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Pixelated icon with repeating text elements over a of blue, yellow, and gray squares

Pixelated icon with repeating text elements over a of blue, yellow, and gray squares. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text blocks centered in each quadrant
  • uniform square pixels

Dense Caption

The icon consists of a grid of square pixels in blue, yellow, and gray. Four identical text blocks are arranged in a 2x2 layout. Each block contains the text "Love" in white, followed by "2" in white, "Twril" in white, and "<3" in white. The background grid alternates between blue, yellow, and gray squares. The text is rendered in a pixelated font. The icon has no visible motion or animation.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with repeating text elements over a of blue, yellow, and gray squares

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

  • Love 2 Twril <3
  • pixelated text icon
  • blue yellow gray
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated icon with repeating text elements over a grid of blue, yellow, and gray squares.
  • quarantined wordwall: layout: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid-based
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid text
  • quarantined retrieval: blue yellow gray grid

Visible Text

  • Love
  • 2
  • Twril
  • <3

Wordwall

  • text: Love
  • text: 2
  • text: Twril
  • text: <3
  • background: blue squares
  • background: yellow squares
  • background: gray squares
  • layout
  • font: pixelated
  • color: blue
  • color: yellow
  • color: gray

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090405193757144510494
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
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8e/8ebbb96726b8c652ed79c03247f21ae3b39f655caec61084fba65ce2cb4c1678.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
8ebbb96726b8c652
SHA-256
8ebbb96726b8c652ed79c03247f21ae3b39f655caec61084fba65ce2cb4c1678
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:44 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090139

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.915528onnx/unsafe0.090139onnx/nsfw0.049612onnx/nsfl0.040526
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated icon with repeating text elements over a of blue, yellow, and gray squares

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 05:37 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,130 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 685

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • based (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text heavy (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • text blocks centered in each quadrant
  • uniform square pixels

Dense Caption

The icon consists of a grid of square pixels in blue, yellow, and gray. Four identical text blocks are arranged in a 2x2 layout. Each block contains the text "Love" in white, followed by "2" in white, "Twril" in white, and "<3" in white. The background grid alternates between blue, yellow, and gray squares. The text is rendered in a pixelated font. The icon has no visible motion or animation.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with repeating text elements over a of blue, yellow, and gray squares

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

  • Love 2 Twril <3
  • pixelated text icon
  • blue yellow gray
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated icon with repeating text elements over a grid of blue, yellow, and gray squares.
  • quarantined wordwall: layout: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid-based
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid text
  • quarantined retrieval: blue yellow gray grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • based
  • text-heavy

Visible Text

  • Love
  • 2
  • Twril
  • <3

Wordwall

  • text: Love
  • text: 2
  • text: Twril
  • text: <3
  • background: blue squares
  • background: yellow squares
  • background: gray squares
  • layout
  • font: pixelated
  • color: blue
  • color: yellow
  • color: gray
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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
20090405193757144510494
Archive entry
20090405193757144510494.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#20090405193757144510494.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090405193757144510494.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016