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Purple background with white pixelated text 'Bromie' and '<3333', green plus signs scattered throughout, some plus signs have small yellow dots near them.

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Purple background with white pixelated text 'Bromie' and '<3333', green plus signs scattered throughout, some plus signs have small yellow dots near them.

Purple background with white pixelated text 'Bromie' and '<3333', green plus signs scattered throughout, some plus signs have small yellow dots near them. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM b…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • plus signs and dots shift position between quadrants

Animation Summary

  • The green plus signs and small yellow dots shift position between the four quadrants while the text and background remain static.

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • scattered elements
  • consistent color scheme

Dense Caption

Purple background with white pixelated text 'Bromie' in four quadrants and '<3333' beneath each 'Bromie'. Green plus signs scattered across the background; some plus signs have small yellow dots near them. The plus signs and dots appear in different positions across the four quadrants, creating a subtle variation in the pattern. The text and symbols maintain consistent pixelation and color scheme throughout.

Description

Purple background with white pixelated text 'Bromie' and '<3333', green plus signs scattered throughout, some plus signs have small yellow dots near them.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background bromie
  • bromie plus signs
  • pixelated bromie
  • bromie yellow dots
  • plus signs yellow dots
  • bromie animation
  • bromie text
  • bromie plus sign animation

Visible Text

  • Bromie
  • <3333

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • white pixelated text
  • Bromie
  • <3333
  • green plus signs
  • small yellow dots
  • four quadrants
  • subtle pattern variation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100810210725771892278
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 16:07 UTC
Archive ID
4644e7315687fb58
SHA-256
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Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 06:52 UTC
Run
1312
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Overall score
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Purple background with white pixelated text 'Bromie' and '<3333', green plus signs scattered throughout, some plus signs have small yellow dots near them.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 20:19 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,869 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 652

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • plus signs and dots shift position between quadrants

Animation Summary

  • The green plus signs and small yellow dots shift position between the four quadrants while the text and background remain static.

Colors

  • purple
  • white
  • green
  • yellow

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • scattered elements
  • consistent color scheme

Dense Caption

Purple background with white pixelated text 'Bromie' in four quadrants and '<3333' beneath each 'Bromie'. Green plus signs scattered across the background; some plus signs have small yellow dots near them. The plus signs and dots appear in different positions across the four quadrants, creating a subtle variation in the pattern. The text and symbols maintain consistent pixelation and color scheme throughout.

Description

Purple background with white pixelated text 'Bromie' and '<3333', green plus signs scattered throughout, some plus signs have small yellow dots near them.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background bromie
  • bromie plus signs
  • pixelated bromie
  • bromie yellow dots
  • plus signs yellow dots
  • bromie animation
  • bromie text
  • bromie plus sign animation

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • Bromie
  • <3333

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • white pixelated text
  • Bromie
  • <3333
  • green plus signs
  • small yellow dots
  • four quadrants
  • subtle pattern variation
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 23:02 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
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Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20100810210725771892278
Archive entry
20100810210725771892278.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 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#20100810210725771892278.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100810210725771892278.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016