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Pixelated smiley face icons arranged in a with text overlays on a blue background

Pixelated smiley face icons arranged in a with text overlays on a blue background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-20…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text overlays
  • partial gray rectangle

Dense Caption

Sixteen pixelated smiley face icons arranged in a 4x4 grid on a solid blue background. Icons alternate between pink, yellow, and orange colors with black eyes and brown smiles. Two text overlays appear: 'smileyU' in pink at the top-left and 'cupcakes' in blue with a small blue heart at the bottom-left. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation. The rightmost column of the grid is partially obscured by a gray rectangle.

Description

  • Pixelated smiley face icons arranged in a with text overlays on a blue background

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200807100951092005584542
  • 20080710095110217467977

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • smileyU cupcakes
  • pixelated smiley faces
  • blue background smiley icons
  • text overlays smiley icons
  • retro digital smiley

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray rectangle obscures rightmost column
  • quarantined description: Pixelated smiley face icons arranged in a grid with text overlays on a blue background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 4x4 grid
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 4x4 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: retro digital smiley 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Visible Text

  • smileyU
  • cupcakes

Wordwall

  • smiley faces
  • pixelated
  • blue background
  • pink text
  • blue text
  • heart symbol
  • orange icons
  • yellow icons
  • pink icons
  • text overlays
  • low resolution
  • retro digital
  • partial gray rectangle
  • 16 icons
  • black eyes
  • brown smiles
  • solid blue background
  • small heart

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807100951092005584542
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080710095110217467977
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6d/6dddf9b416c532b67186e5638d47627168401fb9f1da7ff78b0c4b8f771e189b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Archive ID
6dddf9b416c532b6
SHA-256
6dddf9b416c532b67186e5638d47627168401fb9f1da7ff78b0c4b8f771e189b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:52 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085027

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.925360onnx/unsafe0.085027onnx/nsfw0.050920onnx/nsfl0.034108
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated smiley face icons arranged in a with text overlays on a blue background

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 11:40 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,988 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,157, response 813

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • text overlays (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • smiley faces (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • pink
  • yellow
  • orange
  • black
  • brown

Composition

  • text overlays
  • partial gray rectangle

Dense Caption

Sixteen pixelated smiley face icons arranged in a 4x4 grid on a solid blue background. Icons alternate between pink, yellow, and orange colors with black eyes and brown smiles. Two text overlays appear: 'smileyU' in pink at the top-left and 'cupcakes' in blue with a small blue heart at the bottom-left. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation. The rightmost column of the grid is partially obscured by a gray rectangle.

Description

  • Pixelated smiley face icons arranged in a with text overlays on a blue background

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200807100951092005584542
  • 20080710095110217467977

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • cheerful
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • smileyU cupcakes
  • pixelated smiley faces
  • blue background smiley icons
  • text overlays smiley icons
  • retro digital smiley

Objects

  • text overlays
  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray rectangle obscures rightmost column
  • quarantined description: Pixelated smiley face icons arranged in a grid with text overlays on a blue background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 4x4 grid
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 4x4 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: retro digital smiley 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • smiley faces

Visible Text

  • smileyU
  • cupcakes

Wordwall

  • smiley faces
  • pixelated
  • blue background
  • pink text
  • blue text
  • heart symbol
  • orange icons
  • yellow icons
  • pink icons
  • text overlays
  • low resolution
  • retro digital
  • partial gray rectangle
  • 16 icons
  • black eyes
  • brown smiles
  • solid blue background
  • small heart
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Full source records (2)

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
200807100951092005584542
Archive entry
200807100951092005584542.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#200807100951092005584542.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807100951092005584542.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20080710095110217467977
Archive entry
20080710095110217467977.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#20080710095110217467977.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080710095110217467977.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016