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A static image with a blue background displaying four text elements and a logo, featuring pixelated text and a glowing oval logo.

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A static image with a blue background displaying four text elements and a logo, featuring pixelated text and a glowing oval logo.

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Source terms

Composition

  • top-left logo
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left text
  • bottom-right text

Dense Caption

The image has a solid blue background. In the top-left corner, there is a glowing oval logo with the text "American Idol" in white script on a dark blue background, surrounded by a light blue outline and a faint blue glow. To the right of the logo, the text "simon<3" appears in white pixelated font. Below the logo, the text "Kara<3" is displayed in white pixelated font. To the right of "Kara<3", the text "Randy<3" is shown in white pixelated font. All text elements are in a pixelated style, consistent with early digital graphics.

Description

  • A static image with a blue background displaying four text elements and a logo, featuring pixelated text and a glowing oval logo.

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

  • American Idol simon Kara Randy
  • simon<3 Kara<3 Randy<3
  • American Idol logo blue background
  • pixelated text American Idol

Objects

  • logo

Visible Text

  • American Idol
  • simon<3
  • Kara<3
  • Randy<3

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • glowing oval logo
  • American Idol text
  • simon<3 text
  • Kara<3 text
  • Randy<3 text
  • pixelated font
  • white text
  • light blue outline
  • faint blue glow

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201001171606591157013059
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8d/8d258febccdb20ee14370ca338e1a5dc788b0eecf580a0960102117d7ddf653e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
8d258febccdb20ee
SHA-256
8d258febccdb20ee14370ca338e1a5dc788b0eecf580a0960102117d7ddf653e
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010123

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:43 UTC
Run
1127
Input
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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A static image with a blue background displaying four text elements and a logo, featuring pixelated text and a glowing oval logo.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 16:24 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,467 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 747

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • logo (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • glowing (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • american idol logo (subject, 0.80)
  • kara 3 (subject, 0.80)
  • randy 3 (subject, 0.80)
  • simon 3 (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • light blue
  • dark blue

Composition

  • top-left logo
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left text
  • bottom-right text

Dense Caption

The image has a solid blue background. In the top-left corner, there is a glowing oval logo with the text "American Idol" in white script on a dark blue background, surrounded by a light blue outline and a faint blue glow. To the right of the logo, the text "simon<3" appears in white pixelated font. Below the logo, the text "Kara<3" is displayed in white pixelated font. To the right of "Kara<3", the text "Randy<3" is shown in white pixelated font. All text elements are in a pixelated style, consistent with early digital graphics.

Description

  • A static image with a blue background displaying four text elements and a logo, featuring pixelated text and a glowing oval logo.

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

  • American Idol simon Kara Randy
  • simon<3 Kara<3 Randy<3
  • American Idol logo blue background
  • pixelated text American Idol

Objects

  • logo
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • glowing
  • text-based

Subjects

  • American Idol logo
  • simon<3
  • Kara<3
  • Randy<3

Visible Text

  • American Idol
  • simon<3
  • Kara<3
  • Randy<3

Wordwall

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  • glowing oval logo
  • American Idol text
  • simon<3 text
  • Kara<3 text
  • Randy<3 text
  • pixelated font
  • white text
  • light blue outline
  • faint blue glow
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August 19, 2026 at 21:59 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
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Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
201001171606591157013059
Archive entry
201001171606591157013059.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#201001171606591157013059.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201001171606591157013059.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016