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Purple background with blue text and red square patterns in four corners.

Purple background with blue text and red square patterns in four corners. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to Mi…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four corner clusters
  • two top text instances
  • two bottom text instances

Dense Caption

Solid purple background. Four identical clusters of red squares: each cluster contains three overlapping squares (one large, one medium, one small) arranged diagonally with a single dot above the topmost square and a single dot below the bottommost square; these clusters are positioned at the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners. Four identical blue text instances reading 'maci' in lowercase sans-serif font: two centered horizontally near the top edge, two centered horizontally near the bottom edge.

Description

  • Purple background with blue text and red square patterns in four corners.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801161827017437818

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background blue text maci red squares
  • four corner square clusters purple
  • maci text four instances
  • red squares dots purple background

Visible Text

  • maci

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • blue text
  • 'maci'
  • red square clusters
  • four corner positions
  • three squares per cluster
  • single dots above/below clusters

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801161827017437818
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/90/90583c9b6c84f8db1f30c239bad312b11d6651fbc93a57451db94c9ae65e7f80.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC
Archive ID
90583c9b6c84f8db
SHA-256
90583c9b6c84f8db1f30c239bad312b11d6651fbc93a57451db94c9ae65e7f80
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:08 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.110872

OpenAI category scores

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Purple background with blue text and red square patterns in four corners.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 10:56 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,579 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 625

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • squares (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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  • symmetrical (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • blue
  • red

Composition

  • four corner clusters
  • two top text instances
  • two bottom text instances

Dense Caption

Solid purple background. Four identical clusters of red squares: each cluster contains three overlapping squares (one large, one medium, one small) arranged diagonally with a single dot above the topmost square and a single dot below the bottommost square; these clusters are positioned at the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners. Four identical blue text instances reading 'maci' in lowercase sans-serif font: two centered horizontally near the top edge, two centered horizontally near the bottom edge.

Description

  • Purple background with blue text and red square patterns in four corners.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801161827017437818

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background blue text maci red squares
  • four corner square clusters purple
  • maci text four instances
  • red squares dots purple background

Objects

  • squares
  • dots

Style

  • pixelated
  • repetitive
  • symmetrical

Visible Text

  • maci

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • blue text
  • 'maci'
  • red square clusters
  • four corner positions
  • three squares per cluster
  • single dots above/below clusters
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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
200801161827017437818
Archive entry
200801161827017437818.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 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#200801161827017437818.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801161827017437818.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016