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Four distinct pixelated text icons arranged in a , each with unique backgrounds and lettering styles

Four distinct pixelated text icons arranged in a , each with unique backgrounds and lettering styles. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four distinct sections

Dense Caption

Top-left: vertical black rectangle containing white 'I' on horizontal pastel stripes (purple, blue, pink, green, yellow). Top-right: bold white 'ROCK' letters with black outline on light blue background featuring a large white circle. Bottom-left: bold white 'UR' letters with black outline on white background with faint pixelated hearts and butterflies. Bottom-right: bold white 'SOCKS' letters with black outline on rainbow spiral background. All text uses blocky, rounded sans-serif font.

Description

  • Four distinct pixelated text icons arranged in a , each with unique backgrounds and lettering styles

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080308054443460096671

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I ROCK UR SOCKS
  • vertical I text icon
  • ROCK on blue sky background
  • UR with heart butterflies
  • SOCKS rainbow spiral

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four distinct pixelated text icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with unique backgrounds and lettering styles.
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout

Visible Text

  • I
  • ROCK
  • UR
  • SOCKS

Wordwall

  • vertical 'I'
  • 'ROCK' in top-right
  • 'UR' in bottom-left
  • 'SOCKS' in bottom-right
  • pastel stripes background
  • light blue sky background
  • white heart/butterfly background
  • rainbow spiral background
  • blocky sans-serif text
  • black outline on white letters

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080308054443460096671
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 15:17 UTC
Archive ID
af4ef220ada5f75f
SHA-256
af4ef220ada5f75f96d4d8fcf2aed46629597d852b0112ed02f9062875d100e4
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:26 UTC
Run
1136
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.101598

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Four distinct pixelated text icons arranged in a , each with unique backgrounds and lettering styles

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 05:15 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,097 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 707

Review tags

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  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
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  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • text characters (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • blue
  • pink
  • green
  • yellow
  • light blue
  • white
  • black
  • rainbow spectrum

Composition

  • four distinct sections

Dense Caption

Top-left: vertical black rectangle containing white 'I' on horizontal pastel stripes (purple, blue, pink, green, yellow). Top-right: bold white 'ROCK' letters with black outline on light blue background featuring a large white circle. Bottom-left: bold white 'UR' letters with black outline on white background with faint pixelated hearts and butterflies. Bottom-right: bold white 'SOCKS' letters with black outline on rainbow spiral background. All text uses blocky, rounded sans-serif font.

Description

  • Four distinct pixelated text icons arranged in a , each with unique backgrounds and lettering styles

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080308054443460096671

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • I ROCK UR SOCKS
  • vertical I text icon
  • ROCK on blue sky background
  • UR with heart butterflies
  • SOCKS rainbow spiral

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four distinct pixelated text icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with unique backgrounds and lettering styles.
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout

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  • pixelated
  • blocky
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Subjects

  • text characters

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  • I
  • ROCK
  • UR
  • SOCKS

Wordwall

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  • 'ROCK' in top-right
  • 'UR' in bottom-left
  • 'SOCKS' in bottom-right
  • pastel stripes background
  • light blue sky background
  • white heart/butterfly background
  • rainbow spiral background
  • blocky sans-serif text
  • black outline on white 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
20080308054443460096671
Archive entry
20080308054443460096671.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#20080308054443460096671.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080308054443460096671.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016