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Pixelated text "TINKY WINKY" appears in four quadrants over a cyan background with overlapping pink and purple circles.

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Pixelated text "TINKY WINKY" appears in four quadrants over a cyan background with overlapping pink and purple circles.

Pixelated text "TINKY WINKY" appears in four quadrants over a cyan background with overlapping pink and purple circles. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fra…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four identical text blocks
  • overlapping circles background

Dense Caption

Cyan background features overlapping semi-transparent circles in shades of pink and lavender. Four identical instances of pixelated black text reading "TINKY WINKY" are positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right quadrants. Each text block consists of two lines: "TINKY" above "WINKY". The circles vary in size and overlap each other across the background.

Description

  • Pixelated text "TINKY WINKY" appears in four quadrants over a cyan background with overlapping pink and purple circles.

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
  • 20081102075249272550913

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • tinky winky pixel art
  • cyan pink lavender circles text
  • four quadrant tinky winky
  • pixelated tinky winky cyan background

Visible Text

  • TINKY
  • WINKY

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pink circles
  • lavender circles
  • pixelated text
  • "TINKY WINKY"
  • four quadrants

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081102075249272550913
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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
icons/5b/5b07164abb134c4016078301177f7898d157c8d0daf793aff7035cc320461416.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
5b07164abb134c40
SHA-256
5b07164abb134c4016078301177f7898d157c8d0daf793aff7035cc320461416
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:33 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.120648

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Pixelated text "TINKY WINKY" appears in four quadrants over a cyan background with overlapping pink and purple circles.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 06:36 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,082 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 623

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • lavender (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • pink
  • lavender

Composition

  • four identical text blocks
  • overlapping circles background

Dense Caption

Cyan background features overlapping semi-transparent circles in shades of pink and lavender. Four identical instances of pixelated black text reading "TINKY WINKY" are positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right quadrants. Each text block consists of two lines: "TINKY" above "WINKY". The circles vary in size and overlap each other across the background.

Description

  • Pixelated text "TINKY WINKY" appears in four quadrants over a cyan background with overlapping pink and purple circles.

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
  • 20081102075249272550913

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • tinky winky pixel art
  • cyan pink lavender circles text
  • four quadrant tinky winky
  • pixelated tinky winky cyan background

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • TINKY
  • WINKY

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pink circles
  • lavender circles
  • pixelated text
  • "TINKY WINKY"
  • four quadrants
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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
20081102075249272550913
Archive entry
20081102075249272550913.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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#20081102075249272550913.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081102075249272550913.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016