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Four circular white icons on red background with black text 'john cohen' and '3' in pixelated font, each icon showing slight variation in text alignment and blur.

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Four circular white icons on red background with black text 'john cohen' and '3' in pixelated font, each icon showing slight variation in text alignment and blur.

Four circular white icons on red background with black text 'john cohen' and '3' in pixelated font, each icon showing slight variation in text alignment and blur. Animated 48×48 G…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text alignment shifts
  • blur variations

Animation Summary

  • Text alignment and blur variations across four views

Composition

  • circular icons
  • text centered
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Four circular white icons on solid red background. Each icon contains black pixelated text: 'john cohen' in two lines (first line 'john', second line 'cohen') and '3' below. Icons show slight variations in text alignment and blur across four views. Text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style. Background is uniform solid red. Icons are arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each icon is a distinct circular shape with white fill and red border. Text 'john cohen' appears in lowercase letters. The number '3' is centered below 'cohen'.

Description

Four circular white icons on red background with black text 'john cohen' and '3' in pixelated font, each icon showing slight variation in text alignment and blur.

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

  • unconfirmed retrieval not promoted: buddy icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • john cohen 3
  • red background white circles
  • pixelated text
  • text alignment variation
  • blur variation
  • lowercase letters

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte present
  • no cropping observed
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • john cohen
  • 3

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white circles
  • black text
  • john cohen
  • 3
  • pixelated font
  • text alignment variation
  • blur variation
  • lowercase letters
  • blocky style
  • solid color background
  • circular icons
  • text centered
  • four icons
  • uniform red
  • white fill
  • red border
  • text lines
  • number 3

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200906070804341944748845
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4f/4f8afd2f5012a326ed8a744f25804c30bef42cce112c95eb26b5b5f313498ffa.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
4f8afd2f5012a326
SHA-256
4f8afd2f5012a326ed8a744f25804c30bef42cce112c95eb26b5b5f313498ffa
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:20 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079619

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.922182onnx/unsafe0.079619onnx/nsfw0.043092onnx/nsfl0.036527
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Four circular white icons on red background with black text 'john cohen' and '3' in pixelated font, each icon showing slight variation in text alignment and blur.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 11:42 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,555 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 842

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blur variations (other, 0.80)
  • text alignment shifts (other, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • text alignment shifts
  • blur variations

Animation Summary

  • Text alignment and blur variations across four views

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • circular icons
  • text centered
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Four circular white icons on solid red background. Each icon contains black pixelated text: 'john cohen' in two lines (first line 'john', second line 'cohen') and '3' below. Icons show slight variations in text alignment and blur across four views. Text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style. Background is uniform solid red. Icons are arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each icon is a distinct circular shape with white fill and red border. Text 'john cohen' appears in lowercase letters. The number '3' is centered below 'cohen'.

Description

Four circular white icons on red background with black text 'john cohen' and '3' in pixelated font, each icon showing slight variation in text alignment and blur.

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

  • unconfirmed retrieval not promoted: buddy icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • john cohen 3
  • red background white circles
  • pixelated text
  • text alignment variation
  • blur variation
  • lowercase letters

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte present
  • no cropping observed
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • john cohen
  • 3

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white circles
  • black text
  • john cohen
  • 3
  • pixelated font
  • text alignment variation
  • blur variation
  • lowercase letters
  • blocky style
  • solid color background
  • circular icons
  • text centered
  • four icons
  • uniform red
  • white fill
  • red border
  • text lines
  • number 3
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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
200906070804341944748845
Archive entry
200906070804341944748845.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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#200906070804341944748845.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200906070804341944748845.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016