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Pixelated text and colored paper clips arranged in two mirrored sections with black outlines on white background.

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Pixelated text and colored paper clips arranged in two mirrored sections with black outlines on white background.

Pixelated text and colored paper clips arranged in two mirrored sections with black outlines on white background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two mirrored sections
  • text above paper clips
  • vertical clip arrangement

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated composition of text and colorful paper clips. Two distinct mirrored sections are present: the left section shows 'paper' above 'clips' in bold, blocky, black-outlined letters; the right section shows 'gotta' above 'love em'' with identical letter styling. Below each text block are five vertical paper clips in red, green, yellow, blue, and pink from left to right. The background is solid white. All elements exhibit low-resolution pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text and colored paper clips arranged in two mirrored sections with black outlines on white 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • paper clips text
  • gotta love em' paper clips
  • mirrored pixelated text
  • red green yellow blue pink paper clips

Visible Text

  • paper
  • clips
  • gotta
  • love em'

Visually Supported Entities

  • paper clips

Wordwall

  • text: paper
  • text: clips
  • text: gotta
  • text: love em'
  • paper clips
  • red clip
  • green clip
  • yellow clip
  • blue clip
  • pink clip
  • black outlines
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • mirrored sections

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809021716571629084127
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/74/743ec00a810f3767c633bdf61141c87e58a3240ff0326e64cdecf0f5db884c12.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
743ec00a810f3767
SHA-256
743ec00a810f3767c633bdf61141c87e58a3240ff0326e64cdecf0f5db884c12
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 10:19 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000882

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 15:18 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
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four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text and colored paper clips arranged in two mirrored sections with black outlines on white background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 22:42 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,125 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 637

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
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  • mirrored layout (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • paper clips (subject, 0.80)
  • text blocks (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • green
  • yellow
  • blue
  • pink
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • two mirrored sections
  • text above paper clips
  • vertical clip arrangement

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated composition of text and colorful paper clips. Two distinct mirrored sections are present: the left section shows 'paper' above 'clips' in bold, blocky, black-outlined letters; the right section shows 'gotta' above 'love em'' with identical letter styling. Below each text block are five vertical paper clips in red, green, yellow, blue, and pink from left to right. The background is solid white. All elements exhibit low-resolution pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text and colored paper clips arranged in two mirrored sections with black outlines on white 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • paper clips text
  • gotta love em' paper clips
  • mirrored pixelated text
  • red green yellow blue pink paper clips

Objects

  • paper clips

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky letters
  • mirrored layout

Subjects

  • text blocks
  • paper clips

Visible Text

  • paper
  • clips
  • gotta
  • love em'

Visually Supported Entities

  • paper clips

Wordwall

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  • text: clips
  • text: gotta
  • text: love em'
  • paper clips
  • red clip
  • green clip
  • yellow clip
  • blue clip
  • pink clip
  • black outlines
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • mirrored sections
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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
200809021716571629084127
Archive entry
200809021716571629084127.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#200809021716571629084127.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809021716571629084127.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016