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Black background with white geometric lines forming a pattern, four instances of purple text 'ALY' positioned at corners

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • four corner placement
  • pattern

Dense Caption

Black background features overlapping white diagonal and square-shaped lines creating a layered grid. Four distinct instances of the word 'ALY' appear in bright purple pixelated font: top-left corner, top-right corner, bottom-left corner, and bottom-right corner. The text is rendered with sharp edges typical of early digital graphics. White lines form interconnected diamond shapes across the entire image area.

Description

  • Black background with white geometric lines forming a pattern, four instances of purple text 'ALY' positioned at corners

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
  • 200801040935011224056542

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple ALY text
  • four corner ALY icons
  • black white purple pixel art
  • geometric diamond

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with white geometric lines forming a grid pattern, four instances of purple text 'ALY' positioned at corners.
  • quarantined wordwall: white geometric grid
  • quarantined composition: grid pattern
  • quarantined retrieval: geometric diamond grid
  • quarantined retrieval: purple ALY text grid

Visible Text

  • ALY

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white geometric
  • purple 'ALY' text
  • four corners
  • pixelated font
  • diamond-shaped lines

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801040935011224056542
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC
Archive ID
7e2a365f69f4ce0b
SHA-256
7e2a365f69f4ce0b734e097441d58d89d6538e2da52fa7615ff562f5a99bb7f4
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:17 UTC
Run
1085
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.116239

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with white geometric lines forming a pattern, four instances of purple text 'ALY' positioned at corners

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 07:29 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,424 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 613

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • abstract (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • geometric (style, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • purple

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • four corner placement
  • pattern

Dense Caption

Black background features overlapping white diagonal and square-shaped lines creating a layered grid. Four distinct instances of the word 'ALY' appear in bright purple pixelated font: top-left corner, top-right corner, bottom-left corner, and bottom-right corner. The text is rendered with sharp edges typical of early digital graphics. White lines form interconnected diamond shapes across the entire image area.

Description

  • Black background with white geometric lines forming a pattern, four instances of purple text 'ALY' positioned at corners

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
  • 200801040935011224056542

Mood

  • neutral
  • abstract

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple ALY text
  • four corner ALY icons
  • black white purple pixel art
  • geometric diamond

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with white geometric lines forming a grid pattern, four instances of purple text 'ALY' positioned at corners.
  • quarantined wordwall: white geometric grid
  • quarantined composition: grid pattern
  • quarantined retrieval: geometric diamond grid
  • quarantined retrieval: purple ALY text grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • geometric
  • minimalist

Visible Text

  • ALY

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white geometric
  • purple 'ALY' text
  • four corners
  • pixelated font
  • diamond-shaped lines
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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
200801040935011224056542
Archive entry
200801040935011224056542.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 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#200801040935011224056542.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801040935011224056542.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016