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Four identical pixelated frames display a green and cyan layered square design with purple text reading 'colin bickers' and 'i g' at the top.

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Four identical pixelated frames display a green and cyan layered square design with purple text reading 'colin bickers' and 'i g' at the top.

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across frames; all are identical

Composition

  • centered text
  • nested squares
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated frames show a layered square design with alternating green and cyan borders. The top-left corner of each frame contains purple pixelated text 'i g'. The central area displays purple pixelated text 'colin' above 'bickers'. The design consists of nested squares with green outer borders and cyan inner borders. All four frames are visually identical with no discernible differences in content or layout.

Description

Four identical pixelated frames display a green and cyan layered square design with purple text reading 'colin bickers' and 'i g' at the top.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green cyan layered squares colin bickers
  • purple text i g colin bickers
  • pixelated green cyan squares
  • colin bickers i g

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation changes across frames; all four frames are identical.
  • quarantined wordwall: four frame set

Visible Text

  • i g
  • colin
  • bickers

Wordwall

  • green cyan layered squares
  • purple text 'i g'
  • purple text 'colin'
  • purple text 'bickers'
  • nested square design
  • pixelated text
  • identical frames
  • set
  • cyan background
  • green borders

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809161352161648229915
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
798 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
8885b9962f7d16f6
SHA-256
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Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 01:41 UTC
Run
1269
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Overall score
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July 23, 2026 at 17:38 UTC
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Four identical pixelated frames display a green and cyan layered square design with purple text reading 'colin bickers' and 'i g' at the top.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 00:31 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,503 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,117, response 678

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across frames; all are identical

Colors

  • green
  • cyan
  • purple

Composition

  • centered text
  • nested squares
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated frames show a layered square design with alternating green and cyan borders. The top-left corner of each frame contains purple pixelated text 'i g'. The central area displays purple pixelated text 'colin' above 'bickers'. The design consists of nested squares with green outer borders and cyan inner borders. All four frames are visually identical with no discernible differences in content or layout.

Description

Four identical pixelated frames display a green and cyan layered square design with purple text reading 'colin bickers' and 'i g' at the top.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green cyan layered squares colin bickers
  • purple text i g colin bickers
  • pixelated green cyan squares
  • colin bickers i g

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation changes across frames; all four frames are identical.
  • quarantined wordwall: four frame set

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • blocky

Visible Text

  • i g
  • colin
  • bickers

Wordwall

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  • purple text 'i g'
  • purple text 'colin'
  • purple text 'bickers'
  • nested square design
  • pixelated text
  • identical frames
  • set
  • cyan background
  • green borders
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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
200809161352161648229915
Archive entry
200809161352161648229915.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#200809161352161648229915.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809161352161648229915.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016