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Cyan background with green dashed borders and asterisk accents, four purple "Tee<3" text blocks at corners, static pixel art style.

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Cyan background with green dashed borders and asterisk accents, four purple "Tee<3" text blocks at corners, static pixel art style.

Cyan background with green dashed borders and asterisk accents, four purple "Tee<3" text blocks at corners, static pixel art style. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes

Composition

  • four-corner text placement
  • center cross with asterisk clusters
  • symmetrical border

Dense Caption

Cyan background with green dashed borders and asterisk accents. Four identical purple "Tee<3" text blocks positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners. Green dashed lines form a cross at center with asterisk clusters at intersections. All elements are static pixel art with no visible animation changes. Text uses a pixelated font with purple color. Border elements include solid green lines, dashed green lines, and green asterisks. Background is solid cyan. No additional subjects, objects, or actions present.

Description

  • Cyan background with green dashed borders and asterisk accents, four purple "Tee<3" text blocks at corners, static pixel art style.

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

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background green borders asterisk accents
  • four purple Tee<3 text blocks
  • pixel art static cyan green purple
  • center cross asterisk clusters

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed

Visible Text

  • Tee<3

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • green dashed borders
  • asterisk accents
  • four purple "Tee<3" text blocks
  • pixelated font
  • solid green lines
  • dashed green lines
  • center cross
  • asterisk clusters
  • static pixel art

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201002161248501216540359
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
652 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/be/be6aa0243437146b0fa7957f72d0a89d5f862fe4a6d99bae571f6bdee2222fae.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC
Archive ID
be6aa0243437146b
SHA-256
be6aa0243437146b0fa7957f72d0a89d5f862fe4a6d99bae571f6bdee2222fae
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
0.093852

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Cyan background with green dashed borders and asterisk accents, four purple "Tee<3" text blocks at corners, static pixel art style.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 17:13 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,252 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 602

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes

Colors

  • cyan
  • green
  • purple

Composition

  • four-corner text placement
  • center cross with asterisk clusters
  • symmetrical border

Dense Caption

Cyan background with green dashed borders and asterisk accents. Four identical purple "Tee<3" text blocks positioned at top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners. Green dashed lines form a cross at center with asterisk clusters at intersections. All elements are static pixel art with no visible animation changes. Text uses a pixelated font with purple color. Border elements include solid green lines, dashed green lines, and green asterisks. Background is solid cyan. No additional subjects, objects, or actions present.

Description

  • Cyan background with green dashed borders and asterisk accents, four purple "Tee<3" text blocks at corners, static pixel art style.

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

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background green borders asterisk accents
  • four purple Tee<3 text blocks
  • pixel art static cyan green purple
  • center cross asterisk clusters

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed

Style

  • pixel art
  • static

Visible Text

  • Tee<3

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • green dashed borders
  • asterisk accents
  • four purple "Tee<3" text blocks
  • pixelated font
  • solid green lines
  • dashed green lines
  • center cross
  • asterisk clusters
  • static pixel art
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:12 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
201002161248501216540359
Archive entry
201002161248501216540359.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 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#201002161248501216540359.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201002161248501216540359.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016