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Green background with yellow concentric circles surrounding vertical text 'I L y :D' in white pixelated font.

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Green background with yellow concentric circles surrounding vertical text 'I L y :D' in white pixelated font.

Green background with yellow concentric circles surrounding vertical text 'I L y :D' in white pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • circular elements
  • vertical text alignment within circles

Dense Caption

The image displays a green background overlaid with four identical circular arrangements of yellow concentric rings. Each ring set contains vertically stacked white pixelated text: the letter 'I', followed by 'L', then lowercase 'y', and finally ':D'. The circles are arranged in a 2x2 grid pattern on the green field, with no visible motion or animation changes across frames.

Description

  • Green background with yellow concentric circles surrounding vertical text 'I L y :D' in white pixelated font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080805184923256573260
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background yellow concentric rings white text
  • vertical I L y :D emoticon circles
  • pixelated green circle
  • circular elements with text

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation observed; all frames show identical static content.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid arrangement
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid of circular elements
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid of circular elements with text
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated green circle grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • I
  • L
  • y
  • :D

Wordwall

  • green background
  • yellow concentric rings
  • white pixelated text
  • vertical text layout
  • :D emoticon
  • arrangement

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080805184923256573260
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/82/827e591b391ade18f676d8c2130452ab6ef2b8556af4b5b04f7bfbeebbc18c4d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC
Archive ID
827e591b391ade18
SHA-256
827e591b391ade18f676d8c2130452ab6ef2b8556af4b5b04f7bfbeebbc18c4d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:27 UTC
Run
1105
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077248

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.930392onnx/unsafe0.077248onnx/nsfw0.039375onnx/nsfl0.037873
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Green background with yellow concentric circles surrounding vertical text 'I L y :D' in white pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 16:27 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,791 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 685

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • yellow
  • white

Composition

  • circular elements
  • vertical text alignment within circles

Dense Caption

The image displays a green background overlaid with four identical circular arrangements of yellow concentric rings. Each ring set contains vertically stacked white pixelated text: the letter 'I', followed by 'L', then lowercase 'y', and finally ':D'. The circles are arranged in a 2x2 grid pattern on the green field, with no visible motion or animation changes across frames.

Description

  • Green background with yellow concentric circles surrounding vertical text 'I L y :D' in white pixelated font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080805184923256573260
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green background yellow concentric rings white text
  • vertical I L y :D emoticon circles
  • pixelated green circle
  • circular elements with text

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation observed; all frames show identical static content.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid arrangement
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid of circular elements
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid of circular elements with text
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated green circle grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • I
  • L
  • y
  • :D

Wordwall

  • green background
  • yellow concentric rings
  • white pixelated text
  • vertical text layout
  • :D emoticon
  • arrangement
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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
20080805184923256573260
Archive entry
20080805184923256573260.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 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#20080805184923256573260.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080805184923256573260.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016