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A static image divided into four quadrants with distinct backgrounds and text elements.

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A static image divided into four quadrants with distinct backgrounds and text elements.

A static image divided into four quadrants with distinct backgrounds and text elements. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, La…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text-centered in each quadrant

Dense Caption

Top-left quadrant: bright magenta background, black outlined white '<3' symbol above 'Friends' text. Top-right quadrant: light yellow star-patterned background, red text reading 'lissy', 'rissy', 'erin'. Bottom-left quadrant: gray background with blue swirls, three lines of white text: 'sarah', 'livi', 'caitlin'. Bottom-right quadrant: solid light gray background.

Description

  • A static image divided into four quadrants with distinct backgrounds and text 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200805211628131049594028

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • magenta star gray swirl
  • lissy rissy erin sarah livi caitlin
  • <3 Friends text
  • four quadrant

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four quadrant grid

Visible Text

  • <3
  • Friends
  • lissy
  • rissy
  • erin
  • sarah
  • livi
  • caitlin

Wordwall

  • <3 symbol
  • Friends text
  • lissy rissy erin text
  • sarah livi caitlin text
  • magenta background
  • star-patterned background
  • gray swirl background
  • light gray background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805211628131049594028
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/76/7677c727e78510b459083feeac4dd5a80ed7e919c42fe73657fb92d2d940a52f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC
Archive ID
7677c727e78510b4
SHA-256
7677c727e78510b459083feeac4dd5a80ed7e919c42fe73657fb92d2d940a52f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:01 UTC
Run
1045
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.123526

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A static image divided into four quadrants with distinct backgrounds and text elements.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 17:45 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,150 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 660

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • quadrant layout (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • magenta
  • yellow
  • red
  • gray
  • blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text-centered in each quadrant

Dense Caption

Top-left quadrant: bright magenta background, black outlined white '<3' symbol above 'Friends' text. Top-right quadrant: light yellow star-patterned background, red text reading 'lissy', 'rissy', 'erin'. Bottom-left quadrant: gray background with blue swirls, three lines of white text: 'sarah', 'livi', 'caitlin'. Bottom-right quadrant: solid light gray background.

Description

  • A static image divided into four quadrants with distinct backgrounds and text 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200805211628131049594028

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • magenta star gray swirl
  • lissy rissy erin sarah livi caitlin
  • <3 Friends text
  • four quadrant

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four quadrant grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text
  • quadrant layout

Visible Text

  • <3
  • Friends
  • lissy
  • rissy
  • erin
  • sarah
  • livi
  • caitlin

Wordwall

  • <3 symbol
  • Friends text
  • lissy rissy erin text
  • sarah livi caitlin text
  • magenta background
  • star-patterned background
  • gray swirl background
  • light gray background
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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
200805211628131049594028
Archive entry
200805211628131049594028.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 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#200805211628131049594028.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805211628131049594028.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016