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A pixelated eye with blue and purple hues, a rainbow-colored butterfly on black background, and a red 'U' on a multicolored striped backdrop.

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A pixelated eye with blue and purple hues, a rainbow-colored butterfly on black background, and a red 'U' on a multicolored striped backdrop.

A pixelated eye with blue and purple hues, a rainbow-colored butterfly on black background, and a red 'U' on a multicolored striped backdrop. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon fro…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • close-up
  • striped background
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image is a four-quadrant composition. Top-left quadrant shows a close-up of a human eye with blue and purple iris, black eyelashes, and pinkish skin tones. Top-right quadrant displays a rainbow-colored butterfly with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple hues on a black background. Bottom-left quadrant features a red 'U' with black outline on a multicolored striped background with pink, blue, green, and yellow. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. The image has a pixelated rendering style with visible dithering.

Description

A pixelated eye with blue and purple hues, a rainbow-colored butterfly on black background, and a red 'U' on a multicolored striped backdrop.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • eye butterfly U
  • rainbow butterfly blue eye
  • multicolored stripes U
  • pixelated eye butterfly
  • blue purple eye
  • red U black background
  • rainbow butterfly gray background
  • striped background eye

Objects

  • butterfly
  • U

Subjects

  • eye
  • butterfly
  • U

Visible Text

  • U

Wordwall

  • eye
  • butterfly
  • U
  • rainbow
  • black background
  • multicolored stripes
  • pixelated
  • gray background
  • blue iris
  • red outline
  • pink skin
  • green stripes
  • yellow stripes
  • purple stripes
  • dithering
  • close-up
  • striped background
  • solid gray
  • black outline
  • blue hues

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081117134516268613451
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
50×50 pixels
File size
4.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
a2103b6ee33e763e
SHA-256
a2103b6ee33e763e481fda65e97a6014a9cbbc99e79348bfdf942c78729df752
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:19 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093044

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated eye with blue and purple hues, a rainbow-colored butterfly on black background, and a red 'U' on a multicolored striped backdrop.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 09:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,421 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 762

Review tags

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  • green (color, 0.80)
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  • eye (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
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  • orange
  • yellow
  • green
  • pink
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • close-up
  • striped background
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image is a four-quadrant composition. Top-left quadrant shows a close-up of a human eye with blue and purple iris, black eyelashes, and pinkish skin tones. Top-right quadrant displays a rainbow-colored butterfly with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple hues on a black background. Bottom-left quadrant features a red 'U' with black outline on a multicolored striped background with pink, blue, green, and yellow. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. The image has a pixelated rendering style with visible dithering.

Description

A pixelated eye with blue and purple hues, a rainbow-colored butterfly on black background, and a red 'U' on a multicolored striped backdrop.

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

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  • green stripes
  • yellow stripes
  • purple stripes
  • dithering
  • close-up
  • striped background
  • solid gray
  • black outline
  • blue hues
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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
20081117134516268613451
Archive entry
20081117134516268613451.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#20081117134516268613451.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081117134516268613451.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016