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Black background with white geometric lines forming interconnected squares and X shapes, four instances of pink 'AP' text scattered across the image.

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Black background with white geometric lines forming interconnected squares and X shapes, four instances of pink 'AP' text scattered across the image.

Black background with white geometric lines forming interconnected squares and X shapes, four instances of pink 'AP' text scattered across the image. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeating pattern
  • symmetrical arrangement of text clusters

Dense Caption

The image features a black background overlaid with white geometric line patterns that form interconnected square and X-shaped structures. Four distinct clusters of bright pink pixelated text reading "AP" are positioned at various points within the grid: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right areas. The lines create a repeating pattern of nested squares and intersecting diagonals across the entire visual field.

Description

Black background with white geometric lines forming interconnected squares and X shapes, four instances of pink 'AP' text scattered across the image.

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
  • 200805231220051139274445

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black white pink geometric
  • four AP text clusters
  • pixelated AP on black background
  • interconnected squares X shapes

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: repeating grid pattern
  • quarantined style: grid-based
  • quarantined retrieval: black white pink geometric grid

Visible Text

  • AP

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white geometric lines
  • interconnected squares
  • X shapes
  • four 'AP' text clusters
  • pink pixelated text
  • repeating pattern

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805231220051139274445
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4f/4f1ad76698b4e7db9d42d29f7565fbcf26f6a10a107aaa92fba9186401a13936.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC
Archive ID
4f1ad76698b4e7db
SHA-256
4f1ad76698b4e7db9d42d29f7565fbcf26f6a10a107aaa92fba9186401a13936
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:19 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.144651

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Black background with white geometric lines forming interconnected squares and X shapes, four instances of pink 'AP' text scattered across the image.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 18:20 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,712 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 614

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • abstract (mood, 0.80)
  • minimalist (mood, 0.80)
  • based (style, 0.80)
  • geometric (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • repeating pattern
  • symmetrical arrangement of text clusters

Dense Caption

The image features a black background overlaid with white geometric line patterns that form interconnected square and X-shaped structures. Four distinct clusters of bright pink pixelated text reading "AP" are positioned at various points within the grid: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right areas. The lines create a repeating pattern of nested squares and intersecting diagonals across the entire visual field.

Description

Black background with white geometric lines forming interconnected squares and X shapes, four instances of pink 'AP' text scattered across the image.

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
  • 200805231220051139274445

Mood

  • abstract
  • minimalist

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black white pink geometric
  • four AP text clusters
  • pixelated AP on black background
  • interconnected squares X shapes

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: repeating grid pattern
  • quarantined style: grid-based
  • quarantined retrieval: black white pink geometric grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • geometric
  • based

Visible Text

  • AP

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white geometric lines
  • interconnected squares
  • X shapes
  • four 'AP' text clusters
  • pink pixelated text
  • 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
200805231220051139274445
Archive entry
200805231220051139274445.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 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#200805231220051139274445.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805231220051139274445.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016