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Pixelated cyan and magenta text 'carle' repeated four times on black background with cyan border elements.

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Pixelated cyan and magenta text 'carle' repeated four times on black background with cyan border elements.

Pixelated cyan and magenta text 'carle' repeated four times on black background with cyan border elements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image

Composition

  • four corners
  • central starburst
  • irregular borders

Dense Caption

Black background features four instances of the word 'carle' in stylized magenta pixel font, each positioned near a corner. Cyan pixel art borders form irregular shapes around the corners and center. The central area contains a cyan starburst pattern made of scattered pixels. All text and decorative elements are rendered with low-resolution 8-bit style graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan and magenta text 'carle' repeated four times on black background with cyan border elements.

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

  • cyan magenta carle pixel art
  • four carle text cyan border
  • black background starburst pattern
  • pixelated carle cyan border

Visible Text

  • carle

Visually Supported Entities

  • carle

Wordwall

  • cyan border
  • magenta 'carle'
  • black background
  • starburst pattern
  • pixel art
  • four instances
  • stylized font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711090607521496611109
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 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
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC
Archive ID
71b9d94e102ab56b
SHA-256
71b9d94e102ab56b0e161c7be11b02db60c179b8905d03db60ccd574bc416155
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:56 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.192818

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cyan and magenta text 'carle' repeated four times on black background with cyan border elements.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 16:24 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,319 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 568

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • retro (mood, 0.80)
  • static image (other, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • border elements (subject, 0.80)
  • starburst pattern (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image

Colors

  • cyan
  • magenta
  • black

Composition

  • four corners
  • central starburst
  • irregular borders

Dense Caption

Black background features four instances of the word 'carle' in stylized magenta pixel font, each positioned near a corner. Cyan pixel art borders form irregular shapes around the corners and center. The central area contains a cyan starburst pattern made of scattered pixels. All text and decorative elements are rendered with low-resolution 8-bit style graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan and magenta text 'carle' repeated four times on black background with cyan border elements.

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

Mood

  • retro
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan magenta carle pixel art
  • four carle text cyan border
  • black background starburst pattern
  • pixelated carle cyan border

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • text
  • border elements
  • starburst pattern

Visible Text

  • carle

Visually Supported Entities

  • carle

Wordwall

  • cyan border
  • magenta 'carle'
  • black background
  • starburst pattern
  • pixel art
  • four instances
  • stylized font
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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
200711090607521496611109
Archive entry
200711090607521496611109.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 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#200711090607521496611109.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711090607521496611109.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016