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Pixelated icon with colorful circles and text variations of 'Carl' on a white background.

Pixelated icon with colorful circles and text variations of 'Carl' on a white background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • overlapping circles
  • text overlays

Dense Caption

The image shows a static pixel art composition featuring overlapping circular shapes in yellow, green, orange, pink, blue, and gray against a white background. Text elements display multiple spelling variants: 'C' (blue), 'Ca' (green), 'Car' (red), 'Carl' (purple), 'Carly' (pink), and 'Carly<3' (orange). Each text variant appears in distinct colored backgrounds with pixelated edges, surrounded by the same circular pattern. The circles vary in size from small dots to large overlapping shapes.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with colorful circles and text variations of 'Carl' on a white background.

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

  • carl carly text circles
  • pixel art colorful circles
  • text variations carl carly
  • blue c green ca red car

Visible Text

  • C
  • Ca
  • Car
  • Carl
  • Carly
  • Carly<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Carl
  • Carly

Wordwall

  • colorful circles
  • text variations
  • pixel art style
  • white background
  • overlapping shapes
  • multiple spellings
  • blue 'C'
  • green 'Ca'
  • red 'Car'
  • purple 'Carl'
  • pink 'Carly'
  • orange 'Carly<3'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811181738062048024922
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.5 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/95/957a01fa7a6424d8e812698d206f766d01d9162c055b07c7d33504128394ea09.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
957a01fa7a6424d8
SHA-256
957a01fa7a6424d8e812698d206f766d01d9162c055b07c7d33504128394ea09
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:11 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074416

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon with colorful circles and text variations of 'Carl' on a white background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 09:32 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,867 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,173, response 639

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • circles (subject, 0.80)
  • text variants (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • green
  • orange
  • pink
  • blue
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • overlapping circles
  • text overlays

Dense Caption

The image shows a static pixel art composition featuring overlapping circular shapes in yellow, green, orange, pink, blue, and gray against a white background. Text elements display multiple spelling variants: 'C' (blue), 'Ca' (green), 'Car' (red), 'Carl' (purple), 'Carly' (pink), and 'Carly<3' (orange). Each text variant appears in distinct colored backgrounds with pixelated edges, surrounded by the same circular pattern. The circles vary in size from small dots to large overlapping shapes.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with colorful circles and text variations of 'Carl' on a white background.

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

  • carl carly text circles
  • pixel art colorful circles
  • text variations carl carly
  • blue c green ca red car

Objects

  • circles

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text variants
  • circles

Visible Text

  • C
  • Ca
  • Car
  • Carl
  • Carly
  • Carly<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Carl
  • Carly

Wordwall

  • colorful circles
  • text variations
  • pixel art style
  • white background
  • overlapping shapes
  • multiple spellings
  • blue 'C'
  • green 'Ca'
  • red 'Car'
  • purple 'Carl'
  • pink 'Carly'
  • orange 'Carly<3'
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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
200811181738062048024922
Archive entry
200811181738062048024922.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#200811181738062048024922.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811181738062048024922.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016