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Blue background with dark blue branching patterns and four instances of the text 'CAROL' in white pixelated font.

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Blue background with dark blue branching patterns and four instances of the text 'CAROL' in white pixelated font.

Blue background with dark blue branching patterns and four instances of the text 'CAROL' in white pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four 'CAROL' texts
  • top and bottom placement
  • symmetrical branching patterns

Dense Caption

Blue background with dark blue branching patterns. Four instances of the text 'CAROL' in white pixelated font: two at the top, two at the bottom. Each 'CAROL' has a small white star-like symbol replacing the dot on the 'O'. The text and patterns are static with no visible animation changes. The image uses a limited color palette of blue and white.

Description

  • Blue background with dark blue branching patterns and four instances of the text 'CAROL' in white pixelated font.

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

  • blue background carol text
  • carol white pixelated star o
  • four carol texts blue background
  • static blue white pixel art

Visible Text

  • CAROL

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • dark blue branching patterns
  • four 'CAROL' texts
  • white pixelated font
  • small white star on 'O'
  • static image
  • limited color palette

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070807140826895449990
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/69/694ee47882b5d5609071c54367df721a324f17221e860258f4b25a4148834651.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
694ee47882b5d560
SHA-256
694ee47882b5d5609071c54367df721a324f17221e860258f4b25a4148834651
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:47 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.099832

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue background with dark blue branching patterns and four instances of the text 'CAROL' in white pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 20:16 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,063 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 646

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • dark blue
  • white

Composition

  • four 'CAROL' texts
  • top and bottom placement
  • symmetrical branching patterns

Dense Caption

Blue background with dark blue branching patterns. Four instances of the text 'CAROL' in white pixelated font: two at the top, two at the bottom. Each 'CAROL' has a small white star-like symbol replacing the dot on the 'O'. The text and patterns are static with no visible animation changes. The image uses a limited color palette of blue and white.

Description

  • Blue background with dark blue branching patterns and four instances of the text 'CAROL' in white pixelated font.

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

  • blue background carol text
  • carol white pixelated star o
  • four carol texts blue background
  • static blue white pixel art

Style

  • pixelated
  • static

Visible Text

  • CAROL

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • dark blue branching patterns
  • four 'CAROL' texts
  • white pixelated font
  • small white star on 'O'
  • static image
  • limited color palette
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:44 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20070807140826895449990
Archive entry
20070807140826895449990.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#20070807140826895449990.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070807140826895449990.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016