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A static digital image with four quadrants displaying text on solid color backgrounds.

A static digital image with four quadrants displaying text on solid color backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Lat…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • quadrant
  • symmetrical text placement

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four equal quadrants. Top-left quadrant: blue background with black pixelated text 'nick gresser<3' at top and 'ily<3' below it. Top-right quadrant: purple background with identical black pixelated text 'nick gresser<3' at top and 'ily<3' below it. Bottom-left quadrant: pink background with black pixelated text 'nick gresser<3' at top and 'ily<3' below it. Bottom-right quadrant: purple background with identical black pixelated text 'nick gresser<3' at top and 'ily<3' below it. All text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A static digital image with four quadrants displaying text on solid color 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090501162836591284525

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • nick gresser<3
  • ily<3
  • blue purple pink quadrants
  • pixelated text buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: quadrant grid

Visible Text

  • nick gresser<3
  • ily<3

Wordwall

  • four quadrants
  • blue background
  • purple background
  • pink background
  • black pixelated text
  • nick gresser<3
  • ily<3
  • blocky font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090501162836591284525
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/90/9076f2470d1cddd00cfeae1176ef96a75ee503e916ac0abf5c9568b67ed85167.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
9076f2470d1cddd0
SHA-256
9076f2470d1cddd00cfeae1176ef96a75ee503e916ac0abf5c9568b67ed85167
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.116165

OpenAI category scores

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A static digital image with four quadrants displaying text on solid color backgrounds.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 08:28 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,929 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 654

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • purple
  • pink

Composition

  • quadrant
  • symmetrical text placement

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four equal quadrants. Top-left quadrant: blue background with black pixelated text 'nick gresser<3' at top and 'ily<3' below it. Top-right quadrant: purple background with identical black pixelated text 'nick gresser<3' at top and 'ily<3' below it. Bottom-left quadrant: pink background with black pixelated text 'nick gresser<3' at top and 'ily<3' below it. Bottom-right quadrant: purple background with identical black pixelated text 'nick gresser<3' at top and 'ily<3' below it. All text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A static digital image with four quadrants displaying text on solid color 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090501162836591284525

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • nick gresser<3
  • ily<3
  • blue purple pink quadrants
  • pixelated text buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: quadrant grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • nick gresser<3
  • ily<3

Wordwall

  • four quadrants
  • blue background
  • purple background
  • pink background
  • black pixelated text
  • nick gresser<3
  • ily<3
  • blocky font
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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
20090501162836591284525
Archive entry
20090501162836591284525.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#20090501162836591284525.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090501162836591284525.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016