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Four pixelated buddy icons arranged in a , each with distinct color schemes and text elements

Four pixelated buddy icons arranged in a , each with distinct color schemes and text elements. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four distinct sections
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Top-left: pink background with overlapping green and light pink circles; black vertical bar on left edge. Top-right: black background with large pink circles; white 'Love' text with black outline. Bottom-left: brown background with cyan, pink, and teal circles; white 'SHOESS' text at bottom. Bottom-right: white background with yellow and cyan circles; black '<3' symbol with white fill.

Description

  • Four pixelated buddy icons arranged in a , each with distinct color schemes and text elements

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink green circles
  • Love black background
  • SHOESS brown background
  • <3 yellow cyan circles

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four pixelated buddy icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with distinct color schemes and text elements.
  • quarantined style: 2x2 grid layout

Visible Text

  • Love
  • SHOESS
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • SHOESS

Wordwall

  • pink
  • green
  • circles
  • Love
  • black
  • cyan
  • brown
  • <3
  • yellow
  • teal
  • SHOESS
  • white

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081115193324907406309
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
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 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
c1b122903f55b242
SHA-256
c1b122903f55b2427332d13c95e7e986fc0c3d8f736e489fb2cd4ed8a5ae6f80
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 09:05 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000503

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:37 UTC
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1140
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Enrichment records (1)
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Four pixelated buddy icons arranged in a , each with distinct color schemes and text elements

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 09:02 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,201 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 593

Review tags

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  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • pink
  • green
  • black
  • cyan
  • brown
  • yellow
  • teal
  • white

Composition

  • four distinct sections
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Top-left: pink background with overlapping green and light pink circles; black vertical bar on left edge. Top-right: black background with large pink circles; white 'Love' text with black outline. Bottom-left: brown background with cyan, pink, and teal circles; white 'SHOESS' text at bottom. Bottom-right: white background with yellow and cyan circles; black '<3' symbol with white fill.

Description

  • Four pixelated buddy icons arranged in a , each with distinct color schemes and text elements

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink green circles
  • Love black background
  • SHOESS brown background
  • <3 yellow cyan circles

Objects

  • circles
  • text elements

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four pixelated buddy icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with distinct color schemes and text elements.
  • quarantined style: 2x2 grid layout

Style

  • pixelated

Subjects

  • circles
  • text symbols

Visible Text

  • Love
  • SHOESS
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • SHOESS

Wordwall

  • pink
  • green
  • circles
  • Love
  • black
  • cyan
  • brown
  • <3
  • yellow
  • teal
  • SHOESS
  • white
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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
20081115193324907406309
Archive entry
20081115193324907406309.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#20081115193324907406309.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081115193324907406309.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016