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six distinct pixel art icons featuring stylized letters and symbols on varied backgrounds

six distinct pixel art icons featuring stylized letters and symbols on varied backgrounds. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • six distinct sections
  • varied backgrounds

Dense Caption

Top-left: pink floral pattern with blue 'S' in white bubble. Top-middle: nested squares in cyan, purple, green, black, red; central pink 'A'. Top-right: dark background with neon pink swirls forming heart shape around bright green 'M'. Bottom-left: pink spiral with white sparkles and yellow vertical bar. Bottom-middle: rainbow gradient background with partial black text 'SAMI!'. Bottom-right: empty gray square.

Description

  • six distinct pixel art icons featuring stylized letters and symbols on varied backgrounds

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

  • pink floral 'S' icon
  • nested squares 'A' icon
  • neon swirls 'M' icon
  • spiral yellow bar icon
  • rainbow gradient 'SAMI!' icon

Objects

  • heart shape

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of six distinct pixel art icons featuring stylized letters and symbols on varied backgrounds.
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Visible Text

  • S
  • A
  • M
  • SAMI!

Visually Supported Entities

  • S
  • A
  • M
  • SAMI!

Wordwall

  • pink floral pattern
  • blue 'S' in bubble
  • nested squares
  • cyan purple green black red
  • central pink 'A'
  • neon pink swirls
  • heart shape
  • bright green 'M'
  • pink spiral
  • white sparkles
  • yellow vertical bar
  • rainbow gradient
  • partial text 'SAMI!'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090410090159203066949
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.9 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8d/8d4a6bde46844eb35465e7f389568707476e28710320b8ee70ea161e2a8c4e1d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
8d4a6bde46844eb3
SHA-256
8d4a6bde46844eb35465e7f389568707476e28710320b8ee70ea161e2a8c4e1d
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 12, 2026 at 01:53 UTC
Run
1284
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000751

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:43 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.169764

OpenAI category scores

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six distinct pixel art icons featuring stylized letters and symbols on varied backgrounds

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 06:10 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,061 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,169, response 714

Review tags

  • bubble (object, 0.80)
  • heart shape (object, 0.80)
  • nested squares (object, 0.80)
  • vertical bar (object, 0.80)
  • neon glow (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • floral pattern (subject, 0.80)
  • letters (subject, 0.80)
  • neon swirls (subject, 0.80)
  • spiral (subject, 0.80)
  • symbols (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • blue
  • cyan
  • purple
  • green
  • black
  • red
  • yellow
  • white
  • rainbow gradient
  • gray

Composition

  • six distinct sections
  • varied backgrounds

Dense Caption

Top-left: pink floral pattern with blue 'S' in white bubble. Top-middle: nested squares in cyan, purple, green, black, red; central pink 'A'. Top-right: dark background with neon pink swirls forming heart shape around bright green 'M'. Bottom-left: pink spiral with white sparkles and yellow vertical bar. Bottom-middle: rainbow gradient background with partial black text 'SAMI!'. Bottom-right: empty gray square.

Description

  • six distinct pixel art icons featuring stylized letters and symbols on varied backgrounds

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

  • playful
  • vibrant
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink floral 'S' icon
  • nested squares 'A' icon
  • neon swirls 'M' icon
  • spiral yellow bar icon
  • rainbow gradient 'SAMI!' icon

Objects

  • bubble
  • nested squares
  • heart shape
  • vertical bar

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of six distinct pixel art icons featuring stylized letters and symbols on varied backgrounds.
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • neon glow
  • floral pattern
  • spiral background

Subjects

  • letters
  • symbols
  • floral pattern
  • spiral
  • neon swirls

Visible Text

  • S
  • A
  • M
  • SAMI!

Visually Supported Entities

  • S
  • A
  • M
  • SAMI!

Wordwall

  • pink floral pattern
  • blue 'S' in bubble
  • nested squares
  • cyan purple green black red
  • central pink 'A'
  • neon pink swirls
  • heart shape
  • bright green 'M'
  • pink spiral
  • white sparkles
  • yellow vertical bar
  • rainbow gradient
  • partial text 'SAMI!'
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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
20090410090159203066949
Archive entry
20090410090159203066949.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#20090410090159203066949.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090410090159203066949.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016