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Pixelated light blue background with repeating 'aaron<3' text and wave-like borders, showing partial gray overlay on right side.

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Pixelated light blue background with repeating 'aaron<3' text and wave-like borders, showing partial gray overlay on right side.

Pixelated light blue background with repeating 'aaron<3' text and wave-like borders, showing partial gray overlay on right side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal wave borders
  • text repetition
  • partial gray overlay on right

Dense Caption

Light blue pixel art background features repeated 'aaron<3' text in darker blue pixels across the top row. A horizontal wave-shaped border of lighter blue pixels separates the top section from a lower light blue area containing two more 'aaron<3' instances. The bottom edge has another wave-like border with similar pixel patterns. On the right side, there is a solid gray rectangular overlay covering part of the image. All text and borders use consistent 8-bit style pixel rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated light blue background with repeating 'aaron<3' text and wave-like borders, showing partial gray overlay on right side.

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
  • 20080117154942926810871

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • aaron<3 pixel art
  • light blue wave borders
  • gray overlay buddy icon
  • repeating text icon

Visible Text

  • aaron<3

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • darker blue text
  • 'aaron<3' repeated
  • wave-shaped borders
  • gray rectangle on right
  • pixelated art style
  • repeating pattern

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080117154942926810871
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
573 bytes
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4a/4a4aef1fdf02531b013c03af031ed6338b5d32743005d0c1fdb038254f8cade7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC
Archive ID
4a4aef1fdf02531b
SHA-256
4a4aef1fdf02531b013c03af031ed6338b5d32743005d0c1fdb038254f8cade7
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:13 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073485

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated light blue background with repeating 'aaron<3' text and wave-like borders, showing partial gray overlay on right side.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 11:02 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,263 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,163, response 655

Review tags

  • darker blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • darker blue
  • gray

Composition

  • horizontal wave borders
  • text repetition
  • partial gray overlay on right

Dense Caption

Light blue pixel art background features repeated 'aaron<3' text in darker blue pixels across the top row. A horizontal wave-shaped border of lighter blue pixels separates the top section from a lower light blue area containing two more 'aaron<3' instances. The bottom edge has another wave-like border with similar pixel patterns. On the right side, there is a solid gray rectangular overlay covering part of the image. All text and borders use consistent 8-bit style pixel rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated light blue background with repeating 'aaron<3' text and wave-like borders, showing partial gray overlay on right side.

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
  • 20080117154942926810871

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • aaron<3 pixel art
  • light blue wave borders
  • gray overlay buddy icon
  • repeating text icon

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • repeating pattern

Visible Text

  • aaron<3

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • darker blue text
  • 'aaron<3' repeated
  • wave-shaped borders
  • gray rectangle on right
  • pixelated art style
  • repeating pattern
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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
20080117154942926810871
Archive entry
20080117154942926810871.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 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#20080117154942926810871.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080117154942926810871.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016