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six distinct buddy icons with text overlays, each featuring unique backgrounds and color schemes

six distinct buddy icons with text overlays, each featuring unique backgrounds and color schemes. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Source terms

Composition

  • text on black rectangles
  • varied backgrounds

Dense Caption

Six buddy icons arranged in a 2x3 grid. Top-left: grayscale image of a person with text "Alexandra" and "W29's". Top-middle: pastel polka dots with text "page". Top-right: multicolored small shapes with text "rox". Bottom-left: dark background with green and pink hearts and text "your". Bottom-middle: colorful flowers with text "fluro" and "green". Bottom-right: abstract shapes with text "sox!". All text is in white on black rectangular backgrounds.

Description

  • six distinct buddy icons with text overlays, each featuring unique backgrounds and color schemes

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

  • buddy icons with text overlays
  • icons
  • pastel polka dots text page
  • multicolored small shapes text rox
  • dark background hearts text your
  • colorful flowers text fluro green
  • abstract shapes text sox!

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of six distinct buddy icons with text overlays, each featuring unique backgrounds and color schemes.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x3 grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x3 grid of icons

Visible Text

  • Alexandra
  • W29's
  • page
  • rox
  • your
  • fluro
  • green
  • sox!

Wordwall

  • grayscale person
  • pastel polka dots
  • multicolored small shapes
  • dark background hearts
  • colorful flowers
  • abstract shapes
  • text overlays
  • black rectangular backgrounds
  • white text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902280118011428093714
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
7.7 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a5/a5f060e66c45bb816c203bb4cd0f575a385d1f277f5a3314e6b22af65fb46fb4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
a5f060e66c45bb81
SHA-256
a5f060e66c45bb816c203bb4cd0f575a385d1f277f5a3314e6b22af65fb46fb4
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 02:27 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.098103

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:21 UTC
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1135
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Overall label
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six distinct buddy icons with text overlays, each featuring unique backgrounds and color schemes

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 00:50 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,373 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,168, response 790

Review tags

  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • polka dots (object, 0.80)
  • small shapes (object, 0.80)
  • text overlays (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text heavy (style, 0.80)
  • abstract shapes (subject, 0.80)
  • flowers (subject, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • grayscale
  • pastel
  • multicolored
  • dark
  • colorful
  • light

Composition

  • text on black rectangles
  • varied backgrounds

Dense Caption

Six buddy icons arranged in a 2x3 grid. Top-left: grayscale image of a person with text "Alexandra" and "W29's". Top-middle: pastel polka dots with text "page". Top-right: multicolored small shapes with text "rox". Bottom-left: dark background with green and pink hearts and text "your". Bottom-middle: colorful flowers with text "fluro" and "green". Bottom-right: abstract shapes with text "sox!". All text is in white on black rectangular backgrounds.

Description

  • six distinct buddy icons with text overlays, each featuring unique backgrounds and color schemes

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
  • casual
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • icons
  • pastel polka dots text page
  • multicolored small shapes text rox
  • dark background hearts text your
  • colorful flowers text fluro green
  • abstract shapes text sox!

Objects

  • text overlays
  • polka dots
  • small shapes
  • hearts
  • flowers
  • abstract shapes

Preprocessing Notes

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Style

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Subjects

  • person
  • hearts
  • flowers
  • abstract shapes

Visible Text

  • Alexandra
  • W29's
  • page
  • rox
  • your
  • fluro
  • green
  • sox!

Wordwall

  • grayscale person
  • pastel polka dots
  • multicolored small shapes
  • dark background hearts
  • colorful flowers
  • abstract shapes
  • text overlays
  • black rectangular backgrounds
  • white text
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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
200902280118011428093714
Archive entry
200902280118011428093714.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#200902280118011428093714.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902280118011428093714.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016