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Pixelated blue text on black background with cyan lightning-like border, repeating 'Love EMOS' and '-Rainbow' in four quadrants.

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Pixelated blue text on black background with cyan lightning-like border, repeating 'Love EMOS' and '-Rainbow' in four quadrants.

Pixelated blue text on black background with cyan lightning-like border, repeating 'Love EMOS' and '-Rainbow' in four quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant layout
  • centered text
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Black background with cyan pixelated lightning-shaped border. Four identical quadrants each contain blue text: top-center "Love" (lowercase L), below it "EMOS" (uppercase letters), then a horizontal line, followed by ".-Rainbow" (period and hyphen before lowercase rainbow). Text is rendered in blocky 8-bit style with cyan pixelation effects. All four quadrants display identical text layout.

Description

  • Pixelated blue text on black background with cyan lightning-like border, repeating 'Love EMOS' and '-Rainbow' in four quadrants.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200801200708171005393677

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan lightning border black background blue text Love EMOS -Rainbow
  • four quadrant pixel art text layout
  • 8-bit blocky font cyan border
  • Love EMOS -Rainbow repeating pattern

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in provided frames; appears static despite metadata claim of 'animated'

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: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • Love
  • EMOS
  • .-Rainbow

Wordwall

  • cyan lightning border
  • black background
  • blue text
  • Love EMOS
  • -Rainbow
  • four quadrants
  • pixelated
  • blocky font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801200708171005393677
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/82/82d1dd4beb278fbe1685f154dbb23a52e14ff5861608849253973c61f834a4bd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Archive ID
82d1dd4beb278fbe
SHA-256
82d1dd4beb278fbe1685f154dbb23a52e14ff5861608849253973c61f834a4bd
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:28 UTC
Run
1107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.114715

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated blue text on black background with cyan lightning-like border, repeating 'Love EMOS' and '-Rainbow' in four quadrants.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 11:44 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,812 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 740

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • retro (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • blue

Composition

  • four-quadrant layout
  • centered text
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Black background with cyan pixelated lightning-shaped border. Four identical quadrants each contain blue text: top-center "Love" (lowercase L), below it "EMOS" (uppercase letters), then a horizontal line, followed by ".-Rainbow" (period and hyphen before lowercase rainbow). Text is rendered in blocky 8-bit style with cyan pixelation effects. All four quadrants display identical text layout.

Description

  • Pixelated blue text on black background with cyan lightning-like border, repeating 'Love EMOS' and '-Rainbow' in four quadrants.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200801200708171005393677

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • retro

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan lightning border black background blue text Love EMOS -Rainbow
  • four quadrant pixel art text layout
  • 8-bit blocky font cyan border
  • Love EMOS -Rainbow repeating pattern

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in provided frames; appears static despite metadata claim of 'animated'

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: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • text-based
  • repeating pattern

Visible Text

  • Love
  • EMOS
  • .-Rainbow

Wordwall

  • cyan lightning border
  • black background
  • blue text
  • Love EMOS
  • -Rainbow
  • four quadrants
  • pixelated
  • blocky font
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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
200801200708171005393677
Archive entry
200801200708171005393677.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 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#200801200708171005393677.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801200708171005393677.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016