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identical pixelated icons on a bright pink background, each displaying text and star symbols

identical pixelated icons on a bright pink background, each displaying text and star symbols. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

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Source terms

Composition

  • 9 icons
  • rightmost bottom icon partially cropped on right edge

Dense Caption

Bright magenta background with nine repeated 4x4 grids of blue pixelated text reading "softball" above "4lyfe" above "<3333", surrounded by small light purple stars. The rightmost bottom grid is partially cropped on the right edge, showing a gray rectangle where content is cut off. All icons share identical layout and color scheme with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • identical pixelated icons on a bright pink background, each displaying text and star symbols

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803201534291695364733

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball 4lyfe <3333
  • magenta background blue text stars
  • repeated cutoff right edge
  • <3333 softball 4lyfe

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of identical pixelated icons on a bright pink background, each displaying text and star symbols.
  • quarantined wordwall: repeated grid
  • quarantined style: repetitive grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 9 icons arranged in 3x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated grid cutoff right edge

Visible Text

  • softball
  • 4lyfe
  • <3333

Wordwall

  • magenta background
  • blue text
  • <3333
  • 4lyfe
  • softball
  • light purple stars
  • repeated
  • cutoff right edge

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803201534291695364733
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
888 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/82/8243684eed56de1cebe961ae43a25c732955d3120ed08f553f410514bb1f2f48.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 UTC
Archive ID
8243684eed56de1c
SHA-256
8243684eed56de1cebe961ae43a25c732955d3120ed08f553f410514bb1f2f48
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 10:19 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000119

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:27 UTC
Run
1105
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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identical pixelated icons on a bright pink background, each displaying text and star symbols

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 08:44 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,496 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,123, response 650

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light purple (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • magenta
  • blue
  • light purple
  • gray

Composition

  • 9 icons
  • rightmost bottom icon partially cropped on right edge

Dense Caption

Bright magenta background with nine repeated 4x4 grids of blue pixelated text reading "softball" above "4lyfe" above "<3333", surrounded by small light purple stars. The rightmost bottom grid is partially cropped on the right edge, showing a gray rectangle where content is cut off. All icons share identical layout and color scheme with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • identical pixelated icons on a bright pink background, each displaying text and star symbols

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803201534291695364733

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball 4lyfe <3333
  • magenta background blue text stars
  • repeated cutoff right edge
  • <3333 softball 4lyfe

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of identical pixelated icons on a bright pink background, each displaying text and star symbols.
  • quarantined wordwall: repeated grid
  • quarantined style: repetitive grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 9 icons arranged in 3x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated grid cutoff right edge

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • repetitive

Visible Text

  • softball
  • 4lyfe
  • <3333

Wordwall

  • magenta background
  • blue text
  • <3333
  • 4lyfe
  • softball
  • light purple stars
  • repeated
  • cutoff right edge
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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
200803201534291695364733
Archive entry
200803201534291695364733.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 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#200803201534291695364733.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803201534291695364733.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016