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Four pixel-art turtle icons arranged in a , each with distinct shell colors and expressions, some featuring text overlays

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Four pixel-art turtle icons arranged in a , each with distinct shell colors and expressions, some featuring text overlays

Four pixel-art turtle icons arranged in a , each with distinct shell colors and expressions, some featuring text overlays. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four distinct icons

Dense Caption

Top-left: green turtle with brown shell, yellow feet, wide eyes, red tongue visible; black rectangle overlay with white 'I'. Top-right: light green turtle with dark green spotted shell, smiling face, black rectangle overlay with white 'like'. Bottom-left: green turtle with pink shell segments, neutral expression. All icons have solid backgrounds (white or gray), pixelated rendering style.

Description

  • Four pixel-art turtle icons arranged in a , each with distinct shell colors and expressions, some featuring text overlays

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

  • green turtles with brown shells
  • pink shell segment turtles
  • text overlays I like turtles
  • pixel art turtle icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four pixel-art turtle icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with distinct shell colors and expressions, some featuring text overlays.
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout

Visible Text

  • I
  • like
  • turtles

Visually Supported Entities

  • turtles

Wordwall

  • green turtles
  • brown shells
  • pink shell segments
  • yellow feet
  • red tongue
  • smiling faces
  • text overlays
  • 'I'
  • 'like'
  • 'turtles'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200908041517401214363990
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.9 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/92/92d3b2331fa58af4507693bf3d8824f809609a227799e18a2d2c75313dac5a54.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC
Archive ID
92d3b2331fa58af4
SHA-256
92d3b2331fa58af4507693bf3d8824f809609a227799e18a2d2c75313dac5a54
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 23:09 UTC
Run
1290
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.022744

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July 23, 2026 at 19:10 UTC
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Four pixel-art turtle icons arranged in a , each with distinct shell colors and expressions, some featuring text overlays

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,536 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 584

Review tags

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  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
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  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • turtles (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • brown
  • yellow
  • red
  • pink
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • four distinct icons

Dense Caption

Top-left: green turtle with brown shell, yellow feet, wide eyes, red tongue visible; black rectangle overlay with white 'I'. Top-right: light green turtle with dark green spotted shell, smiling face, black rectangle overlay with white 'like'. Bottom-left: green turtle with pink shell segments, neutral expression. All icons have solid backgrounds (white or gray), pixelated rendering style.

Description

  • Four pixel-art turtle icons arranged in a , each with distinct shell colors and expressions, some featuring text overlays

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

  • cheerful
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green turtles with brown shells
  • pink shell segment turtles
  • text overlays I like turtles
  • pixel art turtle icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four pixel-art turtle icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with distinct shell colors and expressions, some featuring text overlays.
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • turtles

Visible Text

  • I
  • like
  • turtles

Visually Supported Entities

  • turtles

Wordwall

  • green turtles
  • brown shells
  • pink shell segments
  • yellow feet
  • red tongue
  • smiling faces
  • text overlays
  • 'I'
  • 'like'
  • 'turtles'
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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
200908041517401214363990
Archive entry
200908041517401214363990.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 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#200908041517401214363990.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200908041517401214363990.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016