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Cyan background with purple pixelated text 'Alex' and scattered plus signs in various sizes.

Cyan background with purple pixelated text 'Alex' and scattered plus signs in various sizes. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four instances of text arranged in corners
  • scattered geometric shapes across background

Dense Caption

The image features a cyan background. Purple pixelated text reading 'Alex' appears four times: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. Scattered across the cyan background are multiple purple plus signs of varying sizes (small dots, medium crosses, large crosses). The plus signs include small single-pixel dots, medium-sized crosses with four arms, and larger crosses with extended arms. All elements maintain a consistent pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Cyan background with purple pixelated text 'Alex' and scattered plus signs in various sizes.

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

  • cyan background purple Alex plus signs
  • pixelated Alex cyan background
  • four Alex text cyan pixel art
  • purple plus signs cyan background

Visible Text

  • Alex

Visually Supported Entities

  • Alex

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • purple text 'Alex'
  • four instances of 'Alex'
  • scattered purple plus signs
  • plus signs vary in size
  • small single-pixel dots
  • medium-sized crosses
  • larger extended-arm crosses
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080102133835551384375
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
541 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/93/93c94f5de488e0f0e1ed0356b4b785ff9479107cd41434be6682b33af8d3fdb6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC
Archive ID
93c94f5de488e0f0
SHA-256
93c94f5de488e0f0e1ed0356b4b785ff9479107cd41434be6682b33af8d3fdb6
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:10 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.148536

OpenAI category scores

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Cyan background with purple pixelated text 'Alex' and scattered plus signs in various sizes.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 07:01 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,135 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 601

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • plus signs (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • purple plus signs (subject, 0.80)
  • text alex (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • purple

Composition

  • four instances of text arranged in corners
  • scattered geometric shapes across background

Dense Caption

The image features a cyan background. Purple pixelated text reading 'Alex' appears four times: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. Scattered across the cyan background are multiple purple plus signs of varying sizes (small dots, medium crosses, large crosses). The plus signs include small single-pixel dots, medium-sized crosses with four arms, and larger crosses with extended arms. All elements maintain a consistent pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Cyan background with purple pixelated text 'Alex' and scattered plus signs in various sizes.

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

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background purple Alex plus signs
  • pixelated Alex cyan background
  • four Alex text cyan pixel art
  • purple plus signs cyan background

Objects

  • plus signs

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution digital graphics

Subjects

  • text 'Alex'
  • purple plus signs

Visible Text

  • Alex

Visually Supported Entities

  • Alex

Wordwall

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  • purple text 'Alex'
  • four instances of 'Alex'
  • scattered purple plus signs
  • plus signs vary in size
  • small single-pixel dots
  • medium-sized crosses
  • larger extended-arm crosses
  • pixelated rendering
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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
20080102133835551384375
Archive entry
20080102133835551384375.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 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#20080102133835551384375.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080102133835551384375.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016