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Pixelated icon with pink and green diagonal stripes over a light blue background, featuring white-outlined text 'I L U' in the lower right.

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Pixelated icon with pink and green diagonal stripes over a light blue background, featuring white-outlined text 'I L U' in the lower right.

Pixelated icon with pink and green diagonal stripes over a light blue background, featuring white-outlined text 'I L U' in the lower right. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • diagonal stripes
  • scattered white pixels
  • text in lower right

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image with diagonal pink and green stripes overlaying a light blue background. White-outlined text 'I L U' appears in the lower right quadrant, with 'I' in pink, 'L' in light blue, and 'U' in green. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style with visible pixelation. The stripes extend from the top-left to bottom-right corners, creating a dynamic diagonal composition. The background is a solid light blue with scattered white pixel clusters resembling snow or stars.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with pink and green diagonal stripes over a light blue background, featuring white-outlined text 'I L U' in the lower right.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink green blue pixelated icon
  • I L U text icon
  • diagonal stripes pixel art
  • retro digital art icon

Visible Text

  • I
  • L
  • U

Wordwall

  • pink diagonal stripes
  • green diagonal stripes
  • light blue background
  • white-outlined text
  • I L U
  • pixelated
  • retro digital art
  • low-resolution
  • scattered white pixels
  • diagonal composition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070827082943333869242
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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/a2/a2973ba6850e986362d0f79f2f0937af6f28eb2121e909b58539229a192c5de9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
a2973ba6850e9863
SHA-256
a2973ba6850e986362d0f79f2f0937af6f28eb2121e909b58539229a192c5de9
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:36 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.061524

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated icon with pink and green diagonal stripes over a light blue background, featuring white-outlined text 'I L U' in the lower right.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 06:01 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,995 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 614

Review tags

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  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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  • pink
  • green
  • light blue
  • white

Composition

  • diagonal stripes
  • scattered white pixels
  • text in lower right

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image with diagonal pink and green stripes overlaying a light blue background. White-outlined text 'I L U' appears in the lower right quadrant, with 'I' in pink, 'L' in light blue, and 'U' in green. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style with visible pixelation. The stripes extend from the top-left to bottom-right corners, creating a dynamic diagonal composition. The background is a solid light blue with scattered white pixel clusters resembling snow or stars.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with pink and green diagonal stripes over a light blue background, featuring white-outlined text 'I L U' in the lower right.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink green blue pixelated icon
  • I L U text icon
  • diagonal stripes pixel art
  • retro digital art icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital art

Visible Text

  • I
  • L
  • U

Wordwall

  • pink diagonal stripes
  • green diagonal stripes
  • light blue background
  • white-outlined text
  • I L U
  • pixelated
  • retro digital art
  • low-resolution
  • scattered white pixels
  • diagonal composition
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:17 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070827082943333869242
Archive entry
20070827082943333869242.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#20070827082943333869242.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070827082943333869242.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016