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Green 'Sherlock' text icon with orange '<3' symbol and two cat images on dark background.

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Green 'Sherlock' text icon with orange '<3' symbol and two cat images on dark background.

Green 'Sherlock' text icon with orange '<3' symbol and two cat images on dark background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left-right split
  • text on left, images on right

Dense Caption

Left side shows green pixelated text: top line reads 'sher', bottom line reads 'lock'. Below these, an orange pixelated '<3' symbol. Right side displays two identical cats in separate panels; each cat has light brown and white fur with upright ears, wide eyes, and a small nose on dark background. The cats appear to be the same animal positioned identically.

Description

  • Green 'Sherlock' text icon with orange '<3' symbol and two cat images on dark background.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080927165604399296518

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sherlock cat icon
  • green sherlock text
  • orange heart symbol
  • two cats dark background
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • franksicons 2008

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • sher
  • lock

Wordwall

  • green text
  • 'sher'
  • 'lock'
  • orange '<3'
  • two cats
  • light brown fur
  • white fur
  • upright ears
  • wide eyes
  • small nose

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080927165604399296518
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8d/8d556b43b10eb41de27c9cf30565ae35d49e9248bc988f883d0c032134ecaed4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
8d556b43b10eb41d
SHA-256
8d556b43b10eb41de27c9cf30565ae35d49e9248bc988f883d0c032134ecaed4
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:43 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085942

OpenAI category scores

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Green 'Sherlock' text icon with orange '<3' symbol and two cat images on dark background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 01:56 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,958 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 648

Review tags

  • dark background (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cats (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • orange
  • light brown
  • white
  • dark background

Composition

  • left-right split
  • text on left, images on right

Dense Caption

Left side shows green pixelated text: top line reads 'sher', bottom line reads 'lock'. Below these, an orange pixelated '<3' symbol. Right side displays two identical cats in separate panels; each cat has light brown and white fur with upright ears, wide eyes, and a small nose on dark background. The cats appear to be the same animal positioned identically.

Description

  • Green 'Sherlock' text icon with orange '<3' symbol and two cat images on dark background.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080927165604399296518

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sherlock cat icon
  • green sherlock text
  • orange heart symbol
  • two cats dark background
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • franksicons 2008

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • cats

Visible Text

  • sher
  • lock

Wordwall

  • green text
  • 'sher'
  • 'lock'
  • orange '<3'
  • two cats
  • light brown fur
  • white fur
  • upright ears
  • wide eyes
  • small nose
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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
20080927165604399296518
Archive entry
20080927165604399296518.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#20080927165604399296518.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080927165604399296518.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016