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Six distinct letter icons arranged in a , each with unique styling and background colors

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Six distinct letter icons arranged in a , each with unique styling and background colors

Six distinct letter icons arranged in a , each with unique styling and background colors. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • six distinct icons

Dense Caption

Top-left: large white 'S' with yellow outline on purple background. Top-middle: pink gradient 'A' with white inner details on white background. Top-right: dark blue 'V' on light blue checkered background. Bottom-left: black fragmented 'E' on white background. Bottom-middle: white cursive 'm' on solid blue background. Bottom-right: pink polka-dot 'E' on white background. All icons are static, no animation observed.

Description

  • Six distinct letter icons arranged in a , each with unique styling and background colors

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

  • S A V E m E
  • purple yellow S
  • pink gradient A
  • checkered blue V
  • fragmented black E
  • cursive white m
  • polka-dot pink E

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Six distinct letter icons arranged in a 2x3 grid, each with unique styling and background colors.
  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: S A V E m E grid

Style

  • gradient

Visible Text

  • S
  • A
  • V
  • E
  • m

Visually Supported Entities

  • S
  • A
  • V
  • E
  • m

Wordwall

  • S
  • A
  • V
  • E
  • m
  • purple background
  • yellow outline
  • pink gradient
  • white inner details
  • checkered background
  • fragmented E
  • cursive m
  • polka-dot E

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080816145043844088564
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
7.2 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7c/7c6a2ece71e5d6cbe864367d7b0c9a9698cd537a8aa6d3e754c68df0ddccea91.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 UTC
Archive ID
7c6a2ece71e5d6cb
SHA-256
7c6a2ece71e5d6cbe864367d7b0c9a9698cd537a8aa6d3e754c68df0ddccea91
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 4, 2026 at 03:33 UTC
Run
1262
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000591

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:13 UTC
Run
1075
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Enrichment records (1)
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Six distinct letter icons arranged in a , each with unique styling and background colors

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 19:24 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,177 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,164, response 644

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
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  • checkered (style, 0.80)
  • cursive (style, 0.80)
  • fragmented (style, 0.80)
  • gradient (style, 0.80)
  • polka dot (style, 0.80)
  • letters (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • yellow
  • white
  • pink
  • blue
  • dark blue
  • black

Composition

  • six distinct icons

Dense Caption

Top-left: large white 'S' with yellow outline on purple background. Top-middle: pink gradient 'A' with white inner details on white background. Top-right: dark blue 'V' on light blue checkered background. Bottom-left: black fragmented 'E' on white background. Bottom-middle: white cursive 'm' on solid blue background. Bottom-right: pink polka-dot 'E' on white background. All icons are static, no animation observed.

Description

  • Six distinct letter icons arranged in a , each with unique styling and background colors

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

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  • pink gradient A
  • checkered blue V
  • fragmented black E
  • cursive white m
  • polka-dot pink E

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Six distinct letter icons arranged in a 2x3 grid, each with unique styling and background colors.
  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: S A V E m E grid

Style

  • blocky
  • gradient
  • checkered
  • fragmented
  • cursive
  • polka-dot

Subjects

  • letters

Visible Text

  • S
  • A
  • V
  • E
  • m

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  • S
  • A
  • V
  • E
  • m

Wordwall

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  • A
  • V
  • E
  • m
  • purple background
  • yellow outline
  • pink gradient
  • white inner details
  • checkered background
  • fragmented E
  • cursive m
  • polka-dot E
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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
20080816145043844088564
Archive entry
20080816145043844088564.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 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#20080816145043844088564.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080816145043844088564.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016