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Four identical pixelated icons display text on a gradient purple background with central brightness variation.

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Four identical pixelated icons display text on a gradient purple background with central brightness variation.

Four identical pixelated icons display text on a gradient purple background with central brightness variation. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; all four views show identical static content.

Composition

  • four identical squares

Dense Caption

The image shows four square-shaped, static digital graphics arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each graphic features the text 'Brendan' at the top, followed by '<3's', then 'Coury'. The text is rendered in black pixelated font on a purple-to-white radial gradient background with central brightness variation. All four icons are visually identical; no animation or content changes occur between them.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated icons display text on a gradient purple background with central brightness variation.

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
  • 20071010165323873883709

Named Entities

  • Brendan
  • Coury

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Brendan <3's Coury pixel art icon
  • purple gradient text icon Brendan Coury
  • pixelated text icon purple background
  • <3's Brendan Coury icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: composition: 2x2 grid of identical squares
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • text-based icon

Visible Text

  • Brendan
  • <3's
  • Coury

Wordwall

  • text: Brendan
  • text: <3's
  • text: Coury
  • font: pixelated
  • background: purple-to-white radial gradient
  • composition: of identical squares

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071010165323873883709
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/81/816c759f5fdc9e0e8fb847a8a6cf8fdcec2615c09c8f0e8c7a5ee8480732b438.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC
Archive ID
816c759f5fdc9e0e
SHA-256
816c759f5fdc9e0e8fb847a8a6cf8fdcec2615c09c8f0e8c7a5ee8480732b438
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 09:07 UTC
Run
1201
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000828

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:25 UTC
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1101
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Four identical pixelated icons display text on a gradient purple background with central brightness variation.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 09:01 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,607 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 576

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based icon (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; all four views show identical static content.

Colors

  • purple
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • four identical squares

Dense Caption

The image shows four square-shaped, static digital graphics arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each graphic features the text 'Brendan' at the top, followed by '<3's', then 'Coury'. The text is rendered in black pixelated font on a purple-to-white radial gradient background with central brightness variation. All four icons are visually identical; no animation or content changes occur between them.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated icons display text on a gradient purple background with central brightness variation.

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
  • 20071010165323873883709

Named Entities

  • Brendan
  • Coury

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Brendan <3's Coury pixel art icon
  • purple gradient text icon Brendan Coury
  • pixelated text icon purple background
  • <3's Brendan Coury icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: composition: 2x2 grid of identical squares
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based icon

Visible Text

  • Brendan
  • <3's
  • Coury

Wordwall

  • text: Brendan
  • text: <3's
  • text: Coury
  • font: pixelated
  • background: purple-to-white radial gradient
  • composition: of identical squares
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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
20071010165323873883709
Archive entry
20071010165323873883709.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 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#20071010165323873883709.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071010165323873883709.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016