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Two side-by-side pixelated apple icons with glowing outlines and yellow text above each, one labeled 'glowy' and the other 'apple'.

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Two side-by-side pixelated apple icons with glowing outlines and yellow text above each, one labeled 'glowy' and the other 'apple'.

Two side-by-side pixelated apple icons with glowing outlines and yellow text above each, one labeled 'glowy' and the other 'apple'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Composition

  • two icons side-by-side
  • text above icons
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Two pixelated apple icons with a light blue body, dark blue bite mark, and a small green circular center. Each icon has a glowing orange outline. The left icon has yellow text 'glowy' above it; the right icon has yellow text 'apple' above it. Both icons have a single dark blue leaf at the top. The background is a solid light gray. The icons are identical in shape and color except for the text above them.

Description

  • Two side-by-side pixelated apple icons with glowing outlines and yellow text above each, one labeled 'glowy' and the other 'apple'.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • glowy apple icon
  • apple icon with glowing outline
  • pixelated apple icon yellow text
  • glowing apple icon light blue

Visible Text

  • glowy
  • apple

Wordwall

  • apple icon
  • glowing outline
  • yellow text
  • light blue body
  • green center
  • orange glow
  • dark blue leaf
  • light gray background
  • pixelated
  • text 'glowy'
  • text 'apple'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708151139511967632019
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c6/c6353f8bc444197bd05f86835e2f062f8399666fcd790b7813c02bc0247f2143.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
c6353f8bc444197b
SHA-256
c6353f8bc444197bd05f86835e2f062f8399666fcd790b7813c02bc0247f2143
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Assessed
July 25, 2026 at 00:19 UTC
Run
1187
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall score
0.000562

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July 23, 2026 at 19:40 UTC
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Two side-by-side pixelated apple icons with glowing outlines and yellow text above each, one labeled 'glowy' and the other 'apple'.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 00:00 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,791 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 671

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • apple icon (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • dark blue
  • green
  • orange
  • yellow
  • light gray

Composition

  • two icons side-by-side
  • text above icons
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Two pixelated apple icons with a light blue body, dark blue bite mark, and a small green circular center. Each icon has a glowing orange outline. The left icon has yellow text 'glowy' above it; the right icon has yellow text 'apple' above it. Both icons have a single dark blue leaf at the top. The background is a solid light gray. The icons are identical in shape and color except for the text above them.

Description

  • Two side-by-side pixelated apple icons with glowing outlines and yellow text above each, one labeled 'glowy' and the other 'apple'.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • glowy apple icon
  • apple icon with glowing outline
  • pixelated apple icon yellow text
  • glowing apple icon light blue

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • apple icon

Visible Text

  • glowy
  • apple

Wordwall

  • apple icon
  • glowing outline
  • yellow text
  • light blue body
  • green center
  • orange glow
  • dark blue leaf
  • light gray background
  • pixelated
  • text 'glowy'
  • text 'apple'
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:44 UTC
Run
52
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)
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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
200708151139511967632019
Archive entry
200708151139511967632019.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#200708151139511967632019.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708151139511967632019.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016