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Four identical circular icons with blue concentric rings on a bright pink background, each containing white text and symbols.

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Four identical circular icons with blue concentric rings on a bright pink background, each containing white text and symbols.

Four identical circular icons with blue concentric rings on a bright pink background, each containing white text and symbols. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • centered text within circular frame

Dense Caption

Bright pink background. Four circular icons arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each icon has three blue concentric rings forming the border. Centered within each ring is white pixelated text: 'i' at top, 'luy' below it (with 'u' as lowercase), 'derek' below that, and '<333' at bottom. All icons are identical in layout and content; no visible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical circular icons with blue concentric rings on a bright pink background, each containing white text and symbols.

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: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • unconfirmed retrieval not promoted: buddy icons 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i luy derek <333
  • pink blue white icon
  • franksicons.com shared buddy icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • All four icons are visually identical; no animation changes observed.
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

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

  • text-based icon

Visible Text

  • i
  • luy
  • derek
  • <333

Visually Supported Entities

  • derek

Wordwall

  • four circular icons
  • bright pink background
  • blue concentric rings
  • white pixelated text
  • 'i' top text
  • 'luy' middle text
  • 'derek' lower-middle text
  • <333 bottom symbol

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081102183001656633192
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a1/a114d584ed469505575926389f3f3962535aa633db282b395168bd952c59f1a4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
a114d584ed469505
SHA-256
a114d584ed469505575926389f3f3962535aa633db282b395168bd952c59f1a4
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:18 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.071536

OpenAI category scores

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Four identical circular icons with blue concentric rings on a bright pink background, each containing white text and symbols.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 06:44 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,995 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 686

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • text based icon (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • centered text within circular frame

Dense Caption

Bright pink background. Four circular icons arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each icon has three blue concentric rings forming the border. Centered within each ring is white pixelated text: 'i' at top, 'luy' below it (with 'u' as lowercase), 'derek' below that, and '<333' at bottom. All icons are identical in layout and content; no visible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical circular icons with blue concentric rings on a bright pink background, each containing white text and symbols.

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: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • unconfirmed retrieval not promoted: buddy icons 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i luy derek <333
  • pink blue white icon
  • franksicons.com shared buddy icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • All four icons are visually identical; no animation changes observed.
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

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
  • retro digital
  • text-based icon

Visible Text

  • i
  • luy
  • derek
  • <333

Visually Supported Entities

  • derek

Wordwall

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  • bright pink background
  • blue concentric rings
  • white pixelated text
  • 'i' top text
  • 'luy' middle text
  • 'derek' lower-middle text
  • <333 bottom symbol
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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
20081102183001656633192
Archive entry
20081102183001656633192.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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#20081102183001656633192.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081102183001656633192.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016