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Pixelated circular icon with neon-colored geometric shapes forming a stylized 'A' and 'B' around a central black band containing pink text.

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Pixelated circular icon with neon-colored geometric shapes forming a stylized 'A' and 'B' around a central black band containing pink text.

Pixelated circular icon with neon-colored geometric shapes forming a stylized 'A' and 'B' around a central black band containing pink text. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • circular
  • symmetrical
  • central text band
  • four quadrants

Dense Caption

Pixelated circular icon with a black background. A silver-gray checkered ring forms the outer border. Four colored geometric shapes (yellow, red, green, cyan) form stylized 'A' and 'B' shapes around the center. A solid black horizontal band crosses the middle, containing the text 'LOREN' in bright pink block letters. Small pink square accents flank the text on both sides. The icon has a retro digital aesthetic with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated circular icon with neon-colored geometric shapes forming a stylized 'A' and 'B' around a central black band containing pink text.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • neon pixel art icon
  • pink text LOREN
  • circular checkered border
  • stylized A and B shapes
  • retro digital text icon
  • geometric shapes pink squares
  • black background pixel art
  • silver-gray ring icon

Visible Text

  • LOREN

Wordwall

  • neon colors
  • pixelated
  • circular
  • checkered border
  • stylized A and B
  • black band
  • pink text
  • small pink squares
  • retro digital
  • geometric shapes
  • silver-gray ring
  • yellow shape
  • red shape
  • green shape
  • cyan shape
  • black background
  • text 'LOREN'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090112170513960085704
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/56/5654587505d130bfb8a1eeda47ad55ff872a0a58cd76a13ee48f777f62f5f96d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC
Archive ID
5654587505d130bf
SHA-256
5654587505d130bfb8a1eeda47ad55ff872a0a58cd76a13ee48f777f62f5f96d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:29 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081099

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated circular icon with neon-colored geometric shapes forming a stylized 'A' and 'B' around a central black band containing pink text.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 17:57 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,195 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 758

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • silver gray (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • black band (object, 0.80)
  • checkered border (object, 0.80)
  • small pink squares (object, 0.80)
  • neon (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • geometric shapes (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • silver-gray
  • yellow
  • red
  • green
  • cyan
  • pink

Composition

  • circular
  • symmetrical
  • central text band
  • four quadrants

Dense Caption

Pixelated circular icon with a black background. A silver-gray checkered ring forms the outer border. Four colored geometric shapes (yellow, red, green, cyan) form stylized 'A' and 'B' shapes around the center. A solid black horizontal band crosses the middle, containing the text 'LOREN' in bright pink block letters. Small pink square accents flank the text on both sides. The icon has a retro digital aesthetic with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated circular icon with neon-colored geometric shapes forming a stylized 'A' and 'B' around a central black band containing pink text.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • pink text LOREN
  • circular checkered border
  • stylized A and B shapes
  • retro digital text icon
  • geometric shapes pink squares
  • black background pixel art
  • silver-gray ring icon

Objects

  • text
  • geometric shapes
  • checkered border
  • black band
  • small pink squares

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • neon

Subjects

  • text
  • geometric shapes

Visible Text

  • LOREN

Wordwall

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  • pixelated
  • circular
  • checkered border
  • stylized A and B
  • black band
  • pink text
  • small pink squares
  • retro digital
  • geometric shapes
  • silver-gray ring
  • yellow shape
  • red shape
  • green shape
  • cyan shape
  • black background
  • text 'LOREN'
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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
20090112170513960085704
Archive entry
20090112170513960085704.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 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#20090112170513960085704.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090112170513960085704.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016