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Pixelated orange text on a pink-purple gradient background with a gray rectangle on the right side.

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Pixelated orange text on a pink-purple gradient background with a gray rectangle on the right side.

Pixelated orange text on a pink-purple gradient background with a gray rectangle on the right side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text arranged in three sections
  • gray rectangle on right
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

The image contains pixelated orange text with white outlines. Top-left text reads 'hey its rylee'. Top-right text reads 'i don't need'. Bottom-left text reads 'a guy' with a small orange square above 'a' and a pixelated orange rectangle below 'guy'. The background is a pink-purple gradient with scattered white dots. A solid gray rectangle occupies the rightmost portion of the image. All text is in lowercase except for the 'i' in 'i don't need', which is uppercase. The text has a blocky, retro digital style.

Description

  • Pixelated orange text on a pink-purple gradient background with a gray rectangle on the right side.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • rylee

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hey its rylee
  • i don't need
  • a guy
  • orange text pink background
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated text
  • retro digital style
  • blocky font

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image

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

Subjects

  • background

Visible Text

  • hey its rylee
  • i don't need
  • a guy

Wordwall

  • orange text
  • pink-purple gradient background
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated text
  • white outlines
  • lowercase text
  • retro digital style
  • scattered white dots
  • blocky font
  • small square above 'a'
  • rectangle below 'guy'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901201810151884113638
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ab/abdcbca038dc799c9d86e76569cdf00f8fd42576ad4a2b8538fdc96a6d60d72d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC
Archive ID
abdcbca038dc799c
SHA-256
abdcbca038dc799c9d86e76569cdf00f8fd42576ad4a2b8538fdc96a6d60d72d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:24 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081062

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.926916onnx/unsafe0.081062onnx/nsfl0.041923onnx/nsfw0.039139
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated orange text on a pink-purple gradient background with a gray rectangle on the right side.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 19:21 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,261 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 793

Review tags

  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • background (subject, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • orange
  • pink
  • purple
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • text arranged in three sections
  • gray rectangle on right
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

The image contains pixelated orange text with white outlines. Top-left text reads 'hey its rylee'. Top-right text reads 'i don't need'. Bottom-left text reads 'a guy' with a small orange square above 'a' and a pixelated orange rectangle below 'guy'. The background is a pink-purple gradient with scattered white dots. A solid gray rectangle occupies the rightmost portion of the image. All text is in lowercase except for the 'i' in 'i don't need', which is uppercase. The text has a blocky, retro digital style.

Description

  • Pixelated orange text on a pink-purple gradient background with a gray rectangle on the right side.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • rylee

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • casual

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hey its rylee
  • i don't need
  • a guy
  • orange text pink background
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated text
  • retro digital style
  • blocky font

Objects

  • gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • text
  • background
  • gray rectangle

Visible Text

  • hey its rylee
  • i don't need
  • a guy

Wordwall

  • orange text
  • pink-purple gradient background
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated text
  • white outlines
  • lowercase text
  • retro digital style
  • scattered white dots
  • blocky font
  • small square above 'a'
  • rectangle below 'guy'
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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
200901201810151884113638
Archive entry
200901201810151884113638.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 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#200901201810151884113638.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901201810151884113638.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016