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Blue background with white text "Live Laugh Cough" in four quadrants, each with distinct lighting effects.

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Blue background with white text "Live Laugh Cough" in four quadrants, each with distinct lighting effects.

Blue background with white text "Live Laugh Cough" in four quadrants, each with distinct lighting effects. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • background gradient changes across quadrants

Animation Summary

Background gradient changes across four quadrants: solid blue (top-left), soft blue gradient (top-right), bright blue radial gradient (bottom-left), solid blue with blurred text (bottom-right).

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text vertically stacked
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Four identical text blocks reading "Live Laugh Cough" in white pixelated font on a blue background. Top-left quadrant has solid blue background with sharp text edges. Top-right quadrant has soft blue gradient background with text edges slightly blurred. Bottom-left quadrant has bright blue radial gradient background with text edges blurred and light glow. Bottom-right quadrant has solid blue background with text edges slightly blurred. All text is vertically stacked with "Live" above "Laugh" above "Cough".

Description

  • Blue background with white text "Live Laugh Cough" in four quadrants, each with distinct lighting effects.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white text Live Laugh Cough
  • four quadrants Live Laugh Cough
  • pixelated text blue gradient
  • Live Laugh Cough blue background
  • text-based icon blue gradient
  • Live Laugh Cough gradient background
  • blue radial gradient text
  • Live Laugh Cough solid blue background

Visible Text

  • Live
  • Laugh
  • Cough

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white text
  • Live Laugh Cough
  • pixelated font
  • four quadrants
  • solid blue background
  • soft blue gradient
  • bright blue radial gradient
  • text edges blurred
  • light glow

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091028090335769524015
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6f/6f484e5158c02b9ef70c56e4bf1f790d32426c4bb5860d5a5da28c952b42bfdb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
6f484e5158c02b9e
SHA-256
6f484e5158c02b9ef70c56e4bf1f790d32426c4bb5860d5a5da28c952b42bfdb
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:53 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.110570

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Blue background with white text "Live Laugh Cough" in four quadrants, each with distinct lighting effects.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 19:30 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,593 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 658

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • background gradient changes across quadrants (other, 0.80)
  • gradient effects (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • background gradient changes across quadrants

Animation Summary

Background gradient changes across four quadrants: solid blue (top-left), soft blue gradient (top-right), bright blue radial gradient (bottom-left), solid blue with blurred text (bottom-right).

Colors

  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text vertically stacked
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Four identical text blocks reading "Live Laugh Cough" in white pixelated font on a blue background. Top-left quadrant has solid blue background with sharp text edges. Top-right quadrant has soft blue gradient background with text edges slightly blurred. Bottom-left quadrant has bright blue radial gradient background with text edges blurred and light glow. Bottom-right quadrant has solid blue background with text edges slightly blurred. All text is vertically stacked with "Live" above "Laugh" above "Cough".

Description

  • Blue background with white text "Live Laugh Cough" in four quadrants, each with distinct lighting effects.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white text Live Laugh Cough
  • four quadrants Live Laugh Cough
  • pixelated text blue gradient
  • Live Laugh Cough blue background
  • text-based icon blue gradient
  • Live Laugh Cough gradient background
  • blue radial gradient text
  • Live Laugh Cough solid blue background

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • gradient effects

Visible Text

  • Live
  • Laugh
  • Cough

Wordwall

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  • white text
  • Live Laugh Cough
  • pixelated font
  • four quadrants
  • solid blue background
  • soft blue gradient
  • bright blue radial gradient
  • text edges blurred
  • light glow
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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
20091028090335769524015
Archive entry
20091028090335769524015.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#20091028090335769524015.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20091028090335769524015.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016