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Pixelated image with purple text 'Aliens!' and a heart symbol over a group of people in dark clothing and hats, some holding objects, against a gray background.

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Pixelated image with purple text 'Aliens!' and a heart symbol over a group of people in dark clothing and hats, some holding objects, against a gray background.

Pixelated image with purple text 'Aliens!' and a heart symbol over a group of people in dark clothing and hats, some holding objects, against a gray background. 48×48 GIF AIM budd…

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Animation Summary

  • no animation observed

Composition

  • top-center text
  • centered heart symbol
  • group of figures

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image shows 'Aliens!' in purple block letters with black outline at top center. Below it, a purple heart symbol with black outline. Background is gray with subtle light and dark patches. Four figures in dark clothing and hats: left figure wears dark jacket and white shirt; right figure wears dark jacket and red collar; two central figures in dark clothing. One figure holds a white object resembling a guitar. All figures have blurred faces. Colors include purple, black, gray, white, dark blue, red, brown. Style is low-resolution pixel art with heavy dithering.

Description

Pixelated image with purple text 'Aliens!' and a heart symbol over a group of people in dark clothing and hats, some holding objects, against a gray background.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • aliens purple text heart symbol
  • purple heart gray background people
  • people dark clothing hats guitar
  • pixel art low-resolution gray background
  • aliens text heart symbol people
  • purple text heart symbol people dark clothing
  • gray background people dark clothing hats
  • people holding guitar purple text

Preprocessing Notes

  • image is heavily pixelated

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Aliens!

Wordwall

  • purple text 'Aliens!'
  • purple heart symbol
  • gray background
  • dark clothing
  • hats
  • white guitar-like object
  • blurred faces
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • black outline
  • dithering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090617124237291637874
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bd/bddfbc798befc2302eac4fa3ffb3426d8fd43a37599d26296f7622c270d6a520.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
bddfbc798befc230
SHA-256
bddfbc798befc2302eac4fa3ffb3426d8fd43a37599d26296f7622c270d6a520
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 11, 2026 at 08:13 UTC
Run
1281
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.016014

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:35 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated image with purple text 'Aliens!' and a heart symbol over a group of people in dark clothing and hats, some holding objects, against a gray background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 12:27 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,813 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 792

Review tags

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  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • guitar like object (object, 0.80)
  • dithering (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • four people (subject, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no animation observed

Colors

  • purple
  • black
  • gray
  • white
  • dark blue
  • red
  • brown

Composition

  • top-center text
  • centered heart symbol
  • group of figures

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image shows 'Aliens!' in purple block letters with black outline at top center. Below it, a purple heart symbol with black outline. Background is gray with subtle light and dark patches. Four figures in dark clothing and hats: left figure wears dark jacket and white shirt; right figure wears dark jacket and red collar; two central figures in dark clothing. One figure holds a white object resembling a guitar. All figures have blurred faces. Colors include purple, black, gray, white, dark blue, red, brown. Style is low-resolution pixel art with heavy dithering.

Description

Pixelated image with purple text 'Aliens!' and a heart symbol over a group of people in dark clothing and hats, some holding objects, against a gray background.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

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  • purple heart gray background people
  • people dark clothing hats guitar
  • pixel art low-resolution gray background
  • aliens text heart symbol people
  • purple text heart symbol people dark clothing
  • gray background people dark clothing hats
  • people holding guitar purple text

Objects

  • guitar-like object

Preprocessing Notes

  • image is heavily pixelated

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • dithering

Subjects

  • four people
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Aliens!

Wordwall

  • purple text 'Aliens!'
  • purple heart symbol
  • gray background
  • dark clothing
  • hats
  • white guitar-like object
  • blurred faces
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • black outline
  • dithering
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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
20090617124237291637874
Archive entry
20090617124237291637874.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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#20090617124237291637874.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090617124237291637874.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016