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Four identical blue circular frames with white text "LUV U CARLY!!!!!" and two vertical dots above, set against a black background.

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Four identical blue circular frames with white text "LUV U CARLY!!!!!" and two vertical dots above, set against a black background.

Four identical blue circular frames with white text "LUV U CARLY!!!!!" and two vertical dots above, set against a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • concentric rings

Dense Caption

Four identical blue circular frames with white text "LUV U CARLY!!!!!" and two vertical dots above, set against a black background. Each frame has multiple concentric blue rings. The text is centered within each frame. The frames are arranged in a 2x2 grid. The blue rings have varying thicknesses. The background is solid black. The text uses a pixelated font. The exclamation marks are four in number. The vertical dots are positioned above the text. The frames are evenly spaced.

Description

  • Four identical blue circular frames with white text "LUV U CARLY!!!!!" and two vertical dots above, set against a black 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 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

  • LUV U CARLY
  • blue circular frames
  • two vertical dots
  • four exclamation marks
  • pixelated text
  • black background
  • concentric blue rings

Preprocessing Notes

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

Visible Text

  • LUV U CARLY!!!!!
  • ii

Wordwall

  • blue circular frames
  • white text
  • LUV U CARLY!!!!!
  • two vertical dots
  • black background
  • concentric blue rings
  • pixelated font
  • four exclamation marks
  • evenly spaced

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200707241907191352246047
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/aa/aa9f35f7a824bec3c869d22f9c8ff92aed5704dd4a9c123cac157c195711dce6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 UTC
Archive ID
aa9f35f7a824bec3
SHA-256
aa9f35f7a824bec3c869d22f9c8ff92aed5704dd4a9c123cac157c195711dce6
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:24 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080036

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four identical blue circular frames with white text "LUV U CARLY!!!!!" and two vertical dots above, set against a black background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 13:58 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,233 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 703

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • enthusiastic (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • centered text
  • concentric rings

Dense Caption

Four identical blue circular frames with white text "LUV U CARLY!!!!!" and two vertical dots above, set against a black background. Each frame has multiple concentric blue rings. The text is centered within each frame. The frames are arranged in a 2x2 grid. The blue rings have varying thicknesses. The background is solid black. The text uses a pixelated font. The exclamation marks are four in number. The vertical dots are positioned above the text. The frames are evenly spaced.

Description

  • Four identical blue circular frames with white text "LUV U CARLY!!!!!" and two vertical dots above, set against a black 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 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

  • affectionate
  • enthusiastic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • LUV U CARLY
  • blue circular frames
  • two vertical dots
  • four exclamation marks
  • pixelated text
  • black background
  • concentric blue rings

Preprocessing Notes

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • repetitive

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • LUV U CARLY!!!!!
  • ii

Wordwall

  • blue circular frames
  • white text
  • LUV U CARLY!!!!!
  • two vertical dots
  • black background
  • concentric blue rings
  • pixelated font
  • four exclamation marks
  • evenly spaced
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:08 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200707241907191352246047
Archive entry
200707241907191352246047.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 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#200707241907191352246047.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200707241907191352246047.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016