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Pixelated image with yellow background, blue text, and Pokémon characters under a rainbow.

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Pixelated image with yellow background, blue text, and Pokémon characters under a rainbow.

Pixelated image with yellow background, blue text, and Pokémon characters under a rainbow. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left with characters and sky
  • right with text

Dense Caption

Yellow background. Blue pixelated text: 'I LOVE POKEMON' top-right; 'POKEMON ROCKS MY SOCKS OFF' bottom-left; 'I LOVE MY POKEMON BUDDY KATE' bottom-right. Left panel features blue sky with white clouds, yellow 'Pokémon' logo in blue outline, rainbow arching over four Pokémon characters (Pikachu, Squirtle, Bulbasaur, Charmander) standing together.

Description

  • Pixelated image with yellow background, blue text, and Pokémon characters under a rainbow.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pokémon rainbow pikachu squirtle bulbasaur charmander
  • yellow background blue text pokemon rocks socks off
  • i love pokemon buddy kate
  • pikachu squirtle bulbasaur charmander sky clouds

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: right panel with text
  • quarantined composition: left panel with characters and sky

Visible Text

  • I LOVE POKEMON
  • POKEMON ROCKS MY SOCKS OFF
  • I LOVE MY POKEMON BUDDY KATE

Visually Supported Entities

  • Pokémon
  • Pikachu
  • Squirtle
  • Bulbasaur
  • Charmander

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • blue pixelated text
  • I LOVE POKEMON
  • POKEMON ROCKS MY SOCKS OFF
  • I LOVE MY POKEMON BUDDY KATE
  • Pokémon logo
  • rainbow arch
  • Pikachu
  • Squirtle
  • Bulbasaur
  • Charmander
  • blue sky with white clouds

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071007104904569010408
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/72/7202e6df40dca9ea1fe9b5cada8d199d9d4964587725e6091aa161f2363136f7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC
Archive ID
7202e6df40dca9ea
SHA-256
7202e6df40dca9ea1fe9b5cada8d199d9d4964587725e6091aa161f2363136f7
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.175249

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image with yellow background, blue text, and Pokémon characters under a rainbow.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 08:04 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,665 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 732

Review tags

  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • clouds (object, 0.80)
  • pokémon logo (object, 0.80)
  • rainbow (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro video game (style, 0.80)
  • bulbasaur (subject, 0.80)
  • charmander (subject, 0.80)
  • pikachu (subject, 0.80)
  • squirtle (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • red
  • orange
  • green
  • purple
  • white

Composition

  • left with characters and sky
  • right with text

Dense Caption

Yellow background. Blue pixelated text: 'I LOVE POKEMON' top-right; 'POKEMON ROCKS MY SOCKS OFF' bottom-left; 'I LOVE MY POKEMON BUDDY KATE' bottom-right. Left panel features blue sky with white clouds, yellow 'Pokémon' logo in blue outline, rainbow arching over four Pokémon characters (Pikachu, Squirtle, Bulbasaur, Charmander) standing together.

Description

  • Pixelated image with yellow background, blue text, and Pokémon characters under a rainbow.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • cheerful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pokémon rainbow pikachu squirtle bulbasaur charmander
  • yellow background blue text pokemon rocks socks off
  • i love pokemon buddy kate
  • pikachu squirtle bulbasaur charmander sky clouds

Objects

  • rainbow
  • clouds
  • Pokémon logo

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: right panel with text
  • quarantined composition: left panel with characters and sky

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro video game

Subjects

  • Pikachu
  • Squirtle
  • Bulbasaur
  • Charmander

Visible Text

  • I LOVE POKEMON
  • POKEMON ROCKS MY SOCKS OFF
  • I LOVE MY POKEMON BUDDY KATE

Visually Supported Entities

  • Pokémon
  • Pikachu
  • Squirtle
  • Bulbasaur
  • Charmander

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • blue pixelated text
  • I LOVE POKEMON
  • POKEMON ROCKS MY SOCKS OFF
  • I LOVE MY POKEMON BUDDY KATE
  • Pokémon logo
  • rainbow arch
  • Pikachu
  • Squirtle
  • Bulbasaur
  • Charmander
  • blue sky with white clouds
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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
20071007104904569010408
Archive entry
20071007104904569010408.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 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#20071007104904569010408.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071007104904569010408.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016