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Pixelated static image of a grid containing multiple distinct icons with varied backgrounds and symbols including letters, hearts, peace signs, and question marks.

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Pixelated static image of a grid containing multiple distinct icons with varied backgrounds and symbols including letters, hearts, peace signs, and question marks.

Pixelated static image of a grid containing multiple distinct icons with varied backgrounds and symbols including letters, hearts, peace signs, and question marks. 48×48 GIF AIM b…

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Composition

  • 2x3 layout
  • centered icons
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated static composition featuring a 2x3 grid of small square icons on an orange-brown background. Top-left icon: light green 'L' on beige background. Top-middle icon: pink heart with white outline on gray background. Top-right icon: black stylized 'U' on yellow background. Bottom-left icon: dark gray question mark on white background. Bottom-middle icon: green 'E' on dark green background. Bottom-right icon: pink peace sign on pink background. All icons have distinct color schemes and symbols with no visible text or animation.

Description

Pixelated static image of a grid containing multiple distinct icons with varied backgrounds and symbols including letters, hearts, peace signs, and question marks.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • unconfirmed visuallySupportedEntities not promoted: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • heart peace sign question mark
  • L U E icons grid
  • pink heart black U green E
  • pixelated icon set

Objects

  • background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016 collection
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • question mark

Visible Text

  • L
  • U
  • E
  • ?

Visually Supported Entities

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

Wordwall

  • 2x3 grid
  • orange-brown background
  • light green L
  • pink heart
  • black U
  • dark gray ?
  • green E
  • pink peace sign
  • beige background
  • gray background
  • yellow background
  • white background
  • dark green background
  • pink background

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806102023402037979857
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a1/a17d0c5dd98802a7ac5767e4c3bc8cdac250b520f46683a561bfad81ce0ffbcf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC
Archive ID
a17d0c5dd98802a7
SHA-256
a17d0c5dd98802a7ac5767e4c3bc8cdac250b520f46683a561bfad81ce0ffbcf
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:19 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079638

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated static image of a grid containing multiple distinct icons with varied backgrounds and symbols including letters, hearts, peace signs, and question marks.

Reviewed
August 16, 2026 at 20:39 UTC
Run
60
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,767 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 795

Review tags

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  • orange brown (color, 0.80)
  • background (object, 0.80)
  • icons (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • letter e (subject, 0.80)
  • letter l (subject, 0.80)
  • letter u (subject, 0.80)
  • peace sign (subject, 0.80)
  • question mark (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • orange-brown
  • light green
  • pink
  • black
  • yellow
  • dark gray
  • beige
  • gray
  • white
  • dark green

Composition

  • 2x3 layout
  • centered icons
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated static composition featuring a 2x3 grid of small square icons on an orange-brown background. Top-left icon: light green 'L' on beige background. Top-middle icon: pink heart with white outline on gray background. Top-right icon: black stylized 'U' on yellow background. Bottom-left icon: dark gray question mark on white background. Bottom-middle icon: green 'E' on dark green background. Bottom-right icon: pink peace sign on pink background. All icons have distinct color schemes and symbols with no visible text or animation.

Description

Pixelated static image of a grid containing multiple distinct icons with varied backgrounds and symbols including letters, hearts, peace signs, and question marks.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • unconfirmed visuallySupportedEntities not promoted: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • heart peace sign question mark
  • L U E icons grid
  • pink heart black U green E
  • pixelated icon set

Objects

  • icons
  • grid
  • background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016 collection
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Style

  • pixelated
  • static
  • icon grid

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • peace sign
  • question mark
  • letter L
  • letter U
  • letter E

Visible Text

  • L
  • U
  • E
  • ?

Visually Supported Entities

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

Wordwall

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  • orange-brown background
  • light green L
  • pink heart
  • black U
  • dark gray ?
  • green E
  • pink peace sign
  • beige background
  • gray background
  • yellow background
  • white background
  • dark green background
  • pink 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
200806102023402037979857
Archive entry
200806102023402037979857.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 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#200806102023402037979857.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806102023402037979857.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016