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Four distinct emoticons displayed on a black-and-white striped background with pixelated texture.

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Four distinct emoticons displayed on a black-and-white striped background with pixelated texture.

Four distinct emoticons displayed on a black-and-white striped background with pixelated texture. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Mood

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed between chronological observations; all four emoticon symbols appear static on the striped background.

Composition

  • four distinct symbols
  • centered arrangement

Dense Caption

The image shows four separate emoticon symbols arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left is green '<33' text, top-right is blue ':)' text, bottom-left is orange '=]' text, and bottom-right is purple '<33' text. All symbols are rendered with thick outlines on a black-and-white wavy striped background that has pixelated texture. The emoticons appear static without visible animation changes between observations.

Description

  • Four distinct emoticons displayed on a black-and-white striped background with pixelated texture.

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
  • 200903061219361243274348

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green '<33' blue ':)' orange '=]' purple '<33'
  • emoticons black-and-white stripes
  • <33 : ) = ]
  • pixelated text emoticons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • <33
  • :)
  • =]

Wordwall

  • green '<33'
  • blue ':)'
  • orange '=}'
  • purple '<33'
  • black-and-white striped background
  • pixelated texture
  • thick outlines

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200903061219361243274348
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7e/7e4c70299b9b99b18d62983dc90468e686c991c98789f18692947120ac5fd128.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
7e4c70299b9b99b1
SHA-256
7e4c70299b9b99b18d62983dc90468e686c991c98789f18692947120ac5fd128
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:18 UTC
Run
1085
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.125010

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Four distinct emoticons displayed on a black-and-white striped background with pixelated texture.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 01:49 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,983 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,116, response 658

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based emoticon (style, 0.80)
  • emoticons (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed between chronological observations; all four emoticon symbols appear static on the striped background.

Colors

  • green
  • blue
  • orange
  • purple
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • four distinct symbols
  • centered arrangement

Dense Caption

The image shows four separate emoticon symbols arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left is green '<33' text, top-right is blue ':)' text, bottom-left is orange '=]' text, and bottom-right is purple '<33' text. All symbols are rendered with thick outlines on a black-and-white wavy striped background that has pixelated texture. The emoticons appear static without visible animation changes between observations.

Description

  • Four distinct emoticons displayed on a black-and-white striped background with pixelated texture.

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
  • 200903061219361243274348

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green '<33' blue ':)' orange '=]' purple '<33'
  • emoticons black-and-white stripes
  • <33 : ) = ]
  • pixelated text emoticons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based emoticon

Subjects

  • emoticons

Visible Text

  • <33
  • :)
  • =]

Wordwall

  • green '<33'
  • blue ':)'
  • orange '=}'
  • purple '<33'
  • black-and-white striped background
  • pixelated texture
  • thick outlines
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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
200903061219361243274348
Archive entry
200903061219361243274348.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#200903061219361243274348.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200903061219361243274348.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016