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Pixelated icon with pink and blue checkered background, four instances of 'KyKy' text in white pixel font, and diamond-shaped pattern overlay.

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Pixelated icon with pink and blue checkered background, four instances of 'KyKy' text in white pixel font, and diamond-shaped pattern overlay.

Pixelated icon with pink and blue checkered background, four instances of 'KyKy' text in white pixel font, and diamond-shaped pattern overlay. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fr…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • checkered background
  • diamond overlay
  • text placement

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated design with alternating pink and blue squares forming a checkered background. Four instances of the text 'KyKy' appear in white pixelated font, positioned at the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right areas. A diamond-shaped pattern overlay consists of pink and blue diamonds arranged in a repeating sequence. The overall style is retro digital with a limited color palette of pink and blue. The image contains no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

Pixelated icon with pink and blue checkered background, four instances of 'KyKy' text in white pixel font, and diamond-shaped pattern overlay.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink blue checkered KyKy
  • pixelated KyKy icon
  • diamond pattern KyKy
  • retro digital KyKy
  • white text pink blue
  • KyKy pixel font
  • checkered diamond KyKy
  • blue pink KyKy icon

Visible Text

  • KyKy

Wordwall

  • pink and blue checkered background
  • four 'KyKy' text instances
  • white pixel font
  • diamond-shaped pattern overlay
  • retro digital style
  • limited color palette
  • pixelated design
  • repeating diamond sequence

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708301559381422036592
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7f/7fb6129cd956714d2d41724b059f0e94d2292838acb242014842e235c6e73279.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
7fb6129cd956714d
SHA-256
7fb6129cd956714d2d41724b059f0e94d2292838acb242014842e235c6e73279
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:21 UTC
Run
1093
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.120315

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated icon with pink and blue checkered background, four instances of 'KyKy' text in white pixel font, and diamond-shaped pattern overlay.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 08:08 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,433 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 687

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • blue

Composition

  • checkered background
  • diamond overlay
  • text placement

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated design with alternating pink and blue squares forming a checkered background. Four instances of the text 'KyKy' appear in white pixelated font, positioned at the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right areas. A diamond-shaped pattern overlay consists of pink and blue diamonds arranged in a repeating sequence. The overall style is retro digital with a limited color palette of pink and blue. The image contains no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

Pixelated icon with pink and blue checkered background, four instances of 'KyKy' text in white pixel font, and diamond-shaped pattern overlay.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink blue checkered KyKy
  • pixelated KyKy icon
  • diamond pattern KyKy
  • retro digital KyKy
  • white text pink blue
  • KyKy pixel font
  • checkered diamond KyKy
  • blue pink KyKy icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • KyKy

Wordwall

  • pink and blue checkered background
  • four 'KyKy' text instances
  • white pixel font
  • diamond-shaped pattern overlay
  • retro digital style
  • limited color palette
  • pixelated design
  • repeating diamond sequence
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:42 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200708301559381422036592
Archive entry
200708301559381422036592.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#200708301559381422036592.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708301559381422036592.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016