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Pixelated palm tree against blue sky in top-left quadrant, vertical pink text "CAROL" on black background right, vertical pink text "INA." with heart symbol below on black background left.

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Pixelated palm tree against blue sky in top-left quadrant, vertical pink text "CAROL" on black background right, vertical pink text "INA." with heart symbol below on black background left.

Pixelated palm tree against blue sky in top-left quadrant, vertical pink text "CAROL" on black background right, vertical pink text "INA." with heart symbol below on black backgro…

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Composition

  • quadrant
  • top-left image
  • right-side vertical text
  • left-side vertical text
  • bottom-right plain square

Dense Caption

Top-left quadrant shows pixelated palm trees with light brown fronds and green foliage against a light blue sky. Top-right quadrant has vertical pink block letters spelling "CAROL" on solid black background. Bottom-left quadrant displays vertical pink block letters spelling "INA." followed by a small pink heart symbol, all on solid black background. Bottom-right quadrant is plain gray. All text uses pixelated font style with rounded edges.

Description

Pixelated palm tree against blue sky in top-left quadrant, vertical pink text "CAROL" on black background right, vertical pink text "INA." with heart symbol below on black background left.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • palm trees blue sky pink text black background gray square

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: quadrant grid

Visible Text

  • CAROL
  • INA.

Visually Supported Entities

  • CAROL
  • INA.

Wordwall

  • pixelated palm trees
  • light blue sky
  • vertical pink text
  • black backgrounds
  • gray square
  • heart symbol
  • block letters

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805101607051478483153
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC
Archive ID
ae623a78e30dfa4d
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:26 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.120249

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Pixelated palm tree against blue sky in top-left quadrant, vertical pink text "CAROL" on black background right, vertical pink text "INA." with heart symbol below on black background left.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 13:50 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,537 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 608

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
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  • light blue
  • black
  • pink
  • gray
  • green
  • brown

Composition

  • quadrant
  • top-left image
  • right-side vertical text
  • left-side vertical text
  • bottom-right plain square

Dense Caption

Top-left quadrant shows pixelated palm trees with light brown fronds and green foliage against a light blue sky. Top-right quadrant has vertical pink block letters spelling "CAROL" on solid black background. Bottom-left quadrant displays vertical pink block letters spelling "INA." followed by a small pink heart symbol, all on solid black background. Bottom-right quadrant is plain gray. All text uses pixelated font style with rounded edges.

Description

Pixelated palm tree against blue sky in top-left quadrant, vertical pink text "CAROL" on black background right, vertical pink text "INA." with heart symbol below on black background left.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • palm trees blue sky pink text black background gray square

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: quadrant grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • vertical text layout

Subjects

  • palm trees

Visible Text

  • CAROL
  • INA.

Visually Supported Entities

  • CAROL
  • INA.

Wordwall

  • pixelated palm trees
  • light blue sky
  • vertical pink text
  • black backgrounds
  • gray square
  • heart symbol
  • block letters
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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
200805101607051478483153
Archive entry
200805101607051478483153.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 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#200805101607051478483153.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805101607051478483153.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016