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Four circular icons with black-and-white patterned backgrounds display text in colored pixelated fonts.

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Four circular icons with black-and-white patterned backgrounds display text in colored pixelated fonts.

Four circular icons with black-and-white patterned backgrounds display text in colored pixelated fonts. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four icons
  • text centered within each circle

Dense Caption

Four circular icons with black-and-white patterned backgrounds display text in colored pixelated fonts. Top-left icon: 'ILY' in blue, 'amanda' in blue, 'smith<3' in blue. Top-right icon: 'zebras<3' in red. Bottom-left icon: 'sugar' in pink, 'rushes' in pink. Bottom-right icon: 'aree so' in blue, 'cool!' in blue. All icons share identical background patterns.

Description

  • Four circular icons with black-and-white patterned backgrounds display text in colored pixelated fonts.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090224155209695766260

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • buddy icons four circular
  • pixelated text blue red pink
  • amanda smith<3 zebras<3
  • sugar rushes aree so cool!

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; all frames identical
  • quarantined composition: four icons arranged in 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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • ILY
  • amanda
  • smith<3
  • zebras<3
  • sugar
  • rushes
  • aree so
  • cool!

Wordwall

  • four circular icons
  • black-and-white patterned backgrounds
  • colored pixelated text
  • ILY amanda smith<3
  • zebras<3
  • sugar rushes
  • aree so cool!
  • identical background patterns

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090224155209695766260
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5d/5d4a0ebf2490edd11291c6d195545ace8884771dd18588112f88452c62ddb66d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
5d4a0ebf2490edd1
SHA-256
5d4a0ebf2490edd11291c6d195545ace8884771dd18588112f88452c62ddb66d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:36 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078470

OpenAI category scores

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Four circular icons with black-and-white patterned backgrounds display text in colored pixelated fonts.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 00:29 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,762 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 844

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • circular (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • pink

Composition

  • four icons
  • text centered within each circle

Dense Caption

Four circular icons with black-and-white patterned backgrounds display text in colored pixelated fonts. Top-left icon: 'ILY' in blue, 'amanda' in blue, 'smith<3' in blue. Top-right icon: 'zebras<3' in red. Bottom-left icon: 'sugar' in pink, 'rushes' in pink. Bottom-right icon: 'aree so' in blue, 'cool!' in blue. All icons share identical background patterns.

Description

  • Four circular icons with black-and-white patterned backgrounds display text in colored pixelated fonts.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090224155209695766260

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • buddy icons four circular
  • pixelated text blue red pink
  • amanda smith<3 zebras<3
  • sugar rushes aree so cool!

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; all frames identical
  • quarantined composition: four icons arranged in 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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • circular

Visible Text

  • ILY
  • amanda
  • smith<3
  • zebras<3
  • sugar
  • rushes
  • aree so
  • cool!

Wordwall

  • four circular icons
  • black-and-white patterned backgrounds
  • colored pixelated text
  • ILY amanda smith<3
  • zebras<3
  • sugar rushes
  • aree so cool!
  • identical background patterns
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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
20090224155209695766260
Archive entry
20090224155209695766260.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#20090224155209695766260.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090224155209695766260.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016