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Pixelated icon with four colored quadrants and yellow text 'carly' on a pink outline.

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Pixelated icon with four colored quadrants and yellow text 'carly' on a pink outline.

Pixelated icon with four colored quadrants and yellow text 'carly' on a pink outline. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to…

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image with four colored quadrants and centered text.

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • four quadrants
  • white dividing lines

Dense Caption

The icon is a static 4x4 pixel grid divided into four equal quadrants by white lines. Top-left quadrant is pink with a subtle checkerboard pattern. Top-right quadrant is bright yellow with a subtle checkerboard pattern. Bottom-left quadrant is orange with a subtle checkerboard pattern. Bottom-right quadrant is cyan with a subtle checkerboard pattern. Centered over the quadrants is the word 'carly' in yellow lowercase letters with a thick pink outline. The text has a pixelated appearance with visible dithering. The icon uses a limited color palette of pink, yellow, orange, cyan, and white. The overall style is retro digital with a low-resolution aesthetic. The text 'carly' is the only visible text element. The icon has no discernible subjects, actions, or objects beyond the text and background patterns. The composition is symmetrical with the text overlapping all four quadrants. The icon's visual elements are consistent across all quadrants with no motion or animation present.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with four colored quadrants and yellow text 'carly' on a pink outline.

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

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806192003471645433063
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four quadrants yellow text pink outline
  • retro digital icon yellow text
  • pixelated icon four quadrants cyan orange
  • low-resolution icon yellow text pink outline
  • yellow text carly pink outline
  • cyan orange yellow pink quadrants
  • checkerboard patterns four quadrants
  • symmetrical pixelated icon text carly

Visible Text

  • carly

Wordwall

  • four quadrants
  • pink top-left
  • yellow top-right
  • orange bottom-left
  • cyan bottom-right
  • white dividing lines
  • yellow text
  • pink outline
  • pixelated
  • checkerboard patterns
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
  • symmetrical composition
  • text 'carly'
  • subtle dithering
  • limited color palette

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806192003471645433063
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Still image
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 15:30 UTC
Archive ID
c04ba0d2feeb93f8
SHA-256
c04ba0d2feeb93f871d135f12c9c9515f8f3045385bd57d5a5ca93786ceef169
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Assessed
August 12, 2026 at 11:10 UTC
Run
1284
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.002915

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July 23, 2026 at 19:36 UTC
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Overall label
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Pixelated icon with four colored quadrants and yellow text 'carly' on a pink outline.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 07:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,878 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 836

Review tags

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  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image with four colored quadrants and centered text.

Colors

  • pink
  • yellow
  • orange
  • cyan
  • white

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • four quadrants
  • white dividing lines

Dense Caption

The icon is a static 4x4 pixel grid divided into four equal quadrants by white lines. Top-left quadrant is pink with a subtle checkerboard pattern. Top-right quadrant is bright yellow with a subtle checkerboard pattern. Bottom-left quadrant is orange with a subtle checkerboard pattern. Bottom-right quadrant is cyan with a subtle checkerboard pattern. Centered over the quadrants is the word 'carly' in yellow lowercase letters with a thick pink outline. The text has a pixelated appearance with visible dithering. The icon uses a limited color palette of pink, yellow, orange, cyan, and white. The overall style is retro digital with a low-resolution aesthetic. The text 'carly' is the only visible text element. The icon has no discernible subjects, actions, or objects beyond the text and background patterns. The composition is symmetrical with the text overlapping all four quadrants. The icon's visual elements are consistent across all quadrants with no motion or animation present.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with four colored quadrants and yellow text 'carly' on a pink outline.

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

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806192003471645433063
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • retro digital icon yellow text
  • pixelated icon four quadrants cyan orange
  • low-resolution icon yellow text pink outline
  • yellow text carly pink outline
  • cyan orange yellow pink quadrants
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  • symmetrical pixelated icon text carly

Style

  • pixelated
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  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • carly

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  • pink top-left
  • yellow top-right
  • orange bottom-left
  • cyan bottom-right
  • white dividing lines
  • yellow text
  • pink outline
  • pixelated
  • checkerboard patterns
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
  • symmetrical composition
  • text 'carly'
  • subtle dithering
  • limited color palette
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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
200806192003471645433063
Archive entry
200806192003471645433063.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 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

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