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Black background with blue dotted border and star accents, displaying repeated text elements in white and gray pixelated fonts.

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Black background with blue dotted border and star accents, displaying repeated text elements in white and gray pixelated fonts.

Black background with blue dotted border and star accents, displaying repeated text elements in white and gray pixelated fonts. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • quadrant layout
  • centered text
  • bordered

Dense Caption

Black background with blue dotted border and star accents. Four identical quadrants separated by blue dotted lines. Each quadrant contains: top white 'I', middle gray 'LOVE', middle-left white 'Cal', middle-bottom white 'I', bottom gray 'LOVE', bottom-left white 'Cal'. Blue star symbols at border corners and center intersections. Text elements are pixelated with slight blurring. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Black background with blue dotted border and star accents, displaying repeated text elements in white and gray pixelated fonts.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black blue white gray text
  • dotted border star accents
  • repeated I LOVE Cal
  • pixelated text
  • symmetrical text layout
  • text-based icon
  • blue border black background
  • I LOVE Cal repeated

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined style: grid-like
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid

Visible Text

  • I
  • LOVE
  • Cal

Wordwall

  • black background
  • blue dotted border
  • blue star accents
  • white text
  • gray text
  • pixelated font
  • repeated quadrants
  • text 'I'
  • text 'LOVE'
  • text 'Cal'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070814125610870310550
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
989 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8a/8abe56c2986b782da0defce5a0b5314d7cad0eb5f8dedc5411ef353ae7732f43.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
8abe56c2986b782d
SHA-256
8abe56c2986b782da0defce5a0b5314d7cad0eb5f8dedc5411ef353ae7732f43
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:40 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085960

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black background with blue dotted border and star accents, displaying repeated text elements in white and gray pixelated fonts.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 23:31 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,023 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,104, response 707

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • like (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • black
  • blue
  • white
  • gray

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  • symmetrical
  • quadrant layout
  • centered text
  • bordered

Dense Caption

Black background with blue dotted border and star accents. Four identical quadrants separated by blue dotted lines. Each quadrant contains: top white 'I', middle gray 'LOVE', middle-left white 'Cal', middle-bottom white 'I', bottom gray 'LOVE', bottom-left white 'Cal'. Blue star symbols at border corners and center intersections. Text elements are pixelated with slight blurring. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Black background with blue dotted border and star accents, displaying repeated text elements in white and gray pixelated fonts.

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

Mood

  • neutral
  • repetitive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black blue white gray text
  • dotted border star accents
  • repeated I LOVE Cal
  • pixelated text
  • symmetrical text layout
  • text-based icon
  • blue border black background
  • I LOVE Cal repeated

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined style: grid-like
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • repetitive
  • like

Visible Text

  • I
  • LOVE
  • Cal

Wordwall

  • black background
  • blue dotted border
  • blue star accents
  • white text
  • gray text
  • pixelated font
  • repeated quadrants
  • text 'I'
  • text 'LOVE'
  • text 'Cal'
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:36 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20070814125610870310550
Archive entry
20070814125610870310550.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#20070814125610870310550.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070814125610870310550.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016