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Four identical circular icons with pink concentric rings on a yellow background, each containing text and a symbol.

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Four identical circular icons with pink concentric rings on a yellow background, each containing text and a symbol.

Four identical circular icons with pink concentric rings on a yellow background, each containing text and a symbol. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four icons display identical static content with no motion or frame differences.

Composition

  • centered text and symbols

Dense Caption

Four circular icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid yellow background. Each icon features three concentric pink rings. Centered within the rings, the text 'david' appears in lowercase black pixelated font, with a black '<3' symbol above it. A small black lowercase 'i' is positioned above the '<3' symbol. All four icons display identical visual content with no visible differences between them. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance consistent with early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Four identical circular icons with pink concentric rings on a yellow background, each containing text and a symbol.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200810301505051447787577
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow background pink rings david i
  • david i <3 pink rings yellow
  • yellow pink david i <3
  • david <3 i pink rings yellow

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • david
  • <3
  • i

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • pink concentric rings
  • black text
  • lowercase 'david'
  • black '<3' symbol
  • black 'i'
  • pixelated font
  • identical icons
  • solid color background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810301505051447787577
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
a3eb915a6fef9b4a
SHA-256
a3eb915a6fef9b4a54f1193466c2cd7a3099f086f9de2ac9e23ca006dccf3ccb
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:20 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.106771

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Four identical circular icons with pink concentric rings on a yellow background, each containing text and a symbol.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 06:16 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,195 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 701

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four icons display identical static content with no motion or frame differences.

Colors

  • yellow
  • pink
  • black

Composition

  • centered text and symbols

Dense Caption

Four circular icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid yellow background. Each icon features three concentric pink rings. Centered within the rings, the text 'david' appears in lowercase black pixelated font, with a black '<3' symbol above it. A small black lowercase 'i' is positioned above the '<3' symbol. All four icons display identical visual content with no visible differences between them. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance consistent with early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Four identical circular icons with pink concentric rings on a yellow background, each containing text and a symbol.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200810301505051447787577
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow background pink rings david i
  • david i <3 pink rings yellow
  • yellow pink david i <3
  • david <3 i pink rings yellow

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital graphics

Visible Text

  • david
  • <3
  • i

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • pink concentric rings
  • black text
  • lowercase 'david'
  • black '<3' symbol
  • black 'i'
  • pixelated font
  • identical icons
  • solid color 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
200810301505051447787577
Archive entry
200810301505051447787577.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#200810301505051447787577.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810301505051447787577.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016