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Pixelated cyan background with purple plus signs and four instances of the word SINGLE in blue pixel font.

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Pixelated cyan background with purple plus signs and four instances of the word SINGLE in blue pixel font.

Pixelated cyan background with purple plus signs and four instances of the word SINGLE in blue pixel font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Mood

Color

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all observations show identical static content.

Composition

  • asymmetrical distribution
  • text positioned at corners

Dense Caption

Cyan background contains scattered purple plus-shaped pixels. Four instances of 'SINGLE' appear in blue, all-caps, pixelated text: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right positions. Purple plus signs vary in size (smaller dots to larger crosses) and are distributed across the cyan field without pattern. No visible motion or animation changes observed.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan background with purple plus signs and four instances of the word SINGLE in blue pixel font.

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
  • 20080421074537467189417

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background purple plus signs
  • blue SINGLE text four instances
  • pixelated cyan purple blue
  • retro digital pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; all observations show identical static content.

Visible Text

  • SINGLE

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • purple plus signs
  • blue 'SINGLE' text
  • four instances of text
  • pixelated font
  • scattered symbols

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080421074537467189417
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
579 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b4/b47be0f5d8e1157de427c1c333ec47275c7b8fd66dd9a8b96b79969226674006.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC
Archive ID
b47be0f5d8e1157d
SHA-256
b47be0f5d8e1157de427c1c333ec47275c7b8fd66dd9a8b96b79969226674006
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 08:27 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000027

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:29 UTC
Run
1136
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cyan background with purple plus signs and four instances of the word SINGLE in blue pixel font.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 06:54 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,564 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 563

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all observations show identical static content.

Colors

  • cyan
  • purple
  • blue

Composition

  • asymmetrical distribution
  • text positioned at corners

Dense Caption

Cyan background contains scattered purple plus-shaped pixels. Four instances of 'SINGLE' appear in blue, all-caps, pixelated text: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right positions. Purple plus signs vary in size (smaller dots to larger crosses) and are distributed across the cyan field without pattern. No visible motion or animation changes observed.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan background with purple plus signs and four instances of the word SINGLE in blue pixel font.

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
  • 20080421074537467189417

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background purple plus signs
  • blue SINGLE text four instances
  • pixelated cyan purple blue
  • retro digital pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; all observations show identical static content.

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • SINGLE

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • purple plus signs
  • blue 'SINGLE' text
  • four instances of text
  • pixelated font
  • scattered symbols
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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
20080421074537467189417
Archive entry
20080421074537467189417.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 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#20080421074537467189417.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080421074537467189417.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016