dense Caption

The icon is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows two light gray flip-flops with dark gray outlines on a beige background; the image has pixelated rendering. Top-right quadrant displays purple blocky text reading 'Summer 2008' on solid yellow background. Bottom-left quadrant contains purple '<3' symbol on solid yellow background. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. All elements are static, no animation observed.

Description

  • A pixelated image of two light gray flip-flops on a beige background, with purple text reading 'Summer 2008' and '<3' on yellow sections.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080506175839488115557

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance topic-coverage: summer

Named Entities

  • Summer 2008

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • summer 2008 flip-flops
  • yellow purple text icon
  • four quadrant summer icon
  • <3 flip-flops icon

Objects

  • flip-flops

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text
  • quadrant layout

Subjects

  • flip-flops

Visible Text

  • Summer 2008
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Summer 2008

Wordwall

  • flip-flops
  • beige background
  • yellow sections
  • purple text
  • 'Summer 2008'
  • '<3'
  • pixelated rendering
  • four-quadrant layout
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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
20080506175839488115557
Archive entry
20080506175839488115557.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 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#20080506175839488115557.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080506175839488115557.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016