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Four distinct visual states of a single animated icon display different letters and backgrounds: red circular frame with blue center, green L on white cloud-like background, purple T on black-and-white patterned background, pink OLT text on dark foliage.

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Four distinct visual states of a single animated icon display different letters and backgrounds: red circular frame with blue center, green L on white cloud-like background, purple T on black-and-white patterned background, pink OLT text on dark foliage.

Four distinct visual states of a single animated icon display different letters and backgrounds: red circular frame with blue center, green L on white cloud-like background, purpl…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static display of four distinct states

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • identical pixel dimensions per quadrant

Dense Caption

Top-left quadrant shows a red circular border enclosing a blue pixelated starburst; top-right displays a bright green capital 'L' outlined in gray against a white cloud-like texture; bottom-left features a bold purple capital 'T' with gray outline over black-and-white diagonal line pattern; bottom-right presents pink-outlined blue text reading 'OLT' on dark foliage background. All four states share identical pixel dimensions and grid layout.

Description

Four distinct visual states of a single animated icon display different letters and backgrounds: red circular frame with blue center, green L on white cloud-like background, purple T on black-and-white patterned background, pink OLT text on dark foliage.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090719204643839589774
  • franksicons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red circular frame blue starburst
  • green L white cloud texture
  • purple T black-and-white lines
  • pink OLT dark foliage background
  • four-quadrant

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte or cropping visible
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: four-quadrant grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visible Text

  • L
  • T
  • OLT

Visually Supported Entities

  • L
  • T
  • OLT

Wordwall

  • red circular frame
  • blue starburst center
  • green L letter
  • gray outline
  • white cloud texture
  • purple T letter
  • black-and-white lines
  • pink OLT text
  • dark foliage background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090719204643839589774
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9a/9aa3570310f5c448193794b93e75ec64e69719b495b47e143c5d32802f85719c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
9aa3570310f5c448
SHA-256
9aa3570310f5c448193794b93e75ec64e69719b495b47e143c5d32802f85719c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:15 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.127031

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.922318onnx/unsafe0.127031onnx/nsfw0.083701onnx/nsfl0.043330
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Four distinct visual states of a single animated icon display different letters and backgrounds: red circular frame with blue center, green L on white cloud-like background, purple T on black-and-white patterned background, pink OLT text on dark foliage.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 14:54 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,058 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 780

Review tags

  • static display of four distinct states (action, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • circular frame (object, 0.80)
  • cloud texture (object, 0.80)
  • foliage background (object, 0.80)
  • line pattern (object, 0.80)
  • starburst pattern (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • letters (subject, 0.80)
  • text elements (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • static display of four distinct states

Animation

  • static display of four distinct states

Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • green
  • gray
  • purple
  • pink
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • identical pixel dimensions per quadrant

Dense Caption

Top-left quadrant shows a red circular border enclosing a blue pixelated starburst; top-right displays a bright green capital 'L' outlined in gray against a white cloud-like texture; bottom-left features a bold purple capital 'T' with gray outline over black-and-white diagonal line pattern; bottom-right presents pink-outlined blue text reading 'OLT' on dark foliage background. All four states share identical pixel dimensions and grid layout.

Description

Four distinct visual states of a single animated icon display different letters and backgrounds: red circular frame with blue center, green L on white cloud-like background, purple T on black-and-white patterned background, pink OLT text on dark foliage.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090719204643839589774
  • franksicons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red circular frame blue starburst
  • green L white cloud texture
  • purple T black-and-white lines
  • pink OLT dark foliage background
  • four-quadrant

Objects

  • circular frame
  • starburst pattern
  • cloud texture
  • line pattern
  • foliage background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte or cropping visible
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: four-quadrant grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text
  • low-resolution graphics

Subjects

  • letters
  • text elements

Visible Text

  • L
  • T
  • OLT

Visually Supported Entities

  • L
  • T
  • OLT

Wordwall

  • red circular frame
  • blue starburst center
  • green L letter
  • gray outline
  • white cloud texture
  • purple T letter
  • black-and-white lines
  • pink OLT text
  • dark foliage background
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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
20090719204643839589774
Archive entry
20090719204643839589774.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#20090719204643839589774.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090719204643839589774.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016