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Purple text 'paulie<3' repeated twice horizontally at top and bottom of white background with scattered black dots.

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Purple text 'paulie<3' repeated twice horizontally at top and bottom of white background with scattered black dots.

Purple text 'paulie<3' repeated twice horizontally at top and bottom of white background with scattered black dots. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical horizontal
  • vertical dot between
  • minimalist layout

Dense Caption

White background contains two horizontal rows of purple text reading 'paulie<3', one row positioned near the top edge and another near the bottom edge. Between these rows, a vertical column of small black square pixels is arranged in a loose downward cascade from center-top to center-bottom. The entire composition has no additional shapes or colors beyond white background, purple text, and scattered black dots.

Description

  • Purple text 'paulie<3' repeated twice horizontally at top and bottom of white background with scattered black dots.

Identity Hypotheses

  • paulie (name)
  • paulie (character)

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

Named Entities

  • paulie

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • paulie<3 text
  • purple text white background
  • black dot
  • two horizontal

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: black dot column
  • quarantined wordwall: two horizontal rows
  • quarantined composition: vertical dot column between rows
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical horizontal rows
  • quarantined retrieval: two horizontal rows
  • quarantined retrieval: black dot column

Visible Text

  • paulie<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • paulie

Wordwall

  • white background
  • purple text 'paulie<3'
  • two horizontal
  • black dot
  • scattered black pixels

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710071853442139740704
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bd/bdd7e738a53df57054119400b1ebb6dc76e547109e5d31d8b4eb918dc9a185d0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC
Archive ID
bdd7e738a53df570
SHA-256
bdd7e738a53df57054119400b1ebb6dc76e547109e5d31d8b4eb918dc9a185d0
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:35 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.110111

OpenAI category scores

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Purple text 'paulie<3' repeated twice horizontally at top and bottom of white background with scattered black dots.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 08:16 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,676 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 603

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome text on white background (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text paulie 3 (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • purple
  • black

Composition

  • symmetrical horizontal
  • vertical dot between
  • minimalist layout

Dense Caption

White background contains two horizontal rows of purple text reading 'paulie<3', one row positioned near the top edge and another near the bottom edge. Between these rows, a vertical column of small black square pixels is arranged in a loose downward cascade from center-top to center-bottom. The entire composition has no additional shapes or colors beyond white background, purple text, and scattered black dots.

Description

  • Purple text 'paulie<3' repeated twice horizontally at top and bottom of white background with scattered black dots.

Identity Hypotheses

  • paulie (name)
  • paulie (character)

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

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful

Named Entities

  • paulie

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • paulie<3 text
  • purple text white background
  • black dot
  • two horizontal

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: black dot column
  • quarantined wordwall: two horizontal rows
  • quarantined composition: vertical dot column between rows
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical horizontal rows
  • quarantined retrieval: two horizontal rows
  • quarantined retrieval: black dot column

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • monochrome text on white background

Subjects

  • text 'paulie<3'

Visible Text

  • paulie<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • paulie

Wordwall

  • white background
  • purple text 'paulie<3'
  • two horizontal
  • black dot
  • scattered black pixels
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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
200710071853442139740704
Archive entry
200710071853442139740704.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 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#200710071853442139740704.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710071853442139740704.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016