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Four distinct pixelated backgrounds with overlaid text: zebra stripes, leopard spots, wood grain, and solid gray.

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Four distinct pixelated backgrounds with overlaid text: zebra stripes, leopard spots, wood grain, and solid gray.

Four distinct pixelated backgrounds with overlaid text: zebra stripes, leopard spots, wood grain, and solid gray. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four equal quadrants
  • text centered in each quadrant

Dense Caption

Top-left quadrant shows black-and-white zebra stripes with pink 'TB' text; top-right displays brown-black leopard spots with green 'Secret' text; bottom-left features light brown wood grain texture with red 'Acres' text; bottom-right is a plain light gray background. All backgrounds are pixelated, each occupies one quarter of the 2x2 grid layout.

Description

  • Four distinct pixelated backgrounds with overlaid text: zebra stripes, leopard spots, wood grain, and solid gray.

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
  • 20090509113102323076468

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • zebra stripes TB
  • leopard spots Secret
  • wood grain Acres
  • gray background text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • TB
  • Secret
  • Acres

Wordwall

  • zebra stripes
  • leopard spots
  • wood grain
  • solid gray
  • pink TB
  • green Secret
  • red Acres
  • pixelated text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090509113102323076468
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 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 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
4d7a3e2fd9fe5ef3
SHA-256
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Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 09:21 UTC
Run
1315
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall score
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July 26, 2026 at 21:17 UTC
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July 23, 2026 at 16:18 UTC
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Four distinct pixelated backgrounds with overlaid text: zebra stripes, leopard spots, wood grain, and solid gray.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 09:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,213 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 601

Review tags

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Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pink
  • green
  • brown
  • red
  • gray

Composition

  • four equal quadrants
  • text centered in each quadrant

Dense Caption

Top-left quadrant shows black-and-white zebra stripes with pink 'TB' text; top-right displays brown-black leopard spots with green 'Secret' text; bottom-left features light brown wood grain texture with red 'Acres' text; bottom-right is a plain light gray background. All backgrounds are pixelated, each occupies one quarter of the 2x2 grid layout.

Description

  • Four distinct pixelated backgrounds with overlaid text: zebra stripes, leopard spots, wood grain, and solid gray.

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
  • 20090509113102323076468

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • zebra stripes TB
  • leopard spots Secret
  • wood grain Acres
  • gray background text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • TB
  • Secret
  • Acres

Wordwall

  • zebra stripes
  • leopard spots
  • wood grain
  • solid gray
  • pink TB
  • green Secret
  • red Acres
  • pixelated text
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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
20090509113102323076468
Archive entry
20090509113102323076468.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#20090509113102323076468.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090509113102323076468.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016