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Black and white pixelated text 'LOL' with rounded letterforms on a plain background.

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Black and white pixelated text 'LOL' with rounded letterforms on a plain background.

Black and white pixelated text 'LOL' with rounded letterforms on a plain background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image displays the text 'LOL' rendered in a pixelated, grayscale style. The letters are bold and have rounded edges; the 'O' is circular while the 'L's are angular. The entire text block has a thick black outline with internal shading using varying gray tones to create depth. The background is solid white without any additional elements or decorations.

Description

  • Black and white pixelated text 'LOL' with rounded letterforms on a plain background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080531123502726839254

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • LOL pixelated text
  • grayscale LOL icon
  • humorous text icon
  • buddy icon LOL

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but does not alter the visual content description.

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Visible Text

  • LOL

Visually Supported Entities

  • humor

Wordwall

  • text: LOL
  • pixelated style
  • grayscale rendering
  • bold letterforms
  • rounded edges
  • black outline
  • solid white background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080531123502726839254
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a8/a8882855e3360100fecc7e42fc1b3a4dce20283b62f68da27b7d09a623819ed6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC
Archive ID
a8882855e3360100
SHA-256
a8882855e3360100fecc7e42fc1b3a4dce20283b62f68da27b7d09a623819ed6
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:23 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.120724

OpenAI category scores

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Black and white pixelated text 'LOL' with rounded letterforms on a plain background.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 20:48 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,511 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 764

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • bold letterforms (style, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

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  • centered text
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image displays the text 'LOL' rendered in a pixelated, grayscale style. The letters are bold and have rounded edges; the 'O' is circular while the 'L's are angular. The entire text block has a thick black outline with internal shading using varying gray tones to create depth. The background is solid white without any additional elements or decorations.

Description

  • Black and white pixelated text 'LOL' with rounded letterforms on a plain background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080531123502726839254

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • LOL pixelated text
  • grayscale LOL icon
  • humorous text icon
  • buddy icon LOL

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but does not alter the visual content description.

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
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  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
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  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • bold letterforms

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • LOL

Visually Supported Entities

  • humor

Wordwall

  • text: LOL
  • pixelated style
  • grayscale rendering
  • bold letterforms
  • rounded edges
  • black outline
  • solid white 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
20080531123502726839254
Archive entry
20080531123502726839254.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 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#20080531123502726839254.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080531123502726839254.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016