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Pixelated image with dark background showing partial text fragments and a purple-and-white pixelated shape resembling a stylized creature or object.

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Pixelated image with dark background showing partial text fragments and a purple-and-white pixelated shape resembling a stylized creature or object.

Pixelated image with dark background showing partial text fragments and a purple-and-white pixelated shape resembling a stylized creature or object. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Source terms

Composition

  • text fragments scattered across top and bottom
  • large shape on right side

Dense Caption

Dark background. Partially visible gray text fragments: 'Imo', 'Draow', 'to be', 'and w'. A large, pixelated purple-and-white shape on the right side resembles a stylized creature with rounded forms and layered sections; its color transitions from deep purple to light lavender. The image is low-resolution with blocky pixels typical of early digital graphics.

Description

Pixelated image with dark background showing partial text fragments and a purple-and-white pixelated shape resembling a stylized creature or object.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200810202010091079452899

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated purple creature text fragments
  • dark background gray text
  • stylized shape and partial words
  • low-resolution digital graphics

Visible Text

  • Imo
  • Draow
  • to be
  • and w

Visually Supported Entities

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

Wordwall

  • dark background
  • gray text fragments
  • 'Imo' visible
  • 'Draow' visible
  • 'to be' visible
  • 'and w' visible
  • purple-and-white shape
  • stylized creature-like form
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810202010091079452899
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6b/6bd66c960075e51fcd2c27c313fefed2876958bfafbc47e0b39386140263d0b2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
6bd66c960075e51f
SHA-256
6bd66c960075e51fcd2c27c313fefed2876958bfafbc47e0b39386140263d0b2
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:50 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.071944

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image with dark background showing partial text fragments and a purple-and-white pixelated shape resembling a stylized creature or object.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 05:01 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,222 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 654

Review tags

  • dark background (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stylized purple and white shape (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark background
  • gray
  • purple
  • white

Composition

  • text fragments scattered across top and bottom
  • large shape on right side

Dense Caption

Dark background. Partially visible gray text fragments: 'Imo', 'Draow', 'to be', 'and w'. A large, pixelated purple-and-white shape on the right side resembles a stylized creature with rounded forms and layered sections; its color transitions from deep purple to light lavender. The image is low-resolution with blocky pixels typical of early digital graphics.

Description

Pixelated image with dark background showing partial text fragments and a purple-and-white pixelated shape resembling a stylized creature or object.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200810202010091079452899

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated purple creature text fragments
  • dark background gray text
  • stylized shape and partial words
  • low-resolution digital graphics

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution digital graphics

Subjects

  • stylized purple-and-white shape

Visible Text

  • Imo
  • Draow
  • to be
  • and w

Visually Supported Entities

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

Wordwall

  • dark background
  • gray text fragments
  • 'Imo' visible
  • 'Draow' visible
  • 'to be' visible
  • 'and w' visible
  • purple-and-white shape
  • stylized creature-like form
  • pixelated rendering
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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
200810202010091079452899
Archive entry
200810202010091079452899.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#200810202010091079452899.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810202010091079452899.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016