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Four identical circular icons with concentric pink rings on a cyan background, each containing the text "BILLY" in black pixelated font.

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Four identical circular icons with concentric pink rings on a cyan background, each containing the text "BILLY" in black pixelated font.

Four identical circular icons with concentric pink rings on a cyan background, each containing the text "BILLY" in black pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Int…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Four circular icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on a cyan background. Each icon features multiple concentric pink rings with a cyan center. The text "BILLY" appears in black pixelated font at the center of each icon. The icons are identical in design and color scheme. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Four identical circular icons with concentric pink rings on a cyan background, each containing the text "BILLY" in black pixelated font.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pink rings BILLY
  • BILLY pixelated text concentric rings
  • four identical icons cyan pink
  • BILLY icons
  • pixelated BILLY cyan background
  • concentric pink rings cyan center
  • static icon BILLY text
  • BILLY four icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: BILLY four icons grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid BILLY icons

Visible Text

  • BILLY

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • concentric pink rings
  • black pixelated text
  • four identical icons
  • text BILLY
  • cyan center
  • pixelated font
  • static image
  • identical icons

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091129160523342236180
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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
icons/a5/a50ecc9efdb551c26aa9e882f041abc06fd6213369ff979ea22bd3a993f9b6e7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
a50ecc9efdb551c2
SHA-256
a50ecc9efdb551c26aa9e882f041abc06fd6213369ff979ea22bd3a993f9b6e7
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:21 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.068810

OpenAI category scores

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Four identical circular icons with concentric pink rings on a cyan background, each containing the text "BILLY" in black pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 20:49 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,939 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,105, response 707

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • concentric pink rings (object, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • text billy (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • pink
  • black

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Four circular icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on a cyan background. Each icon features multiple concentric pink rings with a cyan center. The text "BILLY" appears in black pixelated font at the center of each icon. The icons are identical in design and color scheme. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Four identical circular icons with concentric pink rings on a cyan background, each containing the text "BILLY" in black pixelated font.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background pink rings BILLY
  • BILLY pixelated text concentric rings
  • four identical icons cyan pink
  • BILLY icons
  • pixelated BILLY cyan background
  • concentric pink rings cyan center
  • static icon BILLY text
  • BILLY four icons

Objects

  • concentric pink rings

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: BILLY four icons grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid BILLY icons

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • text BILLY

Visible Text

  • BILLY

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • concentric pink rings
  • black pixelated text
  • four identical icons
  • text BILLY
  • cyan center
  • pixelated font
  • static image
  • identical icons
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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
20091129160523342236180
Archive entry
20091129160523342236180.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#20091129160523342236180.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20091129160523342236180.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016