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Static image with bold text overlays on a patterned background featuring swirling yellow, white, and gray shapes.

Static image with bold text overlays on a patterned background featuring swirling yellow, white, and gray shapes. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text blocks in upper left, upper right, lower left
  • solid gray rectangle on right
  • swirling background shapes

Dense Caption

The image displays a static composition with three distinct text blocks: "THE" in the upper left, "KEWLAST" in the upper right, and "ICON" in the lower left. All text is rendered in bold, white, sans-serif capital letters with black outlines. The background consists of a repeating pattern of swirling, abstract shapes in yellow, white, and gray tones. The right side of the image features a solid light gray rectangular area. The overall visual style is pixelated with a retro digital aesthetic.

Description

  • Static image with bold text overlays on a patterned background featuring swirling yellow, white, and gray shapes.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • the kewlast icon
  • the icon text
  • yellow white gray swirls
  • solid gray rectangle
  • bold white text black outline
  • pixelated retro digital
  • swirling shapes background
  • text blocks upper left upper right lower left

Visible Text

  • THE
  • KEWLAST
  • ICON

Wordwall

  • bold white text
  • black outlines
  • swirling shapes
  • yellow white gray
  • solid gray rectangle
  • pixelated
  • repeating pattern
  • upper left text
  • upper right text
  • lower left text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807181907181817214675
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/63/63ba31bdd0677bf2a8a33f8e246a910fc384e7da9f254b21942962fe9d59561b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
63ba31bdd0677bf2
SHA-256
63ba31bdd0677bf2a8a33f8e246a910fc384e7da9f254b21942962fe9d59561b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:42 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082878

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.922408onnx/unsafe0.082878onnx/nsfw0.051232onnx/nsfl0.031646
Enrichment records (1)
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Static image with bold text overlays on a patterned background featuring swirling yellow, white, and gray shapes.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 13:06 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,445 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 705

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • bold text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • white
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • text blocks in upper left, upper right, lower left
  • solid gray rectangle on right
  • swirling background shapes

Dense Caption

The image displays a static composition with three distinct text blocks: "THE" in the upper left, "KEWLAST" in the upper right, and "ICON" in the lower left. All text is rendered in bold, white, sans-serif capital letters with black outlines. The background consists of a repeating pattern of swirling, abstract shapes in yellow, white, and gray tones. The right side of the image features a solid light gray rectangular area. The overall visual style is pixelated with a retro digital aesthetic.

Description

  • Static image with bold text overlays on a patterned background featuring swirling yellow, white, and gray shapes.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • the kewlast icon
  • the icon text
  • yellow white gray swirls
  • solid gray rectangle
  • bold white text black outline
  • pixelated retro digital
  • swirling shapes background
  • text blocks upper left upper right lower left

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • bold text
  • repeating pattern

Visible Text

  • THE
  • KEWLAST
  • ICON

Wordwall

  • bold white text
  • black outlines
  • swirling shapes
  • yellow white gray
  • solid gray rectangle
  • pixelated
  • repeating pattern
  • upper left text
  • upper right text
  • lower left text
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TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200807181907181817214675
Archive entry
200807181907181817214675.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#200807181907181817214675.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807181907181817214675.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016