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Pixelated icon with diagonal pink, blue, and green stripes; white-outlined letters 'i', 'l', 'y' in pink, blue, green; white spiral on left; animated change in background brightness.

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Pixelated icon with diagonal pink, blue, and green stripes; white-outlined letters 'i', 'l', 'y' in pink, blue, green; white spiral on left; animated change in background brightness.

Pixelated icon with diagonal pink, blue, and green stripes; white-outlined letters 'i', 'l', 'y' in pink, blue, green; white spiral on left; animated change in background brightne…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • brightness shift

Animation Summary

  • Brightness shift in background stripes between frames.

Composition

  • diagonal stripes
  • centered letters
  • left spiral

Dense Caption

Pixelated icon with diagonal stripes in pink, blue, and green. White-outlined letters 'i' (pink), 'l' (blue), 'y' (green) occupy center. White spiral on left side. Background stripes shift brightness between frames: top frame shows brighter pink and blue stripes, bottom frame shows darker pink and blue stripes. No other visible motion or text.

Description

Pixelated icon with diagonal pink, blue, and green stripes; white-outlined letters 'i', 'l', 'y' in pink, blue, green; white spiral on left; animated change in background brightness.

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

  • pixelated i l y icon
  • diagonal pink blue green stripes
  • white spiral icon
  • brightness shift animation

Style

  • cartoon

Visible Text

  • i
  • l
  • y

Wordwall

  • diagonal stripes
  • pink blue green
  • white outline
  • i l y
  • spiral
  • brightness shift
  • pixelated
  • centered letters
  • striped background
  • no other motion

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901041309151662454488
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/77/77fbcd749655335d891b6807212ff39363dbb5d6370cc4f5ae5157e97ba39f1a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
Archive ID
77fbcd749655335d
SHA-256
77fbcd749655335d891b6807212ff39363dbb5d6370cc4f5ae5157e97ba39f1a
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 16:52 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000859

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:04 UTC
Run
1053
Input
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated icon with diagonal pink, blue, and green stripes; white-outlined letters 'i', 'l', 'y' in pink, blue, green; white spiral on left; animated change in background brightness.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 16:44 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,371 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 592

Review tags

  • brightness shift (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • spiral (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • brightness shift

Animation

  • brightness shift

Animation Summary

  • Brightness shift in background stripes between frames.

Colors

  • pink
  • blue
  • green
  • white

Composition

  • diagonal stripes
  • centered letters
  • left spiral

Dense Caption

Pixelated icon with diagonal stripes in pink, blue, and green. White-outlined letters 'i' (pink), 'l' (blue), 'y' (green) occupy center. White spiral on left side. Background stripes shift brightness between frames: top frame shows brighter pink and blue stripes, bottom frame shows darker pink and blue stripes. No other visible motion or text.

Description

Pixelated icon with diagonal pink, blue, and green stripes; white-outlined letters 'i', 'l', 'y' in pink, blue, green; white spiral on left; animated change in background brightness.

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

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated i l y icon
  • diagonal pink blue green stripes
  • white spiral icon
  • brightness shift animation

Objects

  • spiral

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoon

Visible Text

  • i
  • l
  • y

Wordwall

  • diagonal stripes
  • pink blue green
  • white outline
  • i l y
  • spiral
  • brightness shift
  • pixelated
  • centered letters
  • striped background
  • no other motion
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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
200901041309151662454488
Archive entry
200901041309151662454488.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 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#200901041309151662454488.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901041309151662454488.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016