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Pixelated letters E, G, M, N, I, A in colored squares on black background with no visible motion.

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Pixelated letters E, G, M, N, I, A in colored squares on black background with no visible motion.

Pixelated letters E, G, M, N, I, A in colored squares on black background with no visible motion. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • asymmetrically arranged letters on black background

Dense Caption

Six distinct pixelated letter forms appear: a white 'E' inside a green square at top-left; a purple circular 'G' overlapping an orange square containing a white 'M'; a pink square with white 'N' positioned above a light blue rectangle holding a white 'I'; and a yellow 'A' in the bottom-right. All elements are static on solid black background, rendered in low-resolution pixel art style with no visible animation or motion.

Description

  • Pixelated letters E, G, M, N, I, A in colored squares on black background with no visible motion.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green E purple G orange M pink N light blue I yellow A
  • pixelated letters on black background
  • asymmetric letter arrangement
  • static pixel art

Visible Text

  • E
  • G
  • M
  • N
  • I
  • A

Visually Supported Entities

  • letters

Wordwall

  • green square E
  • purple G
  • orange M
  • pink N
  • light blue I
  • yellow A
  • black background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200906261237561143239835
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/88/88287db36b2317013ead1b0007fdbeb626722c27c0a8de213e2487292b367b8b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
88287db36b231701
SHA-256
88287db36b2317013ead1b0007fdbeb626722c27c0a8de213e2487292b367b8b
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 3, 2026 at 06:47 UTC
Run
1258
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001194

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:38 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.317502

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated letters E, G, M, N, I, A in colored squares on black background with no visible motion.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 13:13 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,436 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,168, response 583

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • static (style, 0.80)
  • letters (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • purple
  • orange
  • pink
  • light blue
  • yellow
  • black

Composition

  • asymmetrically arranged letters on black background

Dense Caption

Six distinct pixelated letter forms appear: a white 'E' inside a green square at top-left; a purple circular 'G' overlapping an orange square containing a white 'M'; a pink square with white 'N' positioned above a light blue rectangle holding a white 'I'; and a yellow 'A' in the bottom-right. All elements are static on solid black background, rendered in low-resolution pixel art style with no visible animation or motion.

Description

  • Pixelated letters E, G, M, N, I, A in colored squares on black background with no visible motion.

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green E purple G orange M pink N light blue I yellow A
  • pixelated letters on black background
  • asymmetric letter arrangement
  • static pixel art

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • letters

Visible Text

  • E
  • G
  • M
  • N
  • I
  • A

Visually Supported Entities

  • letters

Wordwall

  • green square E
  • purple G
  • orange M
  • pink N
  • light blue I
  • yellow A
  • black background
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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
200906261237561143239835
Archive entry
200906261237561143239835.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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#200906261237561143239835.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200906261237561143239835.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016