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Four circular icons arranged in a , each displaying 'hey what up' text on a gradient background transitioning from yellow to pink

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Four circular icons arranged in a , each displaying 'hey what up' text on a gradient background transitioning from yellow to pink

Four circular icons arranged in a , each displaying 'hey what up' text on a gradient background transitioning from yellow to pink. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four icons display identical static content.

Composition

  • circular icons
  • centered text
  • even spacing

Dense Caption

Four circular icons arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each icon features the text 'hey what up' in orange pixelated font. The background of each icon transitions from yellow at the center to pink at the edges. The icons are identical in design and text content. The overall background of the image is solid pink. The text is centered within each circular icon. The font style is blocky and pixelated, characteristic of early digital graphics. The color gradient within each icon creates a soft, glowing effect. The icons are evenly spaced in the grid layout.

Description

  • Four circular icons arranged in a , each displaying 'hey what up' text on a gradient background transitioning from yellow to pink

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

  • four circular icons yellow pink gradient
  • hey what up pixelated text
  • orange text
  • yellow pink gradient icons
  • pixelated hey what up
  • orange text yellow background
  • circular icons pink background
  • blocky font hey what up

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four circular icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each displaying 'hey what up' text on a gradient background transitioning from yellow to pink.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid orange text

Style

  • gradient

Visible Text

  • hey what up

Wordwall

  • four circular icons
  • yellow to pink gradient
  • orange pixelated text
  • hey what up
  • centered text
  • blocky font
  • solid pink background
  • evenly spaced
  • identical icons

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090517135055458034213
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/aa/aa174af3e0cdbf1f21cd26f095935316db6e08b37efd42f6e34458627def76e5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC
Archive ID
aa174af3e0cdbf1f
SHA-256
aa174af3e0cdbf1f21cd26f095935316db6e08b37efd42f6e34458627def76e5
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.081890

OpenAI category scores

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Four circular icons arranged in a , each displaying 'hey what up' text on a gradient background transitioning from yellow to pink

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 10:02 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,541 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 731

Review tags

  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible motion (other, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • gradient (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four icons display identical static content.

Colors

  • pink
  • yellow
  • orange

Composition

  • circular icons
  • centered text
  • even spacing

Dense Caption

Four circular icons arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each icon features the text 'hey what up' in orange pixelated font. The background of each icon transitions from yellow at the center to pink at the edges. The icons are identical in design and text content. The overall background of the image is solid pink. The text is centered within each circular icon. The font style is blocky and pixelated, characteristic of early digital graphics. The color gradient within each icon creates a soft, glowing effect. The icons are evenly spaced in the grid layout.

Description

  • Four circular icons arranged in a , each displaying 'hey what up' text on a gradient background transitioning from yellow to pink

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

  • casual
  • friendly

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four circular icons yellow pink gradient
  • hey what up pixelated text
  • orange text
  • yellow pink gradient icons
  • pixelated hey what up
  • orange text yellow background
  • circular icons pink background
  • blocky font hey what up

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid orange text

Style

  • pixelated
  • gradient
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • hey what up

Wordwall

  • four circular icons
  • yellow to pink gradient
  • orange pixelated text
  • hey what up
  • centered text
  • blocky font
  • solid pink background
  • evenly spaced
  • 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
20090517135055458034213
Archive entry
20090517135055458034213.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 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#20090517135055458034213.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090517135055458034213.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016