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A red butterfly with brown and orange wing tips on a white background, next to pixelated text and heart symbols on a bright pink background.

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A red butterfly with brown and orange wing tips on a white background, next to pixelated text and heart symbols on a bright pink background.

A red butterfly with brown and orange wing tips on a white background, next to pixelated text and heart symbols on a bright pink background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central butterfly on white
  • text and symbols on pink background

Dense Caption

The image contains a central red butterfly with brown and orange wing tips on a white background. To the right and below, on a bright pink background, there is pixelated text reading 'gabby' with a small heart symbol, 'coin' with a small heart symbol, and a separate small heart symbol. The butterfly has four wings with visible wing patterns and a dark body. The text and symbols are rendered in a pixelated style with black characters and purple heart symbols. The image is divided into two main sections: the butterfly on white and the text/symbols on pink.

Description

  • A red butterfly with brown and orange wing tips on a white background, next to pixelated text and heart symbols on a bright pink background.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red butterfly heart symbols
  • butterfly pink background text
  • gabby coin heart symbols
  • pixelated butterfly text
  • butterfly white pink background
  • red butterfly brown orange tips
  • butterfly four wings dark body
  • gabby coin purple hearts

Objects

  • heart symbols

Subjects

  • butterfly

Visible Text

  • gabby
  • coin

Wordwall

  • red butterfly
  • brown and orange wing tips
  • white background
  • bright pink background
  • pixelated text
  • 'gabby' text
  • 'coin' text
  • small heart symbols
  • four wings
  • dark body
  • black text
  • purple hearts
  • central butterfly
  • text on pink background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071128153551827102128
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 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 15:00 UTC
Archive ID
4fb5bba0fed5009b
SHA-256
4fb5bba0fed5009b1fa2a76d9fc3ba0a867734096b468f98d6ab97ddddcea9c1
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A red butterfly with brown and orange wing tips on a white background, next to pixelated text and heart symbols on a bright pink background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 12:06 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,478 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,104, response 767

Review tags

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  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • heart symbols (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • butterfly (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • brown
  • orange
  • white
  • bright pink
  • black
  • purple

Composition

  • central butterfly on white
  • text and symbols on pink background

Dense Caption

The image contains a central red butterfly with brown and orange wing tips on a white background. To the right and below, on a bright pink background, there is pixelated text reading 'gabby' with a small heart symbol, 'coin' with a small heart symbol, and a separate small heart symbol. The butterfly has four wings with visible wing patterns and a dark body. The text and symbols are rendered in a pixelated style with black characters and purple heart symbols. The image is divided into two main sections: the butterfly on white and the text/symbols on pink.

Description

  • A red butterfly with brown and orange wing tips on a white background, next to pixelated text and heart symbols on a bright pink background.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

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

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  • butterfly white pink background
  • red butterfly brown orange tips
  • butterfly four wings dark body
  • gabby coin purple hearts

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  • brown and orange wing tips
  • white background
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  • 'coin' text
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  • dark body
  • black text
  • purple hearts
  • central butterfly
  • text on pink background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
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July 28, 2026 at 21:41 UTC
Run
53
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
20071128153551827102128
Archive entry
20071128153551827102128.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 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#20071128153551827102128.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071128153551827102128.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016