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Pixelated purple and pink shapes on a cyan background, with multiple instances of overlapping squares and curved lines.

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Pixelated purple and pink shapes on a cyan background, with multiple instances of overlapping squares and curved lines.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • like arrangement
  • symmetrical placement of elements

Dense Caption

Cyan background contains repeated pixel art elements: purple square clusters (each cluster has three nested squares with small dots above/below) appear in four positions; two separate pink curved line shapes resembling stylized 'G' or parentheses are present. All elements maintain consistent size, color, and orientation across all visible frames.

Description

  • Pixelated purple and pink shapes on a cyan background, with multiple instances of overlapping squares and curved lines.

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
  • 200810090850281243878144

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pixel art
  • purple square clusters pink lines
  • repeated pattern cyan purple pink
  • pixelated shapes

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid-like arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated shapes grid layout

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • purple square clusters
  • pink curved lines
  • pixel art style
  • repeated patterns

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810090850281243878144
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
455 bytes
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 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
66b103f14af4c3c3
SHA-256
66b103f14af4c3c369243840f54b5a3a89f874fd2474ace1554faa55a29a9684
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 05:44 UTC
Run
1201
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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July 23, 2026 at 16:45 UTC
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Pixelated purple and pink shapes on a cyan background, with multiple instances of overlapping squares and curved lines.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 03:25 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,952 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 596

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • lines (object, 0.80)
  • squares (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive pattern (style, 0.80)
  • curved line shapes (subject, 0.80)
  • square clusters (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • purple
  • pink

Composition

  • like arrangement
  • symmetrical placement of elements

Dense Caption

Cyan background contains repeated pixel art elements: purple square clusters (each cluster has three nested squares with small dots above/below) appear in four positions; two separate pink curved line shapes resembling stylized 'G' or parentheses are present. All elements maintain consistent size, color, and orientation across all visible frames.

Description

  • Pixelated purple and pink shapes on a cyan background, with multiple instances of overlapping squares and curved lines.

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
  • 200810090850281243878144

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pixel art
  • purple square clusters pink lines
  • repeated pattern cyan purple pink
  • pixelated shapes

Objects

  • squares
  • dots
  • lines

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid-like arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated shapes grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • repetitive pattern

Subjects

  • square clusters
  • curved line shapes

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • purple square clusters
  • pink curved lines
  • pixel art style
  • repeated 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
200810090850281243878144
Archive entry
200810090850281243878144.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#200810090850281243878144.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810090850281243878144.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016