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Animated icon with four quadrants: top-left shows purple 'Pretty' text over blue stars, top-right shows purple stars on dark background, bottom-left shows three people with 'UGLY!' text, bottom-right is blank.

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Animated icon with four quadrants: top-left shows purple 'Pretty' text over blue stars, top-right shows purple stars on dark background, bottom-left shows three people with 'UGLY!' text, bottom-right is blank.

Animated icon with four quadrants: top-left shows purple 'Pretty' text over blue stars, top-right shows purple stars on dark background, bottom-left shows three people with 'UGLY!…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • top-right stars change from solid to outlined

Animation Summary

  • Top-right quadrant stars change from solid to outlined; other quadrants remain static.

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • top-left
  • top-right
  • bottom-left
  • bottom-right

Dense Caption

The icon is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant contains purple text 'Pretty' with green outline on dark blue background with green stars. Top-right quadrant shows purple stars on dark background. Bottom-left quadrant displays three people (two standing behind one seated) with purple text 'UGLY!' and green outline. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. Text is pixelated. The icon is animated, with the top-right quadrant's stars changing from solid to outlined. The bottom-left quadrant's people and text remain static. The top-left quadrant's text and stars remain static. The bottom-right quadrant remains static.

Description

Animated icon with four quadrants: top-left shows purple 'Pretty' text over blue stars, top-right shows purple stars on dark background, bottom-left shows three people with 'UGLY!' text, bottom-right is blank.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200809071003111215311011

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four quadrants pretty ugly
  • purple text green outline
  • animated stars
  • three people gray background
  • pixelated text
  • humorous icon
  • blue stars purple stars
  • static people text

Visible Text

  • Pretty
  • UGLY!

Wordwall

  • four quadrants
  • purple text
  • green outline
  • blue stars
  • purple stars
  • three people
  • solid gray
  • pixelated text
  • animated stars
  • static people
  • static text
  • dark background
  • green stars
  • UGLY! text
  • Pretty text
  • blue background
  • gray background
  • pixelated people

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809071003111215311011
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/93/9328ac1eb543a8dfff734e150563392c68803cc1e3317e5638a388e8d3238f6c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
9328ac1eb543a8df
SHA-256
9328ac1eb543a8dfff734e150563392c68803cc1e3317e5638a388e8d3238f6c
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 12, 2026 at 02:52 UTC
Run
1284
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010221

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:10 UTC
Run
1133
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Animated icon with four quadrants: top-left shows purple 'Pretty' text over blue stars, top-right shows purple stars on dark background, bottom-left shows three people with 'UGLY!' text, bottom-right is blank.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 23:16 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,805 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 826

Review tags

  • stars change from solid to outlined (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • people (subject, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • stars change from solid to outlined

Animation

  • top-right stars change from solid to outlined

Animation Summary

  • Top-right quadrant stars change from solid to outlined; other quadrants remain static.

Colors

  • purple
  • green
  • blue
  • dark
  • gray

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • top-left
  • top-right
  • bottom-left
  • bottom-right

Dense Caption

The icon is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant contains purple text 'Pretty' with green outline on dark blue background with green stars. Top-right quadrant shows purple stars on dark background. Bottom-left quadrant displays three people (two standing behind one seated) with purple text 'UGLY!' and green outline. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. Text is pixelated. The icon is animated, with the top-right quadrant's stars changing from solid to outlined. The bottom-left quadrant's people and text remain static. The top-left quadrant's text and stars remain static. The bottom-right quadrant remains static.

Description

Animated icon with four quadrants: top-left shows purple 'Pretty' text over blue stars, top-right shows purple stars on dark background, bottom-left shows three people with 'UGLY!' text, bottom-right is blank.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200809071003111215311011

Mood

  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • purple text green outline
  • animated stars
  • three people gray background
  • pixelated text
  • humorous icon
  • blue stars purple stars
  • static people text

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  • stars
  • text
  • people

Style

  • pixelated
  • animated

Subjects

  • people
  • stars

Visible Text

  • Pretty
  • UGLY!

Wordwall

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  • green outline
  • blue stars
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  • three people
  • solid gray
  • pixelated text
  • animated stars
  • static people
  • static text
  • dark background
  • green stars
  • UGLY! text
  • Pretty text
  • blue background
  • gray background
  • pixelated people
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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
200809071003111215311011
Archive entry
200809071003111215311011.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#200809071003111215311011.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809071003111215311011.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016